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Hatsushiba Electric president Kiichi Nakazawa, who has been Shima’s mentor since Nakazawa was Shima’s boss in the sales division, transfers Shima to Hatsushiba Trading, the firm’s affiliate, to keep Shima from being involved in a factional power struggle that seems sure to erupt within the company when Nakazawa resigns from his post. Shima starts off as the representative executive director, making a deal with a wine producer in France. He flies between Japan, France and England to find the best wine and to sell cases at the best price possible. As always, Shima gets help from various attractive women – his subordinate Kumiko, with whom he has had a long, ongoing affair; Kumiko’s mother, who has a broad network of rich people around the world; and a mysterious hostess at a cosy Shinjuku bar who knows who’s who in the wine business. (Source: The Star).
Kosaku Shima depicts the life of Kosaku Shima, a salaryman, a Japanese white-collar worker who devotes his life to his company. The fictional conglomerate is modeled after Panasonic, or Matsushita Electric, where Hirokane worked before and is highly accurate in its portrayal of Japanese corporate culture.
Manga about detective Nanase Gorou, 25. He works in a private detective agency and solves many complicated cases. Not only criminal ones, but social ones as well. *Note: \- The chapter count includes 2 non-numbered chapters in volume 24.* \- Includes the one-shot "Mirai-hen: Kanata Yori Ai wo Komete (未来編 彼方より愛をこめて)" \- Includes the story "Harinezumi Kouyuuroku (ハリネズミ交遊録)", 17 chapters \- Includes the story "Roppongi Shinjuu (六本木心中)", 2 chapters
Kosaku Shima is appointed as the director in charge of Hatsushiba Shanghai. China is a fierce battleground for consumer electronics manufacturers from all over the world. This ambitious story clearly depicts the “modern” China, with its language and cultural barriers and deep-rooted anti-Japanese sentiment, through the eyes of Kosaku Shima, who maintains his style even in a new country! (Source: Kodansha, translated)
Another chapter in the ongoing saga of Salaryman Shima Kousaku. In this story about Hatsushiba Electric Company Salaryman Shima Kousaku, a new position sends Kousaku on trips all around the world, beginning with New York. But wherever he goes, nothing is ever simple. Even on a business trip, things don't always stay professional and even terrorist incidents strike close to home. Still, through it all, he does his best for Hatsushiba Electric and continues to rise above it all.
Another story from the saga of Salaryman Shima Kousaku of the Hatsushiba Electric Company. This time Kousaku finds himself working at Hatsushiba's Chinese division, and, as usual, nothing is going smoothly. His superiors have different and incompatible ideas, romantic entanglements are complicated, he can't go to the video store without finding a ripoff of the latest Japanese video games, and political protests threaten to severely disrupt Hatsushiba's operations. Through it all, Kousaku keeps his head high and somehow manages to work for the company and retain human dignity.
