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1 online resource (337 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; 1 Go ni itte wa, go ni shitagae When you enter the village, obey the village; 2 I no naka no kawazu taikai o shirazu A frog in a well knows not the ocean; 3 Sumeba miyako Wherever you live, it is the capital; 4 Isogaba maware If in a hurry, go the long way round; 5 Ura ni wa ura ga aru Behind the façade is another façade; 6 Nama byoho wa okega no moto Military tactics not carefully planned result in major casualties; 7 Sode suriau mo tasho no en Even a chance meeting is decreed by destiny. |
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8 No aru taka wa tsume o kakusu The hawk with talent hides its talons9 Ju nin to iro Ten men, ten colours; 10 Nana korobi, ya oki Fall down seven times, get up eight; 11 Bimbo hima nashi The poor have no time for leisure; 12 Jishin, kaminari, kaji, oyaji Earthquake, lightning, fire, father; 13 Ame futte ji katamaru The rain falls, the ground hardens; Epilogue; Footnote; Chapter 1. |
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Why on earth would anyone give up a life on the open road for the regimen of a vast Japanese conglomerate? And is it really so different in Japan from everywhere else? Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveller - hitchhiking to Istanbul, bussing to Kathmandu and crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986 he closed the door on his adventurous life and settled down in Japan, eventually joining Mitsubishi as a Salaryman - a man in a shiny suit with a shiny attache case in a conglomerate with 100,000 employees. And what happens when you give up the Salaryman life? The book follows li. |
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Print version record. |
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Murtagh, Niall.
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Murtagh, Niall. (OCoLC)fst01627090
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Irish -- Japan -- Biography.
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Executives -- Japan -- Biography.
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Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1945-
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industrial Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Management Science.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Behavior.
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Executives. (OCoLC)fst00917875
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Irish. (OCoLC)fst00978902
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
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Since 1945
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Print version: Murtagh, Niall. Blue Eyed Salaryman : From world traveller to lifer at Mitsubishi. London : Profile, ©2011 9781861977892 |
| ISBN |
9781847656889 (electronic bk.) |
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1847656889 (electronic bk.) |
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