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The seven "business novels" translated in this collection represent a genre in Japan, "keizai-shosetsu", that is extremely popular among Japanese businessmen, their wives, students, and other professionals. It is aimed at students and business counterparts in the West.

This book gives an insider's account of Japanese labor management. Its fictional narrative opens as a quasi-mystery with a television newscast reporting on a 400 million yen embezzlement by a chief accountant. Within this framework the novel charts the relationship between the store's labor union and its top management which is in cahoots with a governmental politician.