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Ebook About 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 life after the corporation, giving fresh perspectives on the nature of Japanese business culture and the problems faced by outsiders in Japan.Book Blue Eyed Salaryman: From world traveller to lifer at Mitsubishi Review :
This book provides a rare outsider's perspective of the inner workings of Mitsubishi Electric (ME), one of the core companies of the Mitsubishi Group (one of Japan's largest industrial conglomerates or keiretsu). The author is an astute Irishman who, eager to exchange his rootless existence as an itinerant globe trotter for a settled lifestyle anchored by stable employment, received his doctorate in computer science from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1990 during the apogee of Japan's economic bubble and subsequently began full time work at a ME corporate research laboratory in Kanagawa prefecture near Yokohama (south of Tokyo) originally as a temporary employee before being promoted to a manager role ("KS" as he refers to it, or shukan in Japanese) with guarantee of permanent lifetime employment (perhaps the first foreigner ever to achieve such status at ME; no doubt an impressive accomplishment). It should be emphasized that the hiring and promotion of foreigners by such large companies in Japan in the early 1990s was no accident: it was a direct response to the intense international pressure from the West that Japan was facing due to its large trade imbalances and the perceived lack of internalization/openness of Japan's society and business culture. The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) was directly involved in promoting government-led efforts within large companies to hire more foreign employees.The writing style is light and humorous and involves an anecdotal survey of the author's quotidian routines as a typical salaryman: packed train commutes during rush hour, ritual morning exercise drills and pep rallies, lunchtime at the canteen with chain queuing/seating, the constant sound of chimes throughout the working day indicating when to take a break or when the official workday is over and when overtime has begun, after-work drinking parties (known as nomikai or konpa), etc. The author also describes various formal company procedures such as abrupt transfers/relocations (tenkin), working with the labor union, having to submit weekly task summaries, annual health checkups (where a diagnostic machine malfunctions when presented with blue eyes), etc. The author uses fake names to conceal the real identities of colleagues but the Japanese terms that he uses are telling: Erai-sensei (the dignified professor), Kibishi-san (mr. strict), Watanabe/Wanabe (mr. wannabe), Katai-san (mr. hard/rigid), Nonbiri-san (mr. relaxed/chill), etc. The author is proficient in reading/writing Japanese (no doubt after much self exertion) and sufficiently in tune with the cultural surroundings that he is generally treated as a "regular" employee by colleagues and managers although he does point out several employees who nevertheless shy away from dealing with a foreigner entirely.Yet, for all the amusing tales of life as a white Westerner in a traditional Japanese company, what stands out in this story is the unraveling of the author's 14-year career at ME due in part to his realization that unlike other colleagues of similar rank/seniority he cannot rise up in the ranks of management. Also, the author's decision to finally call it quits is exacerbated by the increasingly acrimonious relationship with his boss Katai-san in Osaka who insidiously derides his English and refuses to have the company pay for him to take a night class (unlike his other Japanese colleagues). It turns out there is indeed a limit to how much indignities someone, even with the author's patient temperament and accommodating personality, is willing to endure in a stifling and rigid workplace environment. Unfortunately, the indignities are not confined to just the workplace: the author is harassed by a policeman demanding to see his passport while asking for directions, informed by a landlord of company property that someone (like his father in law) needs to act as his guarantor, and relegated to the thankless task of translating documents for his colleagues outside of his official responsibilities. (These are experiences that any long term foreign resident of Japan is familiar with.) Strangely enough, though written in 2005, the author advises that it is better for foreigners interested in working at Japanese companies to follow the example of Carlos Ghosn and join from the top of the organization rather than from the bottom. (As of May 2020, Carlos Ghosn is an exiled fugitive living in Lebanon with a red notice from Interpol after brazenly fleeing Japan following 13 months of its hostage justice system.) In the Kindle version, the author provides an epilogue to describe life after ME including a port-mortem analysis of his life as a salaryman (topics such as whether a foreigner ought to speak flawless Japanese with colleagues).The author should be commended for his bravery in publishing this book in spite of the potential fallout he risked to his professional career with his former colleagues and employer. He has tried to be critical of corporate Japan using an outsider's perspective and done so in a way that is gracious rather than acrimonious. This book provides a rare insight in English into what working in Japan is actually like from a person who understands and cares about the country's future. Niall Murtagh is an Irishman who came to Japan to study the language. He ended up working for the Mitsubishi corporation for 14 years. Murtagh was a world traveler who did not stay in any one place for to long. So how is it he stayed with one company, a japanese company at that, for 14 years? This book attempts to answer that perplexing question. Though Murtagh has led a varied life, he devotes most of his book to his 14 years with the Mitsubishi Company as a Japanese kaishain, or salaryman.Murtagh rose to a middle-manager position, almost unheard of for any gaijin (foreigner) in a Japanese corporation. He was always the only gaijin in the room. Because his Japanese was flawless he was always looked at askance. The Japanese feel that their language is to difficult for gaijin to learn let alone speak fluently. He tells of his daily commute to work on a bicycle, his unpaid overtime, company uniforms and he even the company song.He says little of his personal life. His courtship and marriage to Miyuki is a good example of this. He sums up this chapter of his life by saying Miyuki's parents approved of their marriage because of his Mitsubishi credentials.Murtagh keeps the story moving in a conversational style. He has an eye for the irony of the cultural differences between the west and the east.I have a friend in Tokyo who is also a salaryman. I got this book for that reason. I wanted to see some of the things that he had to go through. He said that many of the experiences that Murtagh went through are quite common for a gaijin salaryman.It is an entertaining book and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has friends or family working in Japan. And for those of you who don't, it is still an interesting read to compare the cultures. 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