The blue-eyed salaryman : from world traveller to lifer at Mitsubishi

"Niall Murtagh describes the life of a salaryman in detail and with humour. He takes readers behind the scenes of Mitsubishi, showing the peculiar nature of Japanese capitalism and management culture."@en
"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."@en