false 388929 1 Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveler&#151;hitchhiking in Istanbul, trekking in Patagonia, crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986, he closed the door on his life of adventure to settle in Japan. And then, in a breathtaking transition, he joined Mitsubishi as a "Salaryman"&#151;a guy in a shiny suit with a shiny attaché case in a multinational corporation with 100,000 employees. What led to this extraordinary shift of direction, and why, despite the disillusionment, is it so hard to leave? In <b>The Blue-Eyed Salaryman</b>, Murtagh takes the reader behind the scenes of this huge conglomerate. By turn enlightening, astonishing, and hilarious, his book offers a fresh perspective on the nature of Japanese business culture as well as the many hurdles awaiting the outsider. 378548 1 2 2006 Blue-Eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi total:19|5:3|4:7|3:9| 19 70 30 3 3 0 false false Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 09 19:58:14 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 11 22:04:21 -0700 2008
Niall's take on Japanese university and then work was very interesting. I al...more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 04:43:44 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 04:45:10 -0700 2007 The Accidental Office Lady.

A frog in a well knows not the ocean indeed, really made me think of Japan in general.

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