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Shura no Hitsugi

Shura no Hitsugi

MysteryDramaJosei

Tokyo, September, 1971. The bodies of a wealthy couple, Rintaro Oki and his wife Junko, are found in their house. At first, police suspect that Oki's nephew Takahiro is the criminal, but a friend of him, Akihito Sugiura, gives him an alibi. After that it's concluded that Oki's driver Shuuji Tazawa is the criminal. Tazawa will commit suicide one week later and the case is closed. Thirty-three years later, December 2004, Hoshi Sugiura is engaged to the receptionist of the company, Keiko. Later, a happy Hoshi comes from the blessing party to home and discovers his father Akihito hanging corpse. Police concludes that he committed suicide. Hoshi recalls his father having said the morning of that day something about reading an old diary. The content of the diary tell the story of how he gave an alibi to Takahiro concerning a crime in the house of a married couple 33 years ago. When Hoshi question a friend of his father, who came to make a visit of condolence, closely about that incident, he advice him to forget it if he want to be happy. Later he receive a phone call from his fiance shouting "Help." He goes quickly to her house and find her near dead after being assaulted. Hoshi thought the cause of his father's death is related to that past crime and begins to examine that time newspapers in the library. He obtain proofs that his father's death is a murder and is determined to expose the crime. He receive a threatening call and later is abducted receiving a brutal assault from yakuza henchmen, his male function being lost as consequence. One year later, November 2005. Hechmen of the yakuza's Kuroishi clan gets killed by a beautiful woman, and a butterfly's specimen is left near the bodies. Hoshi is now living in the house of Keiko, a transvestite that helped him after the assault, and lives as a woman by the name of Kaoru. The revenge of Hoshi is just starting. (Source: MU)

Manga Nihon Keizai Nyuumon

Manga Nihon Keizai Nyuumon

HistoricalSlice of Life

They are burning Japanese cars in Detroit. The top management at Toyosan Motors must decide whether to begin offshore production of its cars in the U.S. But our hero Mr. Kudo fears that offshore production will devastate the numerous local subcontractors of Toyosan, leading to a hollowing out of the auto industry in Japan, leaving only a financial shell. The American color TV industry has already suffered such a fate. The villain, Mr. Tsugawa, calls Kudo a wimp and sees a splendid opportunity for union busting. Will our hero prevail? Thus begins the first episode of this rollicking yet incisive introduction to the world economy from the Japanese point of view. Other episodes treat the appreciation of the yen, the impact of the 1970s oil shocks, deficit financing, the internationalization of business and banking, and the post-industrial future of Japan and the Pacific Rim. The book is an English edition of volume 1 of Manga Nihon Keizai Nyumon, originally published in 1986 by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the Japanese equivalent of the Wall Street Journal. It is based on a serious introductory text put out by the newspaper and is packed with informative charts and facts. When the comic book was first published in Japan, it was an immediate best-seller, selling over 550,000 copies in less than a year. The stories in the book reflect Japan's national mood during the "Japanese miracle" and into the 1980s economic bubble: apprehension and optimism jostle one another, and there is a sense of national self-pity. The book also reflects a deep suspicion of politics and bureaucrats. The prime minister appears more worried about his government's popularity than about taking the right economic course. Ultimately, the employees at Toyosan Motors demonstrate that the success of the Japanese economy will not depend on natural resources or politics but on business practices that are ethical, socially responsible, and forward-looking (Source: University of California Press)