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Title: Labor Pains and the Gaijin Boss by Thomas J Nevins ISBN: 4-7890-0250-0 Publisher: Japan Times Japan Format: Paperback

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Average Customer Rating: 1 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: FRANKLY VERY WIERD
Comment: If you are thinking of starting up a company in Japan then I can recommend that you do NOT read this book. Beside saving you from a soporific experience bar none, you will also be doing yourself a favour in that you will be spared, what can only be called, some of the most bizarre prose I have read.
Main problems are as follows:

1) Information is incredibly dated. Even some of the references to Japanese labour law are not on the books anymore. It looks like this guy does not get out at all in Japanese society or business.

2) The general thrust of the book can send a gullible manager down the wrong road. References to labour unions and the Shuto "Spring Offensive" wage push may have been relevant up to the 1980s. But the society is changing faster than that, although its author (who it is rumoured, refuses to use email and does not know how to type) apparently is either unaware of, or does not care....

3) The writing style is frankly wierd. It appears to be written for the reading comprehension of a 10 year old. It also panders to the notion that all foreigners are fresh off the plane and that Tom Nevins, holy guru to the uninitiated, will help navigate the hapless foreigner through the maze, introducing the "bizaare" and beguiling Japanese. Again, that may have applied 20 yrs ago, but it surely does not apply today. Almost all foreign execs are savvy enough to know about this before they land. Japan is no longer a foreign country, but more and more a part of growing international environment.

4) He obviously needs (a new?) editor! About 3/4 s of this book is useless or repeats itself unneccessarily. This should rule the book out by itself.

I am pretty sure that this book's manuscript would never be bought by a publishing house that wanted to make money --- ergo is was not bought by a publishing house! Vanity press keeps this dust-coated icon of old Japan in circulation. Its rather nacissistic view of everything cloaks the author in a skin of what can only be called, extremely old and, frankly corny ideas (does this guy live in Japan and actually work with Japanese corporations? --- obviously not for a long time!), which have not been subjected to the coarse light of critisism.

All of the information in this book can be more easily, and less painfully gleaned from other, better written books, most published by the respective Japanese ministries -- all of them available on the internet!

This books floats around in the odd second hand store and is now, wholly an effort of vanity press. With a little luck it may be completely out of print.

Rating: 1
Summary: VAIN AND OUT OF CONTACT WITH JA_PANESE WORLD
Comment: If you are thinking of starting up a company in Japan then I can recommend that you do NOT read this book. Beside saving you from a soporific experience bar none, you will also be doing yourself a favour in that you will be spared, what can only be called, some of the most bizarre prose I have read.

Main problems are as follows:

1) Information is incredibly dated. Even some of the references to Japanese labour law are not on the books anymore.

2) the general thrust of the book can send a gullible manager down the wrong road. References to labour unions and the Shuto "Spring Offensive" wage push may have been relevant up to the 1980s. But the society is changing faster than that although its author (who it is rumoured, refuses to use email and does not know how to type) apparently is either unaware of, or does not care....

3) The writing style is frankly wierd and panders to the notion that all foreigners are fresh off the plane and that Tom Nevins, holy guru to the uninitiated, will help navigate the hapless foreigner through the maze of and introduce the "bizaare" and beguiling Japanese. Again that may have applied 20 yrs ago, but it surely does not apply today. Almost all foreign execs are savvy enough to know about this before they land. Japan is no longer a foreign country, but more and more a part of growing international environment.

4) He obviously needs (a new?) editor! About 3/4 s of this book is useless or repeats itself unneccessarily. This should rule the book out by itself.

In sum I am pretty sure that this book's manuscript would never be bought by a publishing house that wanted to make money. Vanity press keeps this dust coated icon of old Japan in circulation. Its rather nacissistic view of everything cloaks the author in a skin of what can only be called, extremely old and, frankly corny ideas (does this guy live in Japan and actually work with Japanese corporations?), which have not been subjected to the coarse light of critisism.

All of the useful information in this book can be more easily, and less painfully gleaned from other, better written books, most published by the respective Japanese ministries -- all of them available on the internet!

This books floats around in the odd second hand store and is now, wholly an effort of vanity press. With a little luck it may be completely out of print.