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Japanese-Style Management: An Insider's Analysis
Book by Hasegawa, Keitaro
162 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1987
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About the author
Keitaro Hasegawa
57 books2 followersHasegawa Keitaro (長谷川海太郎) was an early Shōwa period Japanese translator, and novelist of both fiction and non-fiction work. He wrote under three different pseudonyms, each with his own different voice, personality, and qualities. (Tani Jōji [谷譲次], Hayashi Fubō [林不忘], and Maki Itsuma [牧逸馬].
Keitaro was born in 1900 in Sado Island in the Niigata prefecture. His father was a journalist and he had two brothers, a painter, and the author and translator of Russian literature Shiro Hasegawa.
Keitaro was accepted into Meiji University in Tokyo, but he dropped out in 1918 and traveled to the USA where he worked as a short-order cook to pay for his fees to study at Oberlin College in Ohio. He left college in 1920 to wander the United States. He wanted to see all that he could. He worked his way through South America, Australia, Korea and eventually back to Japan on cargo vessels. He remained in Japan working as a writer for the last decade of his life.
After his return to Japan in 1924-25 Keitaro married Kazuko Katori, who worked as an English translator and he took up the pen name of Tani Jōji (谷譲次) and used the alter-ego to submit stories in the magazines Chūō Kōron (Central Review), and Shin-Shonen (New Youth). Keitaro and his wife lacked money and a steady income at the time, so they rented and lived in a room at the back of a small temple in the Zaimokuza neighborhood of Kamakura, Keitaro also took work as a teacher to make ends meet. eventually, however, his stories took off, particularly his wittier stories based on his adventures and observations in United States. The stories grew into a series called Meriken Jappu. The first volume in this series, Jappu shobai orai (A Jap Businessman's Guide) was published in 1927.
He later took up the personality and pen name of Hayashi Fubō (林不忘), which he used to write semi-historical novels. They were serialized in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and Osaka Shinbun. In his stories, 'Shinpan Ooka Seidan' Which were serialized between 1927-28, he wrote of a one-armed, mono-eyed, nearly superhuman swordsman, Tange. The stories would be instant hits and eventually be adapted to cinema.
In 1928 Keitaro took a sponsored trip around the world with his wife. All he had to do was write essays and stories set in each port of landing. Then6m7y visited fourteen countries, Keitaro took up the pseudonym Maki Itsuma (牧逸馬) during this time, he used his newest alter-ego to write mystery novels and city life novels. He grew a copious female fanbase during this time. His wife also wrote articles about the places they visited during these voyages which were subsequently published in the woman's literary magazine Fujin Koron, or (Women's Review).
Keitaro would sadly die young in 1935 of acute bronchial asthma, just six years after returning to Japan.
Keitaro was born in 1900 in Sado Island in the Niigata prefecture. His father was a journalist and he had two brothers, a painter, and the author and translator of Russian literature Shiro Hasegawa.
Keitaro was accepted into Meiji University in Tokyo, but he dropped out in 1918 and traveled to the USA where he worked as a short-order cook to pay for his fees to study at Oberlin College in Ohio. He left college in 1920 to wander the United States. He wanted to see all that he could. He worked his way through South America, Australia, Korea and eventually back to Japan on cargo vessels. He remained in Japan working as a writer for the last decade of his life.
After his return to Japan in 1924-25 Keitaro married Kazuko Katori, who worked as an English translator and he took up the pen name of Tani Jōji (谷譲次) and used the alter-ego to submit stories in the magazines Chūō Kōron (Central Review), and Shin-Shonen (New Youth). Keitaro and his wife lacked money and a steady income at the time, so they rented and lived in a room at the back of a small temple in the Zaimokuza neighborhood of Kamakura, Keitaro also took work as a teacher to make ends meet. eventually, however, his stories took off, particularly his wittier stories based on his adventures and observations in United States. The stories grew into a series called Meriken Jappu. The first volume in this series, Jappu shobai orai (A Jap Businessman's Guide) was published in 1927.
He later took up the personality and pen name of Hayashi Fubō (林不忘), which he used to write semi-historical novels. They were serialized in the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun and Osaka Shinbun. In his stories, 'Shinpan Ooka Seidan' Which were serialized between 1927-28, he wrote of a one-armed, mono-eyed, nearly superhuman swordsman, Tange. The stories would be instant hits and eventually be adapted to cinema.
In 1928 Keitaro took a sponsored trip around the world with his wife. All he had to do was write essays and stories set in each port of landing. Then6m7y visited fourteen countries, Keitaro took up the pseudonym Maki Itsuma (牧逸馬) during this time, he used his newest alter-ego to write mystery novels and city life novels. He grew a copious female fanbase during this time. His wife also wrote articles about the places they visited during these voyages which were subsequently published in the woman's literary magazine Fujin Koron, or (Women's Review).
Keitaro would sadly die young in 1935 of acute bronchial asthma, just six years after returning to Japan.
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