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“Thoroughly entertaining…Astute”

– The Japan Times

Naps during meetings, secret bank accounts and wise office sake masters…A Tokyo American spends a decade in the salaryman trenches.

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THE SALARYMAN SERIES

THE SALARYMAN (book edition)

Book is available in paperback and eBook formats.

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THE SALARYMAN (manga edition)

Short eBook comic based on the book.

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日本の漫画

アメリカン サラリーマン (漫画) 

本に基づく短い電子ブック漫画エピソード。

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BOOK REVIEWS

“Thoroughly entertaining…astute…A true insider’s look at corporate Japan.”
The Japan Times
“Fun, digestible and relatable”
Tokyo Weekender
“Excellent portrayal of just how shocking culture shock can be”
Rochelle Kopp, Author of more than 30 Japan books
“Made me laugh out loud…exposing the underside of Japanese business”
Japan Intercultural Consulting
“An excellent read”
Japan Insider
“Introduces the average salaryman life in a comic, interesting and entertaining way”
Books on Asia
“Exhilarating, funny, yet very insightful take on Japan”
Sumie Kawakami, Author of Goodbye Madame Butterfly

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TOKYO HUSTLE

It’s 2010 and the Japanese economy reels from the Great Recession. Unemployed Tokyo American Bill Smaha lands a job at Spotronics Japan, the local office of a U.S. microchip manufacturer, and is thrown into a baffling white-collar life: married colleagues use secret bank accounts to fund their nightlives, managers create projects out of boredom and execs are on the take. Hard-core salaryman Hiro Osaka takes Bill under his wing and soon both are assigned to a shady subsidiary company. As signs of corporate misdeeds emerge, Bill faces an identity crisis: is he a loyal salaryman, or an American whistleblower? 

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Meet Michael Thuresson

Author of books, manga and more

Michael Thuresson is based in Tokyo and hails from Chicago. He was a journalist in Los Angeles before he moved to Japan and became a Tokyo white-collar warrior in 2008. His first book, The Salaryman, was the result of that experience.

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