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Rising Sun by Michael Crichton
Reader Reviews Riveting, informative, September 10, 2003 Reviewer: deepbits from Bangalore, India A beautiful young call girl is murdered in the corporate boardroom of Nakamoto Towers in Los Angeles, during a gala event of the Japanese giant company - Nakamoto. The incident is embarassing to the conservative Japanese people because of its sexual connotations and they try to hush up the matter! This intriguing incident sets the stage for the book, a descriptive view of the Japanese way of working, their corporate culture, their business tactics. The opening is reveting, the reader is kept on the edge of the seat - and then slowly Crichton reveals the actual theme behind the story. This tactic by Crichton is a sure winner to grab the attention of his reader. He then consolidates the attention with a saga of the stark dark world of business dealings. Little was known about Japan's corporate culture when this book came out. It was also the time when Japanese domination of the world economics had started. The Japanese looked like simple, docile people at home, but at business it came down to "Anything fair in business, business is war". The book also brings out the differences in the Japanese style of working and the American style. Americans are more forthcoming and outright in projecting their view on things. Japanese, on the reverse side, are more secretive, tightlipped about their collaborations, strategies - the inherent belligerence within, gets masked by the placid exterior!!! This book is definitely a winner... well researched, it gives oodles of insight into a highly successful country's working strategies. Intelligently interwoven with a murder mystery and set in the background of a thriller, even heavy topics like business and economics sink in with effortless ease. The book makes interesting reading (though a little outdated for the present times) and I definitely recommend it to all. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition
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