A novel of the human drama surrounding the management of a supermarket chain at a time when the phenomenon of supermarkets, imported postwar from the US, was just taking hold in 1960s and 1970s Japan. Supermarket covers cultural transitions such as social and economic change from mom-and-pop groceries to early Wal-martization, the emergence of an Enron-like cooking of books scenario; the oil shock of the early seventies; pre-bubble merger-and-acquisitions fever; dysfunction, backstabbing, and factions that seem like Japanese political parties; the big boys and the little guys; the beginnings of today’s high-end Japanese commerce; and a peak into social mores of the time (including a homosexual love suicide). It's theme, the single-minded focus on business to the exclusion of life at its peripheries, is something all cultures can identify with.
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