Japanese bosses are mostly an elderly lot.
●So it seemed that a new
generation
had taken the
reins of
corporate Japan
when Kosaku Shima was
appointed president of Hatsushiba Goyo,
a conglomerate, in June.
At just 60, Mr Shima
is the best known and most beloved businessman in Japan.
His ascen
t from lowly salaryman
to
lofty shacho (president) traces
corporate Japan’s rise in the 1980s,
its
descent into the “lost decade” of the 1990s
and its
subsequent
tentative recovery.
News of Mr Shima’s
appointment was broadcast on television
and splashed across the country’s newspapers,
and the bosses of Japan’s biggest firms
lined up to
lavish
praise on him.
“He is a man of principle.,”
said Tsunehisa Katsumata, president of Tokyo Electric Power.
Part of Mr Shima’s appeal,
in
addition
to his timelessly youthful looks,
is his respect for the Japanese
virtues of hard work,
self-
sacrifice,
loyalty and
modesty.
“My position is a result of the support
of the people around me,”
he said when he was named to the post.
Despite his
modesty,
Mr Shima has been the subject of two television series and a film.
He
endorses snacks and beer,
so that pictures of him,
perpetually raising a glass,
are
plastered across Japan. Ladies cannot help but throw themselves before him.
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