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If you look from a global perspective, Japan is a country with few differences in income and education opportunities. The literacy rate of Japanese is high, and reading is common practice among many people, despite the necessity of understanding a variety of readings for each of the more than 2,500 kanji it takes to read a newspaper.

There is a category of books whose number of publications is greatly expanding, excluding comic books. These are “Shinsho” or small-sized paperbacks. More than 1,500 Shinsho are published in a year, and the number tends to increase year after year. Shinsho occupy a big shelf area at bookstores and are loved by students, office workers, business managers, housewives and the retired elderly.

The fields covered by Shinsho are a wide variety of subjects including history, sociology, psychology and philosophy, not to mention political economy; and the authors are a wide range of experts in the covered fields, led by university professors. But, as for the writing, it is commonly plain and easy to understand.

This book features the introductions of 126 books published in 2016 which were selected from Shinsho and categorized as politics according to the library classification, then translated into English.

Even among expats who are long time residents in Japan and who are well inversed in Japanese conversation, only a very few people are known to have a fascination of Shinsho.

With the English introductions of these books, please try to look into the fruitful fertility of the intellectual world of Shinsho.

中小零細企業の経営に深く関わり、その企業・その経営者・その場面ごとに的確で厳しさと優しさを両方備えた指導をし続けてきた部奈壮一先生。独特の関西弁の語りは有名で多くのファンを魅了し続けてきました。

部奈先生の監修の下、部奈先生の後継者育成連続セミナーを企画運営していた中小零細企業診断士市川正人が、父の経営する中小零細企業の後継者となった主人公、元大手ゼネコン営業管理者永池英樹の体験を描きます。

大手企業の経営を描く多くのビジネス誌やビジネス書では知りえない中小零細企業経営のエッセンスが主人公の体験を通してどんどんわかる。中小零細企業の経営に携わる方や、関心がある方には必読の書。