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.3.5 stars. I must say, I was really surprised by this book. I work for a Japanese company here in Vancouver and I have noticed that my Japanese co-workers have to adhere to different standards and rules from the rest of us (we don’t question it, what can you do?). It’s been interesting working there because half of my co-workers are Japanese, the other half aren’t.
We’ve had to adapt to each other’s cultures and I think we do so quite well. It does feel like we’re split into two camps and I ha.3.5 stars.
I must say, I was really surprised by this book. I work for a Japanese company here in Vancouver and I have noticed that my Japanese co-workers have to adhere to different standards and rules from the rest of us (we don’t question it, what can you do?). It’s been interesting working there because half of my co-workers are Japanese, the other half aren’t. We’ve had to adapt to each other’s cultures and I think we do so quite well. It does feel like we’re split into two camps and I have often been approached by a Japanese co-worker to say something to the boss, something I can get away with saying as I’m not Japanese. So because of my experiences working with the Japanese, and talking to them about corporate culture in Japan, I shouldn’t have been too shocked by the content of this book but I was.
Yumimoto Corporation sounds like hell to me and I felt sorry, for the most part, for Amelie, the Belgian girl who works there and quickly gets on the bad side of her female co-worker, who is villainous but feels the need to be as she is a woman working in a male-dominated world. I’m still not completely convinced by Amelie though. She was born in Japan, lived there until she was 5 years old, yet when she moves back to Japan, she seems to have accepted the Japanese corporate life way too easily.
As a westerner, Amelie is used to taking the initiative. That doesn’t fly in Japan, apparently. She becomes a total pushover. It doesn’t sound plausible that a western woman would do that without a fight. This book was meant to be satirical. Not that I found too much of it funny, it was more sad than anything.
And I was surprised by the comments Nothomb made about Japanese society, how there’s only two ways out for women; marriage or suicide. I found that a bit harsh. It was weird because on one hand she loves Japanese culture, on the other hand she is so scathing of it.
I realize I’ve gone off topic and I’m not talking so much about the book now. Well, I did like the book. It was a quick read and Nothomb does have a graceful writing style.
However, a few things didn’t sit right with me. My Japanese friend Yukie said I had to read this if I wanted to understand how a Japanese job worked. And indeed I do feel I have a great deal more insight into it!
Rule number 1: NEVER take initiative for anything you're not supposed to take initiative for. The heroine finds this out the hard way.
She's just started working for this Japanese company. She speaks fluent Japanese, French and English, so of course, like any Westerner, she's looking for an opportunity to impress her new bosses. A col My Japanese friend Yukie said I had to read this if I wanted to understand how a Japanese job worked. And indeed I do feel I have a great deal more insight into it! Rule number 1: NEVER take initiative for anything you're not supposed to take initiative for. The heroine finds this out the hard way. She's just started working for this Japanese company.
She speaks fluent Japanese, French and English, so of course, like any Westerner, she's looking for an opportunity to impress her new bosses. A colleague goes off on vacation, there's a piece of work that's been left hanging which requires knowledge of French, and she sees her chance. Not only does she get no praise; she, and the misguided person who helped her, are suddenly in huge trouble. But she still doesn't understand how things work, and makes one mistake after another, being moved further down the ladder each time. In the end, her job consists of changing the toilet paper in the men's room. The book is supposed to be based on the author's experiences when working in Japan, and is quite funny. I started reading it on a transatlantic flight, and had finished before I arrived.
Strongly recommended if you're interested in Japan and the Japanese. Japan sure brings out the bonkers in everybody, doesn’t it. (Bonkers: a demotic English term meaning crazy but with the element of horror removed and an extra squirt of I will never understand this in a million years – get me out of this room!) I tried, you may know this already, to get on board with The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. That was a little too eyerollingly cute-weird for me. I had a go with the other Murakami guy (Ryu, not Haruki) and he was really strange. Then there was Natsuo Kirino.
The Japan sure brings out the bonkers in everybody, doesn’t it. (Bonkers: a demotic English term meaning crazy but with the element of horror removed and an extra squirt of I will never understand this in a million years – get me out of this room!) I tried, you may know this already, to get on board with The Wind Up Bird Chronicle. That was a little too eyerollingly cute-weird for me. I had a go with the other Murakami guy (Ryu, not Haruki) and he was really strange. Then there was Natsuo Kirino. The novel was called Grotesque and it really was.
And I must mention a little movie called Love Exposure by Sion Sono. Synopsis: A bizarre love triangle forms between a young Catholic upskirt photographer, a misandric girl and a manipulative cultist. Truly madly deeply bonkers.!! One of my all time favourites. You gotta see Love Exposure! But not with your parents!! So now this tiny novel-memoir which is Japan from a Western point of view.
22 year old Belgian girl gets job with huge Tokyo corporation – and a year of humiliation begins. It’s a little hymn of hatred towards Japan and frankly borderline racist as Amelie Nothomb makes generalization upon generalization about all Japanese people and they’re all profoundly derogatory. Japanese people should sue this book right now. It’s so insulting.
Now I think Amelie is gonna say well can’t you tell I really deep down LOVE Japan and its people. But the experience of reading this is like watching someone wrestling rather too strenuously with their pet dog – who’s a naughty ittle doggy then?
Are You a naughty ittle doggy? Are YOU the NAUGHTIEST NASTIEST MOST ANNOYING ITTLE DOGGY? Yes, you are!! You get the strong impression there’s some genuine aggression in there. I’ll just dish up a quote for you, in case you may think I may be misrepresenting Amelie. Here she is contemplating Japanese company men: Everyone knows that Japan has the highest suicide rate of any country in the world. What surprised me was that suicides were not more common.
What awaited these poor number-crunchers outside The Company? The obligatory beer with colleagues undergoing the same kind of gradual lobotomy, hours spent stuffed into an overcrowded subway, a dozing wife, exhausted children, sleep that sucked them down into it like the vortex of a flushing toilet, the occasional day off they never took full advantage of.
Nothing that deserved to be called a life. Oh and howsabout this: A Japanese person genuinely apologizing happens about once every century. So anyway, it’s a bitter, too-near-the-knuckle-to-be-really-funny memoir (why do they bother to call these things novels?) and I’m most curious to find out What Amelie Did Next. 'Fear and Trembling' embraces the strange with a wicked arsenal of irrational but noble thoughts and actions by the superb heroine.
Her authentic recklessness captivates, no enamours, the reader. I had very strong feelings for this incredible novel because I lived EXACTLY the type of professional downward spiral that all but defeats you. Like a posher (!?!!) precursor to 'The Devil Wears Prada,' the entire plot unravels within the confines of the claustrophobic and limiting Workplace. This is an 'Fear and Trembling' embraces the strange with a wicked arsenal of irrational but noble thoughts and actions by the superb heroine. Her authentic recklessness captivates, no enamours, the reader. I had very strong feelings for this incredible novel because I lived EXACTLY the type of professional downward spiral that all but defeats you.
Like a posher (!?!!) precursor to 'The Devil Wears Prada,' the entire plot unravels within the confines of the claustrophobic and limiting Workplace. This is an ugly child that you want to keep with you forever.
If this were published during the second world war, Amelie Nothomb would have been kidnapped and executed by the Japanese. For reasons I didn't care to research and find out Nothomb, although Belgian by nationality and currently living in Paris, was born in Kobe, Japan. This book is based on her true experiences as a lowly employee in a big Japanese company for one whole year. She had a layer of bosses, all Japanese. Her immediate superior, Miss Mori, was beautiful but petty, malicious, neurotic a If this were published during the second world war, Amelie Nothomb would have been kidnapped and executed by the Japanese.
For reasons I didn't care to research and find out Nothomb, although Belgian by nationality and currently living in Paris, was born in Kobe, Japan. This book is based on her true experiences as a lowly employee in a big Japanese company for one whole year. She had a layer of bosses, all Japanese. Her immediate superior, Miss Mori, was beautiful but petty, malicious, neurotic and vindictive.
Higher to Miss Mori were Messrs. Saito and Omochi, both tyrannical, sadistic brutes. The big boss was Mr. Haneda ('God', Nothomb called him secretly) who was somewhat kind but who didn't care about the bullying being done in the office. Like another executive (Mr. Tenshi), he appeared like a spineless coward, a victim of these strange Japanese concepts of honor and respect for superiors.
Time and again, Nothomb stressed the high suicide rate in the Japanese society, mocking them (so it seemed to me) as employers and as a people as well. Not impelled by racism, I'm sure, for Nothomb really went through hell here. In sum, this writer saying vengeance is mine. Witty, satirical, perceptive and entertaining. And not that long too.
An ideal book to take with you to the gas chamber while waiting for your execution. Or to read while waiting for your wife, or girlfriend, get dressed. Hahahaha - aren't Japanese people strange and weird and their culture is so crazy!!! I didn't enjoy this book. I take issue with anyone portraying Japan as some out-there foreign country.
Having spent a short period of my life living in Japan (a fraction longer than Nothomb did in the book) and I'm the first to acknowledge that it's very different but books like this just add to the misconception that it's some sort of society gone mad. It seems to be one of the last countries where it is accepta Hahahaha - aren't Japanese people strange and weird and their culture is so crazy!!! I didn't enjoy this book. I take issue with anyone portraying Japan as some out-there foreign country. Having spent a short period of my life living in Japan (a fraction longer than Nothomb did in the book) and I'm the first to acknowledge that it's very different but books like this just add to the misconception that it's some sort of society gone mad.
It seems to be one of the last countries where it is acceptable to treat as 'crazy foreign people'. Yes, the culture is very different to Western culture but does that make it fair to arrogantly look at it as wrong? And that's what I didn't like about Fear and Loathing - Nothomb seemed to be taking the high-moral ground as if she kept telling herself 'I might be going down fighting but I'm not the crazy one'.
Yes, it's a mono-culture. 99% of the population are Japanese. It doesn't look favourably an individualism. I remember being told they have a saying which roughly means 'the nail that sticks out gets hammered down'.
It's a country that puts the group/company/others before themselves but by following that logic, others do the same for you and things work. There is also great shame in not doing what society expects of you. But is that really so crazy?
It's a country with low unemployment, the lowest teen pregnancy in the industrial world and low crime. Their poverty rate is lower than the US and UK too.
Yeah, crazy, aren't they??!? I found many things about Japan a little strange but I acknowledge that's because their whole society has a different philosophy to the one I was born into. But it works and for that reason I will always jump to their defence with things like this. I miss many aspects of the country and find the Japanese to be lovely people (though I acknowledge I will always be a foreigner first to them) but the way Nothomb portrayed her time with the Yumimoto company was that of an arrogant young woman who refused to accept that to get by in Japanese culture you need to follow the unwritten social rules. You might not agree with them but if you don't then the problem is with you, not them.
Their society is very different but it works. Oh, and her comparisons in the book to rape are offensive as are some of her comments about Germany and World War II (though one about Belgium and Germany was amusing). I'll stop writing now or I won't stop.
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It gets 2 stars because it was short. A friend lent it to me thinking I'd like it. I'll now be reviewing the friendship.
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“Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time you’re twenty-five, you’ll have good reason to be ashamed’; ‘if you laugh, you won’t look dignified’; ‘if your face betrays your feelings, you’ll look coarse’; ‘if you mention the existence of a single body hair, you’re repulsive’; ‘if a boy kisses you on the cheek in public, you’re a whore’; if you enjoy eating, you’re a pig’; ‘if you take pleasure in sleeping, you’re no better than a cow’; and so on.
These precepts would be merely anecdotal if they weren’t taken so much to heart.” —.
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