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the initial three chapters. The remaining chapters include the author's analysis: the differing management systems and employment cultures of the
Japanese and British people, relations between men and women, and the employees' navigation of the two different environments, described by Sakai as "floating identities between two imaginary worlds".
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wrote that according to the book, "in spite of the impression of borderless capitalism, Japanese and
British bankers continue to look at each other from their own culturally conditioned perspectives, and that the so-called new international finance business is after all very culturally bound up with
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Japanese involvement in international finance in the 1970s through the 1990s, as well as interviews with specific individuals involved in the Japanese banking industry. The author discusses the Japanese banking community in London and her research methods in
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stated that the book's audience includes persons interested in cultural and social studies and persons who are interested in business. She wrote that "the intrinsic value of this work lies in providing an insight into how both
British and Japanese talk about their working lives, and how their views
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and "howlers", resulting in something that appears to be "a lightly edited Ph.D. thesis whose author uses the
English language as a distinctly foreign tongue" instead of "a finished volume written by a native speaker of English". Mathews also criticised some theorising, the
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Her book has a strong emphasis on the interviews, which detail the life stories of the subjects, and the book uses the point of view of the interviewees. Sakai interviewed over 100 employees of London offices of
Japanese banks. The male Japanese employees included
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Mathews stated that the statements by the interview subjects were "highly thought-provoking" and that "The research upon which this book is based seems solid". Mathews stated that the book's largest weakness was mistakes in the
English language, including
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