Pacific rift - Michael Lewis

This light-hearted look at business relations between Japan and the West follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants - Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo, and Shuji Tomikawa, a Harvard-educated Japanese working for Mitsui Real Estate in New York City.
Through his meetings with these men, the author is able to draw some surprising conclusions about current Japanese business practices, both in relation to foreigners attempting to trade with them, and in terms of their own headlong rush into overseas markets, from the Ginza bars of Tokyo to the wino gangs of Times Square.

Michael Lewis is a former banker who worked at Salamon Brothers in the height of Eighties boom.
He writes regularly as a journalist and is the author of several books, including the international bestseller, LIAR'S POKER.

Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books including the international bestseller, Liar's Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. Lewis is contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio magazine. He is married with three children.

Praise for LIAR'S POKER: 'An amazing book, readable, funny and mind-boggling ... one of the great business books of all time'
Punch

Read all about it: headlong greed, inarticulate obscenity, Animal House horseplay . . .
The Sunday Times

Immense verve and wit
20/20 Magazine

A highly immoral book
Daily Mail

Wickedly funny
Daily Express

As traders would say, this book is a buy
Financial Times