The focus of this volume is masculinity '¬ ; specifically corporate masculinity '¬ ; in Japan. There is a considerable body of literature on Japanese corporate culture, both in Japanese and English. Some of this literature has started acknowledging the role gender plays within corporate culture. However, the focus in these studies has almost exclusively been on women within the Japanese workplace. This will be one of the first monographs in English to focus on the men within Japanese corporate culture through a lens of gender. Given the important role Japanese corporate culture has played in Japan'¬"s emergence as an industrial power, the research in this volume offers a new way of looking both at Japanese business culture, and more generally at important changes in Japanese society in recent years.