An economic essay that explains the institution of the corporation from the ground up and asks how Japanese companies should change as capitalism moves beyond its industrial phase. It reconnects legal personality, employment, shareholder rule, and Japanese capitalism to question the future of work.

Starting from the question of who a company belongs to, the book considers the future of Japanese capitalism.

A lecture-based critical reading of Natsume Soseki’s major works, reconsidering darkness, anxiety, youth, and temperament through Takaaki Yoshimoto’s thought. It traces a path between Soseki as a national writer and Soseki as an inward, troubled figure.

Through Soseki’s novels, the book rereads the anxieties of modern Japan and the writer’s temperament.