The Way Of The Osaka Loan Shark

(from ebookjapan): **”i will become the best financier in osaka!”** tatsuyuki haibara, unemployed after his company went bankrupt, decides that finance is his true calling and goes to work as a salesman for the finance company teikoku kinyu (imperial finance). however, it is not a sweet job, and haibara is confronted with various human dramas and underworld situations related to money, such as a woman who became a soap opera star by shouldering a debt, a man who got involved in fraud, and a confrontation with an underworld moneylender… the story is set in osaka, the commercial capital of japan, and is the first in a series of osaka finance manga! — – **won the kodansha manga award for general manga in 1992** – **won the osamu tezuka excellence award in 1997**