The children of the baby-boomers are currently entering their 40s, which creates a secondary bulge at the middle-manager level of Japanese business.
生育高峰期出生的一代,他们的孩子也快步入40多岁的年龄段,这就造成了日本企业的中层管理者再次膨胀。
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Now that her daughter is attending private boarding school, being groomed for entrance exams for an elite junior high school, Chen has gone back to work as a middlemanager in an oil company.
But as the story unfolds, it transpires that his skills as a middlemanager are less relevant at board level and his general popularity disguised his less demanding attitude towards team members.