"Apparel: Rise and Fall, Volume 1" Ryo Kuroki "I want to go to Tokyo!" In 1953, Kiichi Taya, born into a poor farming family in Yamanashi Prefecture, defied his parents' wishes after graduating high school and joined Orient Lady, a small women's clothing manufacturer in Kanda, Tokyo. While ready-made clothing manufacturers were scorned as "destroyers," he rapidly grew the company through extraordinary effort and talent. Riding the wave of high economic growth and the spread of ready-made clothing, the business expanded further—but then what? A long novel vividly depicting the rise and fall of the Japanese economy and the underbelly of the apparel industry. "Apparel: Rise and Fall, Volume 2" Ryo Kuroki Kiichi Taya, who rose to become the president of the women's clothing manufacturer Orient Lady through his extraordinary talent. Now an absolute authority, the situation changes drastically when Murakami, a "corporate raider" who buys up shares and makes relentless demands on management, appears. The battle with Murakami gradually escalates into a major uproar that engulfs all of Japan, questioning "Who owns the company?" A leading economic novelist pursuing realism depicts a grand epic of a giant industry, along with the rise and fall of post-war Japan's economy! #ApparelRiseAndFall #RyoKuroki #Entertainment/Hobbies #Books #Literature/Novels #BOOK #RyoKuroki #Ryo_Kuroki #Books #JapaneseLiterature/Novels/Stories