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Out of Ordinal
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Publisher Price: $29.99
Publisher: Making a Way Writing Services LLC
Published: Jan 5 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Born in a centuries-old Zen temple in Tokyo, Kiyoshi Hamada came of age amid war, tradition, and the quiet discipline of Zen. His childhood unfolded against air raids, scarcity, and the moral upheaval of postwar Japan, shaping an early confrontation with questions of purpose, meaning, and the soul.
As Japan rebuilt, so did Kiyoshi. His determination carried him through elite schools and into the halls of Toshiba, where he built a distinguished career that eventually brought him to New York to help establish the company's first U.S. office. Yet behind his professional ascent lay a deeper struggle: navigating rigid corporate culture, confronting mismanagement from within, and choosing personal principle over promised security.
Out of Ordinal traces an uncommon path from temple rituals to boardroom negotiations, from cultural obligation to individual conviction. With clarity and humility, Hamada reflects on the forces that shape a life: discipline and ambition, conformity and conscience, resilience and restraint.
This memoir offers a firsthand account of Japan's modern history through the eyes of someone who lived its transformation from wartime devastation to global economic power and who witnessed both the extraordinary achievements and internal failures of one of its most iconic corporations.
At once personal and reflective, Out of Ordinal is a meditation on integrity, self-determination, and what it truly means to live and lead with purpose.
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