[lbo-talk] Das Kapital in Japan

[John E. Norem]

When Karl Marx alerted economists to the “the knell of capitalist 
private property” he probably didn’t imagine the phrase cropping-up as a 
speech bubble in a comic strip for Japanese commuters.

But across the world’s second biggest economy, bookstores from Hiroshima 
to Hokkaido are preparing for what they expect to be the publishing 
phenomenon of the year: Das Kapital – the manga version.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/japan/article5175853.ece