Kachō Kōsaku Shima

• Ja Kanji — 島耕作 • Ja Romaji — Shima Kōsaku

• Type — manga • Author — Kenshi Hirokane • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Morning • First — 1983 • Volumes — 92

• Title — Series titles • Content — # Kachō Shima Kōsaku (1983–1992, 17 volumes) • Buchō Shima Kōsaku (1992–2002, 13 volumes) • Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku (2002–2005, 8 volumes) • Jōmu Shima Kōsaku (2005–2006, 6 volumes) • Senmu Shima Kōsaku (2006–2008, 5 volumes) • Shachō Shima Kōsaku (2008–2013, 16 volumes) • Kaichō Shima Kōsaku (2013–2019, 13 volumes) • Sōdanyaku Shima Kōsaku (2019–2022, 6 volumes) • Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku (2022–present, 8 volumes)

• Portal — yes Kosaku Shima is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kenshi Hirokane. It depicts the growth and career of a fictional salaryman named Kōsaku Shima. It has been serialized in Kodansha's Morning, starting with the first series Kachō Shima Kōsaku in 1983 and has currently been divided into nine parts. The current part, Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku, began in 2022. The manga has also been published as 7 bilingual volumes (Japanese-English) called Division Chief Kosaku Shima and President Kosaku Shima, and in French and German. In addition to various manga there has also been one comedic ONA, and two comedic anime adaptations lasting 11 episodes each, a live action film, and a single episode TV drama. The character also acts as the "host" or framing device for a business documentary series on NHK World, Shima Kosaku's Asian Entrepreneurs. As of February 2022, the series had over 47 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series. In 1991, the manga won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award in the General category.

At the start of the long-running series, Kōsaku Shima is a kachō, or section chief, of a huge conglomerate, Hatsushiba Electric. He is later promoted to buchō (division chief) and eventually promoted to manager and executive-director, and with each promotion the title of the series changed as well. The fictional conglomerate is modeled after Panasonic/Matsushita Electric, where Hirokane worked before and is highly accurate in its portrayal of Japanese corporate culture.

• 'Section Chief Kōsaku Shima', 1983–1992: 17 volumes • 'Division Chief Kōsaku Shima', 1992–2002: 13 volumes • 'Assistant Director Kōsaku Shima', 2002–2005: 8 volumes • 'Director Kōsaku Shima', 2005–2006: 6 volumes • 'Executive Director Kōsaku Shima', 2006–2008: 5 volumes • 'President Kōsaku Shima', 2008–2013: 16 volumes • Kaichō Shima Kōsaku, 2013–2019: 13 volumes • 'Senior Advisor Kōsaku Shima', 2019–2022: 6 volumes • Shagai Torishimariyaku Shima Kōsaku, 2022–present: 7 volumes

• Young Shima Kōsaku, 2001–2006, Evening: 4 volumes • Young Shima Kōsaku Shunin-hen, 2006–2010, Evening: 4 volumes • 'Subsection Chief Kōsaku Shima', 2010–2013, Evening: 4 volumes • Gakusei Shima Kōsaku, 2014–2017, Evening: 6 volumes • 'Student Kōsaku Shima: Job Hunting Arc', 2017–2018, Evening: 3 volumes • Shima Kōsaku no Jikenbo, 2017 (written by Shin Kibayashi), Morning: 1 volume • 'The Time I Got Reincarnated… as Kōsaku Shima', 2019 (crossover with That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime; co-written by Fuse and Taiki Kawakami; character design: Mittsubā), Evening: 1 volume • 'The Knight Head Kōsaku Shima', 2019–2021 (illustrated by Fusuke Miyamoto), Monthly Comic Zero Sum: 3 volumes

• Kachō Kōsaku Shima: Super Business Adventure (Super Famicom) 1993 (published by Yutaka) • CR Kachō Kōsaku Shima (Pachinko) 2006 (published by Newgin) • Kachō Shima Kōsaku DS: Dekiru Otoko no Love & Success (Nintendo DS) 2008 (published by Konami)