Mrs. Watanabe's Last Dance

Shadow Investors Chasing 0.1% Interest Rates

Sato Kazuhiko (佐藤 和彦) 지음 | AI 그림 | AI 옮김

북스마트 2026년 01월 12일 출간 국내도서 : 2026년 01월 14일 출간

작품소개

책소개

"When your savings account sleeps, her yen awakens."
"In an era where diligence alone cannot lift you from poverty, the housewife's chosen last dance."
"Shadow investors chasing 0.1% interest rates—their name was 'Mrs. Watanabe'."
"Just hold on for 5 minutes, and hell turns into heaven! The miracle of trillions of yen erupting at the cliff's edge."

"A housewife who picks eggs ten yen cheaper and a trader who handles billions of yen in bets—her double life begins!"
Satoko Watanabe, an ordinary housewife in Tokyo's Azabujuban. After sending her husband off to work and finishing the dishes, she heads to her 'sanctuary' in the corner of the living room—three monitors. In an era of phantom interest rates hovering at 0.001%, trapped in the 'swamp of negative interest rates' where diligent saving only deepens poverty, she dons her apron and plunges into the front lines of the global currency war to save her family. A tense financial thriller unfolds amid the onslaught of London hedge funds, the government's surprise market intervention, and the threat of her entire fortune evaporating. This novel, which paints the precarious line between daily life and speculation, tranquility and madness, captures the capitalist survival story of all of us living today.

목차

Author's Note
Chapter 1: Bloomberg on the Dining Table
Chapter 2: Afternoon in London, Late Night in Tokyo
Chapter 3: The Temptation of the Margin Call
Chapter 4: The Swamp of Negative Interest Rates

책 속으로

"The 9 o'clock trader shaking the world, and the 4 o'clock housewife queuing for eggs 10 yen cheaper. Satoko held her teacup on that strange boundary."

"An era where diligence cannot lift you out of poverty."

"Someone must ride the waves, and someone must find a path beneath them. I'm not gambling. I'm laying the foundation to keep the ground beneath you and our child from collapsing!"

"The market takes the money of those who grieve first."

"Money is like a wave that can swallow a house at any moment, but once you learn to ride that wave, you can never go back to being the 'innocent housewife' you once were."

출판사 서평

Financial Journalist A: "I never imagined financial terminology could make my heart race like this. The process of a family's fate riding on every single candlestick on the exchange rate chart delivers overwhelming immersion."

Novelist B: "It perfectly embodies the real-world economic phenomenon known as the 'Mrs. Watanabe' through one woman's life. The descriptions where the smell of mackerel on an apron intertwines with the heat from a monitor create an atmosphere unique to this novel."

ID: Ant's Dream: "The terror of a 'margin call' that anyone who's traded stocks or coins will 100% relate to! My palms were sweaty the whole time I was reading."

ID: AzabuMom: "This isn't just a simple investment novel. Satoko's genuine heart, forced to ride dangerous waves for her family, made me choke up."

ID: ReadingMaster: "It makes you study economics effortlessly. Who knew yen carry trades and stealth interventions could be explained this entertainingly!"

인물정보

저자(글) Sato Kazuhiko (佐藤 和彦)

[Career and Background]
Former Senior Policy Advisor, International Affairs Department, Bank of Japan (BOJ): Served for 20 years at the core of Japan's monetary policy formulation, spearheading unofficial foreign exchange market operations such as 'stealth intervention'.

One of the originators of the term 'Mrs. Watanabe': A market analyst who closely observed Japanese retail investors emerging as major players in global financial markets in the late 1990s, coining the term 'Mrs. Watanabe' to describe them and introducing it to the world.

Current CEO of Azabu Research, a global macroeconomic strategy consulting firm: Having left public service, he now operates in the private sector as a 'shadow advisor,' guiding hedge funds and institutional investors worldwide on the direction of Asian markets.

[Pen Name and Motivation for Writing]
To reveal his actual experiences and the secret inner workings of the market, he sometimes uses the pen name "Kazuhiko Sato" instead of his real name, symbolizing the legendary anonymous trader passed down in financial circles.

Writing Intent: "I wanted to document the struggles of ordinary housewives who had no choice but to enter the battlefield to protect their families, trapped in the quagmire of negative interest rates where the more diligently you save, the poorer you become," he stated, capturing the harshness of capitalism and the human anguish that blossoms within it in his novel.

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