Having become a managing director, Shima Kōsaku is appointed to be supervisor of Shanghai Hatsushiba. Now the story is brought to a highly competitive marketplace for electronics manufacturers the world over, China. Facing language and cultural barriers and some persisting deeply-rooted anti-Japanese sentiment, Shima Kōsaku keeps up his fight without ever giving up his personal style in this new world.

Kaji Ryusuke is a second son of a great politician. However, his father and brother both pass away from a car accident. Now, those who supported Ryusuke's father want Ryusuke to carry on the family business as a politician. At first, Ryusuke tries to get out of the responsibility, but he eventually enters an election to become a politician. The manga chronicles Ryusuke's rise in the world of Japanese politics.

Section Chief Shima Kōsaku is the first in a number of Japanese manga series about a fictional salaryman named Shima Kōsaku, a Japanese white-collar worker who devotes his life to his company, Hatsushiba Electric. ---- - **Won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1991, which it shared with the Josei work Akujo**