The Great Passage (Novel)

Features the employees at the Genbu Shobō publishing company. Araki, who is a veteran editor for the dictionary department, is looking for a successor now that he's approaching retirement age. After Majime Mitsuya - a salesman who's a poor talker - meets Masashi Nishioka - Araki's coworker who is sociable and frivolous — Araki overhears their conversation and decides to recruit Majime into the department. "The awkward humans" Majime and Masashi work together to compile a medium-sized Japanese dictionary titled "The Great Passage"