¡°You have the right to quit this company.¡±

The heroine utters this line at the climax of every episode of a TV drama series currently airing on Saturday nights, ¡°Miss Devil¡± (¡°Devil of Human Resources¡°).

The setting is Kyoa Fire Insurance. Out of nowhere, a leggy beauty with sharp eyes and even sharper eyeliner arrives on the scene. The firm¡¯s president reportedly headhunted her to overhaul corporate culture at Kyoa. Rumor has it that Mako Tsubaki made her name in the U.S. as a ¡°termination consultant,¡± moving from place to place and firing people with outrageous abandon, cruelty and callousness (not unlike the character played by George Clooney in the 2009 film ¡°Up in the Air¡°).