The new Fuji TV series, "Black President" (Tues., 10 p.m.), is not about Barack Obama. It's about a man named Mitamura (Ikki Sawamura), an entrepreneur who has turned his apparel company into a national success, mainly by oppressing his workers, which is why his enterprise is called a burakku kigyo (black company).
But "Black President" is more of a comedy. Having achieved success, Mitamura decides to do something he didn't have time for when he was building his business: go to school. He applies to a university, takes the entrance test, passes and enrolls in a management program. His secretary thinks he's crazy, but he's determined, and becomes even more so when he meets his new instructor, Kyoko (Meisa Kuroki).
Financial matters are also the subject of "Zenijo" ("Money Woman"; Fuji TV, Fri., 9 p.m.), a two-hour drama based on a true story that took place starting in the late 1980s, when the bubble economy was still growing.