Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 1544. Equally matched

In the new year, Asako remained the same. Her age had not left any traces on her, but rather added some gentleness and intelligence, which was the opposite of Narita Hiroyuki's reservedness.

When Shinichi Iwahashi saw the changes in his sister, he suddenly had some interesting associations.

Both Asako and Mayumi Watanabe, two professional women, appeared to be decisive when they were young, but became humble after they had established themselves in the industry.

Asako has a successful career and is trusted by her clients. In addition, she occasionally accepts magazine interviews and gives some popular science articles that Hiroyuki Narita says "no one will read them at all."

When Narita Hiroyuki mentioned this, he joked with his wife as usual: "Our Asako has a resume that can be used to run for a seat in parliament in the future."

Asako was used to her husband's bad-sounding jokes and asked back, "Do I have such a boring resume?"

The gene that Iwahashi Masaaki, the master of bad jokes, passed on to his daughter perfectly maintains the balance between the couple. Because there is no delicate interaction between the two, they can respond to each other like good friends.

This is a kind of husband-and-wife relationship that Shinichi Iwahashi and Akina Nakamori could never imagine.

Shinichi Iwahashi agreed to be filmed by TV Asahi, and the program was broadcast not long ago. The record industry's leading figure who creates a topic every once in a while reveals his working status to the audience. It is full of gimmicks and the ratings are also impressive.

Of course, what can be shown to the audience are insignificant details and deliberately arranged scenes.

When watching TV programs, one should be aware that everything is scripted. It is a tacit understanding between the audience and the producer that they should watch the program without delving into the inside story, just like when watching a magician's performance, one should appreciate the effect instead of being obsessed with exposing the trick.

"When Shinichi-kun appears on TV, he's no different from any other respectable person, but that's not the case when you're face to face." Narita Hiroyuki made a comment that was hard to tell whether it was a joke or a compliment.

Iwahashi Shinichi was used to his brother-in-law's subtle way of speaking, and replied lightly, "Perhaps it's because brother-in-law Narita hasn't adjusted his mentality to accept this matter yet."

Narita Hiroyuki pretended to encourage his wife, "Asako should also go to the TV show, so that we can be on par with Shinichi."

Asako was too lazy to respond.

Narita Hiroyuki enjoyed himself, "But the audience is difficult to deal with. If you are too serious, people will say you are distant, and if you are too friendly, people will say you are fawning. If you smile more, you will be a masked woman, but if you are serious, you will definitely receive pretentious criticism."

Hiroyuki Narita's witty remarks made Akina Nakamori laugh continuously.

When media professionals sit together, there is always a unique sense of humor. However, this is not an exaggerated joke, but the truth.

Iwahashi Shinichi shook his head. "That's why print media cannot be replaced. There must always be a place for people who don't want to be criticized to speak out."

Asako's words were picked up at the perfect time: "How is it not a sense of superiority to only evaluate others and not accept their evaluation?"

This sentence was so clever that Narita Hiroyuki applauded, "This is the tacit understanding between Asako and Shinichi." The brother-in-law said this because he had seen Shinichi Iwahashi and Asako being polite and unfamiliar.

Akina Nakamori was concerned about the child, and after hearing this joke, she got up and went upstairs. She naturally invited Asako to go with her to see the baby.

"…He should still be sleeping. Babies are like that, they always sleep all the time."

Asako had not seen her newborn nephew yet, but she had seen the tender look on Akina Nakamori's face when she mentioned the child. Could the birth of a baby bring about such changes?

Asako thought Akina Nakamori's expression was very beautiful, but when she thought of her nephew whom she had never met, she suddenly felt that her imagination was lacking and stopped thinking.

As soon as his wife and Akina Nakamori walked away, Hiroyuki Narita put away his playful smile and came closer, "Shinichi, do you know? Masayoshi Son from SoftBank is recently having a hot relationship with the man known as the king of the world's newspaper industry." It seems that this brother-in-law came to visit this time and brought intelligence with him.

Iwahashi Shin kept getting to the point: "What is the goal?"

"Of course it's TV Asahi."

Asahi TV was formerly known as Educational Television, and one of its major shareholders is Japan's largest textbook publisher, Obunsha. However, in recent years, textbook publishers have not only faced fierce competition, but also been affected by the declining birthrate, resulting in a sharp drop in the number of textbooks printed and increasingly difficult operations, which has fallen into the sights of today's tech mogul, Masayoshi Son.

"Given the conservative nature of the Japanese press, can we allow foreign investment?"

"If Sony can take action against CBS, why can't Japanese TV stations retaliate?" This is Hiroyuki Narita's bad-taste joke, and the scope of his attack is quite wide.

If this succeeds, it will bring about a major change that will have an impact on the television industry.

In any case, even a conservative country like Japan will certainly be impacted when the new era arrives. However, the subtlety is that the door will either open in disgrace or in disgrace.

Television media will enter a new era, and so will the record industry.

However, the closed Japanese record market has a fatal weakness: the manufacturers of record playing equipment are also shareholders of well-known record companies, operators and owners of song copyrights, and have deep ties with record production factories, and even record distribution networks.

This means that paid downloads and digital records have become a taboo that no one can touch.

"In any case, the media industry is entering a new era - there should be such awareness," Narita Hiroyuki said. "Murdoch has already extended his hand to the television industry in Hong Kong and seems to be quite interested in Asian business."

Iwahashi Shinichi thought for a moment and said, "Even if we can get a hold of TV Asahi's shares, our real goal should be to use it as a springboard to develop satellite TV."

In this era, this is a natural inference, and Narita Hiroyuki does not think there is anything wrong with this judgment.

However, in addition to bringing this information, he also mentioned another thing: "Your Mr. Komuro has some contacts with Murdoch's son."

"Dentsu is truly an intelligence agency."

Shinichi Iwahashi told a mean joke similar to that of Hiroyuki Narita.

Narita Hiroyuki laughed and said, "On this point, just trust Dentsu Man. ... I am beginning to wonder what Mr. Komuro is thinking."

At least not just wanting to be a music mogul.

Iwahashi Shinichi rarely talked about Komuro Tetsuya with others, and he was also indifferent to the information brought by Narita Hiroyuki, "Komuro-san is a person with his own ideas, otherwise he would not have achieved such success."

Narita Hiroyuki looked at Iwahashi Shinichi's expression and suddenly said, "I thought you had instructed me to do this."

"I don't have the intelligence agency's detection capabilities."

After Shinichi Iwahashi said this, Narita Hiroyuki smiled and said, "So, having a Dentsu man as a partner is good."