National Tide 1980.

March 1989 was actually an unlucky month in Tokyo.

Although at the Academy Awards ceremony, Fog Productions met expectations and won the award it wanted.

Ning Weimin also helped Teresa Teng fulfill her lifelong dream and brought her career to unprecedented heights.

These are all things to be happy about and celebrate.

However, from the perspective of Japanese society, this period of time can be described as a terrible time with bad news coming one after another.

First of all, in Japanese politics, as more and more "black money" incidents have been disclosed, the Liberal Democratic Party's support rate among the people has continued to plummet.

But even so, the negative consequences of the Recruit incident continued to ferment, and corrupt officials continued to be exposed one after another.

And usually, he is the one who is appointed to clean up the mess. No sooner does he proudly declare his integrity in front of the public than he is revealed by the media that he is also a bribe-taking guy.

It can be said that this kind of dramatic plot has been staged so frequently that the Liberal Democratic Party has almost been slapped in the face.

As a result, the Cabinet of Noboru Takeshita was in a state of disarray and was on the verge of dissolution.

Japan's literary and art circles were also hit by a series of bad news.

In February of this year, Japanese manga master Osamu Tezuka passed away at Hanzomon Hospital in Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

In early March, Japan's national treasure-level enka master Hibari Misora, who had just performed on the same stage with Teresa Teng, was sent to the Juntendo University Medical Hospital in Tokyo because of her serious illness and was unable to complete her national tour. Her health condition is not optimistic.

By mid-March, even the mystery novel master Matsumoto Seicho, who was busy writing "Squid Game", was diagnosed with liver cancer by the hospital due to poor health.

All of this cannot help but make people have bad associations. When the emperor just passed away, so many masters of Japanese literary and art circles are also about to pass away one after another. Is it really a hidden sign that Japan's national destiny has begun to decline?

That’s not all. Soon after, the Japanese media broke the news of a horrific case of bodies being buried in cement that shocked the whole of Japan, exposing Japan’s worrying social security situation amid its booming economy and the inability of current laws to protect the weak.

The reason why the Japanese media paid attention to this incident was that at the end of March 1989, the Tokyo police organized a difficult salvage operation.

The police's goal is to salvage the dark secrets in a cement tank based on the confessions of the captured criminals.

This cement tank has been submerged on the seabed for more than 70 days since the beginning of this year, and it is not easy to salvage it.

When the cement tank was opened, a female corpse that had suffered extremely cruel torture was revealed inside.

Her face was unrecognizable, her body was covered with wounds, and forensic examination revealed that she was pregnant with an unborn fetus.

Later, after the Japanese media disclosed the police investigation results, the Japanese people learned the truth of the matter.

It turned out that the deceased was a high school girl named Junko Furuta. She was harassed by several bad boys of the same age on the street, and then abducted by one of them.

In the following 41 days, this innocent girl not only suffered various abuses and tortures from these bad boys, but was also brutally murdered and her body was buried in a cement barrel by them.

Even the police officers being interviewed were reluctant to describe the specific details of the crime and the cruelty of the torture to the media in detail.

Even when Shunzi's parents identified the body, they refused to admit that it was their daughter. It was not until they confirmed Shunzi's identity through fingerprint comparison that the parents burst into tears.

Because of this, Shunzi's mother was severely stimulated and suffered a mental breakdown, and was hospitalized for many years.

However, this tragic crime did not lead to public condemnation of the criminals.

What is unreasonable is that many bad media pointed the finger at the victim Shunzi. In order to attract attention, they described Shunzi as a "bad girl who stays out all night" and even went so far as to accuse Shunzi of being the murderer who approached them.

Moreover, according to the relevant provisions of Japanese law on the protection of juvenile criminals, legal experts generally believe that although these juvenile murderers have committed heinous acts, they will be sentenced to a maximum of 5 to 20 years in prison.

Needless to say, the faces of these people fully expose the dark side of Japanese society, which is the lack of protection for vulnerable groups and even its indifference.

In fact, only a few media still uphold professional ethics.

For example, Weekly Bunshun angrily violated relevant regulations. They made the information of the four criminals public and called on the government to amend the law and severely punish these bad teenagers.

This also put the editor-in-chief of the magazine in the spotlight.

Fortunately, the editor-in-chief was not afraid of public opinion. In an interview, he clearly stated that "beasts do not deserve human rights. They should not hide behind the law on the protection of minors as minors."

This statement was supported by many ordinary people.

For this reason, Ning Weimin, who already owns a media outlet, cannot help but pay attention to the attitude shown by his own media on this matter.

As a foreigner, he has his own weaknesses. Although he does not want to stand out and take the lead like Weekly Bunshun, he also does not want to ignore the pain of the victims and make unscrupulous reports.

Fortunately, he had a special communication with the editor-in-chief of "Fog Weekly" on the matter and learned that their reporting of the incident was relatively respectful of objective facts.

Unlike most unscrupulous media outlets, which, in pursuit of sales, deliberately exaggerate romantic plots, fabricate bizarre stories, and profit from the suffering of the victim's families, the report did not.

Ning Weimin finally felt relieved.

From another perspective, this incident actually inadvertently helped Ning Weimin solve a family problem.

It turns out that Ning Weimin and his parents-in-law have completely opposite attitudes on the issue of whether little Ningze should go to school in the Republic or in Tokyo in the future.

Originally, the old couple Han Yingming were reluctant to let their granddaughter leave. Although they would not openly stop Ning Weimin from bringing his wife and daughter back to China in the future, they always hinted at it in their words.

For example, he praised Tokyo's better educational resources and the favorable environment of international schools, saying that one could choose any one of them. He hoped that Ning Weimin would change his original intention for the sake of his granddaughter's future, and it would be best if the three of them could stay in Tokyo forever.

The old couple even talked to their daughter behind her back, hoping that Qingzi could persuade them.

This made Ning Weimin and Matsumoto Keiko feel awkward, as they didn't want to disappoint the old man, but they also didn't want to make things difficult for the other party.

But when this incident was exposed, the dangerous level of Japanese society made most Japanese families shudder, and the two elderly people had to consider little Ningze from the perspective of his personal safety.

Therefore, the original difficult problem that had been bothering them no longer existed, and the issues that the two old men were considering had completely changed.

Given that there are bad boys who are addicted to stealing and fighting in almost every school in Japan, young people with Shamatte styling can be seen everywhere on the streets, and there are increasingly violent groups that act without scruples, the government is simply powerless to change this chaotic situation.

They have decided not to interfere with the issue of whether their child should stay in Tokyo to go to school, but instead to consider whether they can stay in Beijing for a few more days each time they visit China, and how to leave Tokyo to accompany their granddaughter.

Also, can I come to Tokyo to spend my children’s winter and summer vacations with them?

In short, from this perspective, it has to be said that Beijing is currently much safer than Tokyo.

Because apart from the fact that Beijing is the best place in the country, the people in Beijing are naturally kind and know how to treat others with kindness. Even if there is also the phenomenon of strong bullying the weak among minors in Beijing, it is just fighting at most, and it is far from such a level.

In the long history of China, it seems that only eunuchs who understand that serving the emperor is like serving a tiger and bandits who are at the end of their rope would do such things that are worse than those of beasts.

The Japanese were different. During World War II, they not only brainwashed the entire nation, but also indulged in their barbarity and cruelty.

Even in this modern society, they like to abuse the weak and vent their twisted desires.

They seem to be born with a very contradictory gene. They can calmly accept being enslaved and abused by the strong, but at the same time they desire to enslave and humiliate those who are weaker than themselves.

If nothing else, the theme of slavery and domestication that they always love in their short films is perhaps the best interpretation of this character.

As a descendant of the Chinese nation, Ning Weimin has always been very puzzled by the contradictory characteristics of the Japanese.

I never figured out why this is happening?
If we must find a reason, perhaps we can only look for it in the cultural inferiority of the Japanese nation.

Ning Weimin remembered that in his previous life, someone on the Internet said that the real reason behind the Japanese arrogance was actually their inferiority complex and their fear and jealousy of the great Eastern power. There was some truth in this.

After all, given his upbringing and educational background, it is difficult to grasp and understand the true desires and fears in the bones of people living in an island country like this.

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Time quickly came to the end of March.

However, the issue of how to convict the four criminals in the Junko case has been under extreme tug-of-war between the Law on the Protection of Minors and various public opinions in Japanese society.

This incident attracted the attention of most Japanese people. Even the new news in the Japanese entertainment industry seemed much less important and was not well received by the media.

For example, there was no news about the filming of "Li Wang", directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring Jet Li, in Tokyo.

Apart from "Mist Weekly", the in-house publication of Mist Studio, which published relevant news, and the original author of the comic reporting the good news to his readers in the serialized publication, and TBS TV station giving a short message in the news for Ning Weimin's sake, there were no other media channels to preheat and promote the film.

Given the fame of "Shaolin Temple", this news should be considered a not-so-small entertainment news.

What's more, Jet Li has many fans and supporters in Japan.

Even actors like Yu Hai, Yu Chenghui, and Ji Chunhua have become familiar faces to Japanese movie fans because of their wonderful performances in "Shaolin Temple".

This was the first time for these people to come to Japan as a group to film, especially a Japanese movie.

No matter how you look at it, it should attract a lot of fans to watch the set, as well as many tabloid reporters to follow the filming of this movie.

However, the actual situation was quite deserted. Only a few dozen fans came to the set to watch, holding simple banners to express their support. There was no media except "Fog Weekly".

There is no way around it. This can only be said that the case of Junko Furuta is too big. People in Tokyo now don't have too much energy to pay attention to other things.

If they really want to attract the attention of media reporters and intensify coverage of the film, then apart from spending more money on advertising, they can probably only wait until the heat of the case gradually cools down.

This is not the biggest problem. What makes Ning Weimin most unhappy is that his view on the bad qualities of the Japanese seems to have been further confirmed by reality.

He never imagined that Takahashi Oshinori, whom he had sternly rejected not long ago, was still not giving up on Maria and the Akagi Club, and even relied on his wealth to stir up trouble behind the scenes.

It seems that this arrogant guy is determined to force Ning Weimin to sell the club to him and give Maria to him at any cost.

The specific situation is as follows: on March 3, Ning Weimin received a call from the Genji Group.

The other party's purpose was to inform him that the floor of the building where the Akagi Club was located had been sold by Genshiro.

The other party's representative, Kawamoto Genshiro, expressed a certain amount of apology, saying that someone offered a very high price that they could not refuse, so starting next month, the Chixia Club would have to pay rent to someone else.

Ning Weimin didn't care too much at this time. After all, the land in Ginza is absolutely scarce in Tokyo.

Especially when the Tokyo land market is in full swing, the land prices in Ginza are leading the way.

It is perfectly normal for some people to be tempted by the land in Ginza and want to stockpile it.

After he ended the call with the other party, he didn't take it seriously. He was just simply curious about it.

You know, with the current land market in Ginza already reaching hundreds of thousands of US dollars per ping, there are actually people who offer a price that can tempt Genshiro, who has a hobby of collecting Ginza real estate and has always only bought and never sold.

So what was the transaction price?
Who is this big shot who spent huge sums of money to buy land in Ginza at the height of the storm?
Where did this smart guy come from?

He couldn't help but be amazed just thinking about it.

Unexpectedly, this was just the beginning. Just a day and a half later, he received another call from the property management of the building where Maria's Liquor Store was located.

The other party actually informed him that the office building had also changed owners.

They found him because they couldn't get in touch with Maria.

I hope he can tell Maria that because the owner has changed, all tenants of the building need to go to the building property to re-sign a lease contract in the near future.

At this moment, Ning Weimin felt something was a little unusual.

It's not such a coincidence. The buildings in Ginza are not cheap. The real estate transactions here, even for the smallest piece of land, are astronomical figures.

If the owners of one of the business premises they rent change, there will be no problem. However, if the owners of both places change at the same time, there will be problems.

Therefore, Ning Weimin had to take this situation seriously and suspect that something was fishy.

He contacted Maria first, but did not tell Maria, who was in Osaka promoting alcoholic beverages, what he felt was wrong.

I just found out that the seals and vines were all locked in the safe of the liquor store.

He decided to take out these things on Maria's behalf and sign the contract as a partner of the liquor store, hoping to find out what was going on.

What is the result?

When it was time to sign the contract, he took his lawyer to the office building for the appointment.

Only then did I realize that all these changes were caused by Takahashi Oshinori. It turned out that his company invested in the acquisition of the two properties in Ginza. (End of this chapter)