Traveling Through the Tokyo Bubble Era

Chapter 997 The Great Writer Hideki Hanyu

The next day.

Early in the morning, the secretary in the North American Secretariat reminded Hideki Hanyu by phone that the interviews with the media partners of the Hans Christian Andersen Award would begin at 10:00 a.m.

Hideki Hanyu said he knew about it and then hung up the phone.

Then his gaze fell on Christy Durrington, who was lying beside him.

The girl's fair body was adorned only with a set of gemstone jewelry, a gift he had bought for her at the charity auction dinner the previous night.

The price of over two hundred thousand US dollars was nothing to Hideki Hanyu, but it delighted Christy Durrington.

After returning to the hotel, the girl immediately put on only this set of gemstone jewelry and showed it to Hideki Hanyu.

Hideki Hanyu naturally cherishes such a sensible girl.

If there's anything lacking, it's that one person didn't have enough fun.

These days, even foreign women aren't a match for him.

Get up, get dressed and wash up.

After a quick breakfast, I met with a large group of journalists who had come for the "Hans Christian Andersen Award" in a small conference room provided by the hotel.

All of them are media outlets that cooperate with UNESCO; there isn't a single small media outlet, and they are basically well-known media outlets from various countries.

At first glance, you can spot the BBC from the UK, ABC from Australia, NHK from Japan, and CBS and NBC from America...

Of course, the most familiar one is still a certain XXTV.

Today's interview was semi-official, mainly to help UNESCO and the Young People's Book Club promote the "Hans Christian Andersen Award".

In addition to the award ceremony itself, the award winners are also required to cooperate with the two organizations in some promotional activities, such as book promotion and related charitable activities.

Of course, other award recipients wouldn't receive such attention from the two organizations, nor would they be given such a grand reception and so many media interviews.

But who can blame them when the winner is Hideki Hanyu?

In this day and age, Hideki Hanyu is undoubtedly the wealthiest businessman among writers and the most famous writer among businessmen.

Putting aside his good looks, wealth, and talent, his numerous scandals and gossip alone are enough to make the media around the world adore him.

In terms of fame and influence, it is no exaggeration to say that he is a global "top influencer".

However, his fame as a "top influencer" is different from that of other celebrities. It comes from his talent as a famous writer and his wealth as the world's richest man.

In addition, he is an entertainment and media mogul at the top of the global pyramid.

Its foundation is as solid as tungsten carbide, and it doesn't care at all whether it will "collapse".

That is why these media outlets were so eager to cooperate with the interviews after being asked by UNESCO.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting. I'm very happy to be able to do this interview with you all today..."

Hideki Hanyu entered the suite, looked around at the media reporters, and greeted them with great poise.

Today he was "playing" an award-winning children's book author, so he didn't exude a domineering aura, but rather a gentle and refined scholar.

This image, as perceived by the media, conveyed a sense of approachability and warmth, quickly bridging the gap between them and Hideki Hanyu, and setting the stage for an interview.

In this state, even the questions asked during the interview became milder.

Some reporters had come with questions unrelated to the Hans Christian Andersen Award, but these questions were unknowingly made less offensive when asked.

Of course, Hideki Hanyu doesn't answer every question.

Especially when it comes to sensitive issues such as international politics, religion, and ideology, he will refuse if he can, and if he can't refuse, he will just give a perfunctory answer.

It's impossible to get Hideki Hanyu to take sides.

On the surface, he could get away with it. As long as he didn't give anyone a handle to use against him in public, given Hideki Hanyu's power, no one would provoke him behind his back.

"My primary identity is that of a children's book author. My purpose in creating my works is to create a pure and innocent world full of wonderful fantasy for all children, so that they can grow up carefree in my works."

Although I also write novels with realistic themes, in most cases, the core of my works revolves around family, friendship, and love.

I will also do my best to help those in need in this world.

......"

Towards the end of the interview, when faced with questions about certain turbulent areas, Hideki Hanyu simply launched into a long, nonsensical explanation.

Seeing that Hideki Hanyu didn't want to answer, the reporters didn't dare to press the media mogul for answers.

After all, an interview is fun in the moment, but it's not worth it if you offend Hideki Hanyu because of it.

These people know who they can offend and who they can't.

After the interview, Hideki Hanyu collected a number of business cards.

On the surface, they all used the pretext of hoping to schedule an exclusive interview.

However, a few beautiful reporters, through various suggestive glances, clearly had other motives as well.

Among them, there are indeed women who can catch the eye of a scumbag, such as that female reporter from the Australian ABC, who is blonde, brown-eyed, voluptuous and beautiful, and whose business card was kept by the scumbag.

Of course, besides this female reporter, Hideki Hanyu also accepted interviews from several well-known media outlets, including the BBC, NHK, and XXTV.

He will take the time to resolve everything after the awards ceremony.

Although Hideki Hanyu doesn't usually like interviews, he doesn't deliberately try to be low-key when promoting himself as a writer.

He will definitely make a big splash as a writer by winning the Hans Christian Andersen Award.

After saying goodbye to the media, Hideki Hanyu realized it was lunchtime.

Just as he was about to head to his suite and wake Christy Durrington for lunch, his secretary came up to remind him.

"Boss, Mr. Larry Fink is here and has been waiting for you for twenty minutes."

Upon hearing that Larry Fink was coming to visit, Hideki Hanyu immediately gave up on inviting Christy Durrington to dinner.

How can a mere lover compare to a future financial tycoon?

With that in mind, he casually wrote down a check and handed it to his assistant, Akimi Yasukawa, who had been sent from Japan.

"Give this to her and tell her that I'm too busy with work and can't spend time with her. If she has any other issues, make up an excuse for me to get rid of her."

"Yes, Mr. Yuzuru."

Hideki Hanyu didn't even need to say who he was; Akimi Yasukawa already understood what he was talking about.

After all, helping Hideki Hanyu deal with women was already a routine task for Hideki Hanyu's assistant office.

From the very beginning, including Reiko Uemura, whether it was Chie Ishihara, Kaoru Chiba, or the newly appointed personal assistant Akemi Yasukawa, all of them had to take a mandatory course before starting their jobs.

After Akemi Yasukawa left, Hideki Hanyu, accompanied by his secretary, went to meet Larry Fink.

The two met at the hotel restaurant. After sitting down, Hideki Hanyu had just ordered when Larry Fink couldn't wait to ask him questions.

“Seraphim, did you see Peter Peterson last night?”

Hideki Yuzuru nodded. "Yes, I saw him. His Broadway companion is very beautiful."

Seeing Larry Fink's anxious expression as soon as he said that, Hideki Hanyu immediately smiled and said, "Just kidding, Larry. I know what you want to know. I can tell you that I got some good news and some bad news last night. Which one do you want to hear first?"

Larry Fink said, "Let's hear the good news first."

Hideki Hanyu replied, "The good news is that, judging from Peter Peterson's attitude, Blackstone Group is not against BlackRock operating independently, provided that there is a price to pay."

Larry Fink asked, "Can money solve this?"

Hideki Hanyu said, "That's right, there's no problem on Wall Street that money can't solve."

Larry Fink asked, "The bad news you're going to tell me isn't that it's a really big sum of money, is it?"

Hideki Hanyu shook his head. "I didn't ask about the cost itself, and Peter Peterson probably won't tell me either. You'll have to verify that yourself."

As for my bad news, it wasn't actually Peter Peterson who told me; I guessed it from our meeting.

"So, what did you guess?" Larry Fink had a bad feeling.

"It's very likely that Peter Peterson deliberately leaked the news to you about attending the charity auction dinner. He probably even knew beforehand that you asked me to meet him yesterday."

After Hideki Hanyu finished speaking, Larry Fink frowned and asked, "How did you guess that?"

Hideki Hanyu nodded with his right index finger and said, "He relies on intuition. There are too many coincidences, and he firmly believes that my guess is correct."

Larry Fink did not speak and fell silent.

But the increasingly deep frown proved that he was not in a good mood.

Aside from his partners and Hideki Hanyu, who was told about it just yesterday, almost no one outside BlackRock knew about his desire to develop independently.

Did Peter Peterson deliberately leak the information because of this?

Larry Fink made a last-minute request to ask Hideki Hanyu for help, but the news was leaked within half a day.

All of this proves that there must be a "leaker" around Larry Fink.

First of all, the leaker is definitely not Hideki Hanyu.

After all, when he received the news that Peter Peterson was attending a charity auction dinner, Hideki Hanyu was still watching the Asian Games in Japan.

As for who it could be, the possibilities seem quite limited.

After all, he only told a few people about asking Hideki Hanyu for help.

If Hideki Hanyu hadn't told him, he probably wouldn't have thought in that direction at all, since everything seemed so normal.

Just then, the ribeye steak that Hideki Hanyu had ordered was brought over by the waiter.

Before Hideki Hanyu picked up his knife and fork to dig in, he gave Larry Fink a meaningful reminder.

"What you need to do next is to keep your opponent from knowing your hand."

"I see."

Larry Fink nodded.

Now that BlackRock knows that it can achieve independence by paying a price, it will definitely have to engage in a long and drawn-out negotiation with Blackstone about the "cost" of breaking away.

In this situation, if there is someone around who keeps leaking information, they will definitely have to pay a greater price.

……

After lunch, Hideki Hanyu saw Larry Fink off and then drove to the United Nations headquarters, where he went through a series of pre-award procedures led by staff.

For example, visiting the organization, meeting with senior management, learning about the organization's activities, etc.

When all of this was over, Hideki Hanyu returned to the hotel and found that Christy Durrington had already left, leaving only a note filled with "love".

After all, for a supermodel like Christy Turlington, whose career is on the rise, her workload is no less than that of a popular singer.

In addition, this period coincides with the global autumn and winter fashion weeks.

It's already quite remarkable that Christy Turlington was able to make time for Hideki Hanyu.

Looking at the empty room, Hideki Yuzuru immediately pulled out a business card from his pocket and dialed the number on it.

"Miela, would you like to have dinner together and discuss the interview?"

……

New York time, September 29, 1990.

Hideki Hanyu woke up in his hotel suite right on time.

After washing up and getting his hair and makeup done, Hideki Hanyu instructed his assistant, Akemi Yasukawa, to send away the sleeping Australian female reporter in the bedroom before heading to the United Nations headquarters.

Although UNESCO's headquarters are in Paris, the awards ceremony was held at the United Nations headquarters this time, mainly to leverage the influence of the Hans Christian Andersen Award and Hideki Hanyu to promote a series of activities and projects in conjunction with other UN organizations.

Of course there is another reason.

That is, at this point in time, even if we are unwilling, we must admit that after the Big Brother’s decline became obvious, the center of the world has completely shifted to America.

America has also begun to firmly grasp international discourse power.

Therefore, whatever you do, if you want to gain the greatest influence, doing it in America is the most convenient and effective way.

This event was mostly charitable in nature.

For example, during a charity event in collaboration with a children's charity foundation, Hideki Hanyu announced on the spot that he would donate picture books worth ten million US dollars to impoverished children in many countries.

As for children in countries where they can't even afford to eat, whether donating food would be more practical is not a decision that Hideki Hanyu can make.

After all, the event was about donating books, so how could he possibly stand out as the only one sober when everyone else was drunk?

For Hideki Hanyu today, charity events are just a prelude; the important thing is receiving the award.

After winning the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, aside from spending time and gaining experience to win the Hans Christian Andersen Award for Readers' Choice, he has almost achieved a grand slam of all the awards he could win in the field of children's book creation.

Success and fame—this phrase couldn't be more fitting for him at this moment.

When the organizers called out Hideki Hanyu's name, the handsome and debonair Hideki Hanyu, dressed in a well-tailored suit, stood on the stage to accept the award and give his acceptance speech, and was immediately surrounded by a barrage of flashing lights.

Hideki Hanyu proved to the world with his Hans Christian Andersen Award that he truly deserves the title of a great author in the field of children's books.

Although the news of the award was announced months ago.

However, the image of Hideki Hanyu receiving the award today is destined to appear repeatedly in media outlets around the world for a long time to come, further elevating his status and position as a writer.

Especially in Japan, there is an overall atmosphere of desire for external recognition and respect, from the official to the grassroots level.

In this situation, the honors and influence that Hideki Hanyu gains externally will make his reputation in Japan grow higher and higher.

Until it reached a height that even he could hardly have imagined.

Whether this is good or bad for him, it doesn't seem to be bad for him at the moment.

As for the future...

Hideki Hanyu didn't know either.

(End of this chapter)