I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 242 The wall fell and everyone pushed it
Arima Yoshiyoshi, who arrived upon hearing the news, walked through the crowd and entered the Bungeishunju headquarters building. Everyone he met seemed a little dazed, and he could vaguely sense that everyone was in a state of anxiety, as if a storm was brewing.

When he came to the office of President Ueno Toru, he saw Ueno Toru frowning and pacing anxiously, and this feeling deepened.

When Ueno Tetsu saw that it was him, he quickly asked the female secretary to close the door and draw the curtains, and then asked anxiously: "Mr. Arima, are those recordings published online true?"

"What recording?"

Arima Yoshiyoshi is still unclear about what happened. He only knows that explosive news about him suddenly broke out on the Internet. When he got up this morning, before he was fully awake, several old friends called him to question him.

He rushed to Bungeishunju just to find out the truth.

"You don't know yet?" Ueno Toru was so anxious that he didn't even use honorifics.

After the recordings and photos filled with obscene language were posted online by Shizuko Kawaide, Bungeishunju's customer service department was flooded with calls from readers.

For the first time, the power of Internet technology allowed this high-ranking president to feel the "power of changing times."

In the past, they were always the first to know about major events of this kind. By the time they had contacted the newspaper, organized the official documents from the public relations department, and sorted out all the issues, the readers might not even know that such a thing had happened.

but now!
When Toru Ueno learned about this from his secretary, Japanese netizens photoshopped those photos into emoticons and they were all over the forum!
There were even tech geeks who used black technology to extract audio from obscene recordings and made them into ghost-like music, which went viral in various posts - this was probably the first ghost-like music in the history of the Japanese Internet.

The incident had become such a big deal that even the company employees knew about it, and they became very nervous, fearing that Bungeishunju would repeat the same mistake as Kodansha.

And Arima Yoshiyoshi actually had an expression as if he was going to call for an explanation?

"My name is Arima Yoshiyoshi.
This year ~ 68 years old ~
I love to sing and play with girls."

Toru Ueno didn't know how to explain this to him, so he just played the weird music for him.

Arima Yoshiyoshi listened to the weird sound effects coming from the computer. His own audio was spoofed like this, his face suddenly turned purple, he was so angry that he didn't say a word and was shaking all over!
"Assholes! Who did this? I'm going to sue them in court!"

"Mr. Arima, you should listen to this first, and then look at these photos." Ueno Toru weakly turned the computer screen around, turned off the harsh ghost music, and showed him the posts that he could not delete.

If the Internet had been officially regulated after 00, they could have asked the relevant departments of the Japanese government to quickly remove all posts and ban all related content.

But now is the grassroots era. In 1996, the "Internet Act" has not yet been passed. The job of a programmer is slightly better than that of a sewer cleaner, but it is completely unrelated to the elite.

No matter how powerful the political connections of Bungeishunju are, or how much money they have, they cannot stop the netizens from gossiping.

The key is that Beichuan Network also recruited a group of technicians with high salaries. While they worked as serious engineers, they secretly worked as water army for Beichuan Xiu.

When these highly intelligent navy troops start to attack, they are much more powerful than those AI machines.

Yahoo Japan also realized that this involved a fierce battle between two top literary publishing houses, so it simply kept its mouth shut and refused to help anyone, just waiting for notification from the government.

Arima Yoshiyoshi leaned over the screen and scanned the photos carefully, and found that the contents of those photos were not only difficult to talk about, but also involved many famous figures in the literary world.

No wonder those old friends came to question me in the morning!
In their eyes, even if it wasn't you who colluded with the woman in He Chu's study, it was because you were targeted by someone that led to our downfall!

Not to mention the content of the recording.

Compared with large-scale photos, dirty words and the like are unlikely to bring any pleasure to the spectators.

The key point is that there is also Ma Laiyi who got drunk and arrogantly admitted his connection with the political party and his deliberate behavior of guiding the people towards anti-defeat ideas!

The ones who were hurt the most were the readers who had been supporting Mr. Arima till then.

They endured the ridicule from Beichuan fans online, and were still desperately explaining and fighting back. They didn't expect that while they were struggling to hold on on the front line, their hometown in the rear was actually blown up by their idol!
It was not the enemy who killed them, but the bullets shot from behind.

This is so disappointing and heartbreaking!

This is also the reason why Ueno Toru was so panicked.

Arima Yoshiyoshi has personal moral flaws, but that is his personal problem and will not affect Bungeishunju.

But before that, Bungeishunju had solemnly denied Kitagawa Hide's anti-war ideas and even supported Arima Yoshiyoshi to refute Kitagawa Hide.

Now that public opinion has reversed, Bungeishunju has slapped itself in the face!
Also in trouble are a large number of people who once supported them.

Even Tanizaki Ichiro, who nominated Arima Yoshiyoshi for the Nobel Prize in Literature, was rarely criticized by readers.

The scariest thing is that this matter is still going viral, and I guess people overseas know about it.

You in Japan pushed such a thing as the nominee, but did not choose Kitagawa Hide, whom they recognized more. This is a disgrace to the other side of the Atlantic!
"Where's Kawada? Where's that guy Kawada!"

Arima Yoshiyoshi collapsed on the sofa for a while, and suddenly thought of Kawata Riko, whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

He took out his cell phone and quickly called the female assistant, but the number was invalid.

He's not stupid.

Now I finally understand.

It turns out there is a traitor among us!
The only person who could get these recordings and photos was Kawada Riko, his closest subordinate. They also included some recent conversations between him and Kawada Riko.

If not her, who else?!
This girl is so cruel and brave.

Does she think that she will have a good life if she switches to Hechu Study?

Didn't she ever think that after doing something like this, the other party wouldn't worry that she would do it again in the future?

Moreover, this time she has probably offended half of the Japanese literary world. Does she think her life will be easy in the future?

But no matter what Arima Yoshiyoshi thought, this crazy woman gave these things to Kawaide Shizuko as a token of her allegiance.

What's even crazier is that Shizuko Kawaide actually broke the news on her own social media account.

These young people who had thrown the stagnant Japanese literary world into chaos, just like the sudden popularity of the Internet, were a little difficult for Arima Yoshiyoshi to understand.

Have times really changed?

He slumped on the sofa, feeling somewhat bewildered.

It was not easy to ask Naoki Momota to come out and help delay time.

As long as he continues to work harder and waits for the subsequent chapters of "The Burmese Harp" to come out, he will have a chance to make a comeback in November.

But now, all these calculations have become a pipe dream.

"Arima." Ueno Toru stood up slowly, even skipping the teacher's name.

Arima Yoshiyoshi looked at him.

"Apologise"

"what?"

"Public apology to readers and the public"

"What a joke! I..." Arima Yoshiyoshi suddenly got angry.

He wanted to argue or say something, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't say anything.

What can I say?

What else can be done?

"I didn't expect Arima-sensei to be this kind of person! Oh, I quite like the novels he wrote."

"Yes, yes. One of his novels has been selected as our textbooks."

"Eh? Is it in the textbook too?"

"Yes, Kaoru, you just transferred here. The textbooks in Izu are different from those in Tokyo, right?"

"Izu." Wearing a JK uniform, sixteen-year-old Kaoru was packing her schoolbag. When she mentioned these things, she was completely clueless and really had no idea.

For the first sixteen years of her life, her life was filled with thick makeup, kimonos, endless dancing, and all kinds of smells.

Thanks to that light, that handsome and warm smile, she was able to get here from hopeless Izu.

"Tsk, she's just a country girl! What can she know? Judging from her appearance, I guess she has never even been to school before!"

The one who made the disdainful sound was a girl dressed as a hottie. She sat on the desk with her feet up. The scenery under her short skirt attracted the attention of many boys, but she didn't care at all. She just continued to stare at the embarrassed Kaoru and complained,
"Bumpkin!"

"Chihaya! How could you say that about Kaoru!?"

"What? Is there something wrong with what I said? Isn't Izu a rural area compared to Tokyo? Isn't she from the countryside?"

The hot girl who was speaking, Chihaya Ruri, was from Minato Ward, Tokyo. In her eyes, let alone Izu, even other districts in Tokyo that were far from the city center were all "out-of-town"!
"Chihaya, you!" The girl who spoke for Kaoru was stubborn and her face turned red, but she couldn't refute anything.

"Fools, two idiots, there is nothing to say to you, let's go sing!"

Chihaya Ruri jumped down from the desk and left, calling her friends.

Kitagawa Hide, who was eating croquettes at home and preparing to go into the house to write a book, had no idea about the trivial things happening between these little girls.

Ever since bringing Kaoru and the others to Tokyo, he, a guy who had no idea how to lead people, simply became a hands-off boss and left all the girls to be taught by Aso Mayumi and the others.

He picked up the food plate prepared by Mengzi and was about to walk into the room when he heard the phone ringing.

I turned around and saw that it was Rena Saito calling.

(End of this chapter)