I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 272 Ichiro Tanizaki’s world has fallen!
Tokyo Electric Power Company, whose predecessor was the Tokyo Electric Light Company, was established in 1883.

In 1950, under the order of the United Nations occupation forces, the state-owned Tepco was completely privatized and began to be responsible for the operation of power generation and transmission business in a total of seven surrounding prefectures including Tokyo.

Unlike its neighboring countries, which completely separate "power generation companies (Huadian, Datang Power Generation, etc.)" and "grid companies (State Grid, China Southern Power Grid)", Japan adopts a model that combines grid companies and power generation companies into one.

And although TEPCO is nominally a private company, in fact, it has a monopoly in the metropolitan area. In addition to retail electricity, it includes all businesses starting from power generation, transformation, and transmission.

In addition, TEPCO's real financial backers are the Mitsubishi Group and the American Morgan Group that assists in its operations.

The reason why this news caused such a stir in the Tokyo metropolitan area, even overshadowing the hot events in the literary world, was because the deceased, Watanabe Yasuko, was the only female executive in TEPCO. In her handbag, the police found a stack of business cards.

"Yasuko Watanabe, Deputy Director of Planning Department, Tokyo Electric Power Company Limited"

Why does her identity attract so much attention from society?

This has to do with Japan’s current special national conditions.

After police investigation.

Yasuko Watanabe was born on Okinawa Island, and her family has been Okinawa natives for generations.

She grew up in a poor family, but she studied very hard. While in school, she spoke out many times about the rape of Okinawa women by US troops stationed there.

In the 80s, she was successfully admitted to the University of Tokyo and graduated with excellent grades. At that time, the economy happened to be recovering and the women's rights movement was developing. The traditional concept of women in Japan "staying at home to take care of their husbands and children" was gradually loosening, and more and more women began to enter the workplace and become office ladies.

At that time, women in the workplace were even worse off than they are now. Almost all of them suffered from unfair treatment, discrimination and sexual harassment.

When she joined TEPCO in 1980, the company enrolled a total of 204 college students, including three women, and she was one of them.

When Yasuko Watanabe was working at TEPCO, she began to vigorously promote the human rights of women in the workplace, calling on women to get rid of the label of "career vases."

She also works very hard to improve herself, hoping to be in a high position and change this situation.

Originally this was nothing.

But she succeeded!
Despite her multiple identities, including being 39 years old, a woman, and a resident of Okinawa Island, she rose all the way to the position of deputy director of the Planning Department at TEPCO (with an annual salary of 1500 million yen).

She also successfully shaped the image of women's human rights and female leaders in the company and society.

It can be said that Watanabe Yasuko’s BUFFs are fully stacked!

Rena Saito joined Kodansha, hoping to use her abilities to prove the necessity of women in the workplace, inspired by this predecessor.

Yet, such a woman who is recognized as one of the most successful women in society died inexplicably in a "lover's apartment" - "Xijuso" and nearby apartments are all "lover's apartments". To put it bluntly, they are cheap hourly rooms where street prostitutes would take their customers after soliciting them.

According to information leaked from the police, a number of used umbrellas were found at the scene, and several different types of JY were detected in Watanabe Yasuko's body.

The police initially concluded that she died from emotional breakdown after promiscuous sex.

When this news came out, the whole society and Japanese women were furious.

A TEPCO staff member told reporters that Watanabe Yasuko was a "suspiciously simple person" in the company.

"She has been in the company for nearly 20 years and she almost never wears makeup. And almost no colleagues have seen her go to the cafeteria to eat."

"Yasuko works very hard in the company. Sometimes she even sits aside and reads a lot of reports when colleagues have dinner together."

"About 13 or 14 years ago, Tae-ja's direct supervisor changed, and she was somewhat alienated by the upper management after that."

"She must have followed the wrong boss. Her first boss was a powerful man named Ohira Akira. But a few years later, Ohira Akira left Tepco, and Yasuko started to follow Katsumata, but later she offended Katsumata and was put on ice."

Employees had different opinions and rumors were spreading.

And this man named Daping Ming also came into the police's sight.

If you don’t check it, you don’t know.
Ohira Akira was the third son of Ohira Masayoshi, the then Prime Minister of Japan. Unfortunately, Ohira Masayoshi died suddenly shortly afterwards, and the Ohira family fell into decline in an instant.

Ohira Akira, who was originally a senior executive at TEPCO, was also transferred and became the top advisor to Taisho Pharmaceutical, and he remains in this position until now.

Katsumata, who replaced Ohira Akira, is not a good person.

When oil prices soared in the 80s, he took advantage of the situation to increase electricity prices by 50%, which brought huge profits to Tepco and helped him rise to prominence as well. However, behind his back, countless people cursed him for "making money from the country's misfortune and being a running dog of the Americans."

Katsumata also canceled a large number of internal company benefits, implemented the so-called wolf-like management, and took the lead in discriminating against women in the workplace, believing that they only needed to perform their duties as "vases" and "hot weapons" and that "work matters should be left to men."

Therefore, it is reasonable for him to target Yasuko Watanabe.

When things got to this point, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department could no longer sit idly by and dispatched a large number of police forces and crime-solving experts to investigate the matter thoroughly.

In order to calm public anger and show a fair attitude, 30% of the new police officers are female. Nako Hikigaya, who was just promoted to the Metropolitan Police Department, is one of them.

As the investigation deepened, more and more bizarre things were uncovered. "Before her death, Watanabe Yasuko left an apology letter, apologizing for defecating on the bed in the apartment. We also found a 'Sex Dealing Agreement'."

"__ and Shiori voluntarily engage in sexual intercourse under paid conditions. The amount is __, which Party A will pay in cash before the intercourse occurs. Party A and Party B both guarantee not to interfere with each other's personal life and not to disclose each other's identity information to third parties. Both parties have the right to terminate the relationship at any time and guarantee to pay the corresponding amount in full and on time before each intercourse occurs."

Kitagawa Hide was listening to Hikigaya Nako's information on the phone while looking at the outrageous agreement in his hand.

It was the first time he saw Fan Chunniang signing a contract with a customer. This Shiori was obviously the "stage name" used by Watanabe Yasuko.

During the day, she is a wealthy female executive at TEPCO, but at night she is a fallen woman selling sex on the street?

In short, this matter is full of weirdness and unreasonableness.

The more we investigate, the more we feel the enormous power of the consortium and the Americans behind TEPCO.

Compared with the powerful capital, Watanabe Yasuko, who was obviously killed and had to bear various stigmas after her death, is like the ordinary workers of all kinds in this country. No matter how hard they try, they cannot compete with capital.

If I want you to die, you die. If I want you to live, you live.

This feeling of suffocation is terrifying.

".That's roughly what happened. If there is any other information, I will tell you as soon as possible, Mr. Kitagawa." Hikigaya Nako held the phone. She was excited to finally be able to talk to her idol again after a long time!

"Thank you for your help. If the information is too private, you don't have to tell me." Kitagawa Hide didn't want to cause her trouble, so after hanging up the phone, he asked Yumeko to give her some financial feedback in the form of gifts.

Although we are good friends, we must be clear about money!

"Yes! If senior Watanabe knew that you were willing to write a book to speak for her, she would be very happy." The reason why Hikigaya Nako was so enthusiastic in providing information to Kitagawa Hide was because her idol decided to help uphold justice after reading this strange news.

really!

Regardless of offending the literary or political circles, Teacher Kitagawa remains unchanged, still sticks to his original intention, and is still the high-quality idol she is familiar with!

A while ago, she heard about Mr. Beichuan’s recommendation quota being stolen, and she was sulking for a while. She was also worried that Mr. Beichuan would not be able to bear it and would finally succumb to those people.

It seems that this worry is unnecessary!

After hanging up the phone, Kitagawa Hide sorted out the information at hand and quickly recalled the cause and process of the incident in his mind.

The murder of a TEPCO OL was listed as Japan's biggest unsolved case in 1997.

The result of the incident was that the police directly arrested the eyewitness, a black man from Nepal, and said he was the murderer, and then hastily closed the case.

Many years later, with the development of the Internet, various details, evidence, and people related to the incident have emerged one by one, and the full picture of the incident has gradually been revealed.

Among the many new versions, the most widely known and accepted one is that Yasuko Watanabe, while holding an important position, accidentally touched upon TEPCO's core interests and untouchable secrets - the nuclear power plant leakage problem.

This chain of interests includes TEPCO executives, the company president, top politicians, financial groups and the United States. These forces joined forces to extinguish this flame.

Throwing dirty water is also a warning and hint to women in the workplace.

It is also a warning to all workers under the rampant capital.

The sky belongs to Japan, or to the conglomerates and the United States.

At this point, some netizens have begun to speculate in this direction. Thanks to the current weak Internet supervision, no one cares about all kinds of outrageous remarks.

After seeing this news, Kitagawa Hide, who had been thinking hard about what new book to write, suddenly had an idea.

Highly developed capital, all-powerful financial groups, vicious politicians, extremely depressed workers, and an illusory utopia.
Haruki Murakami has a relatively unpopular science fiction novel, "The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland", which is very popular abroad and was later adapted into other films.

If the case of Yasuko Watanabe is really related to the nuclear power plant leak, then it is a topic that absolutely cannot be touched upon.

Even Kitagawa Hide was afraid of being shot in the back.

But he didn't need to write it so clearly.

In the book, I criticize the United States and capital, scold politicians, speak for the tragic deaths of women and the general public, and use metaphors like science fiction to save the country. You can't blame me, right?
I didn't mention this social event at all!
Having made up his mind, Kitagawa Hidewa said hello to Mengzi, then returned to his small study and began to practice in seclusion!
Writing "Remembrance of Things Past" and "The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" at the same time was quite stressful, and he had to ensure that he had sufficient mental energy and motivation!
the other side.

The February issue of "Wenyi" is on sale. This time there is no serialized book by Kitagawa Hide, but thanks to the high-quality new novels of his three disciples, it still firmly suppresses "Shincho".

Ichiro Tanizaki originally planned to publish an essay or something in this issue to increase the popularity and topic.

But before he finished writing the manuscript, he received a letter of condemnation from the Swedish Academy. Before he had time to open the letter, the Nobel Prize Committee sent another text message:

After discussion, the jury decided to formally cancel Naoki Momota's qualification for the Nobel Prize in Literature, and at the same time cancel the nomination qualifications of Ichiro Tanizaki, Sadatsugu Ichiko, and Shozo Uchida!
The penalty information will be made public on March 1997, 3.

When Ichiro Tanizaki looked at the letter, he felt as if the sky had suddenly fallen!

(End of this chapter)