I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 293: The man who became the "number one in the world" booked the entire Tokyo Tower to propose!
No one expected that it would be Ichiro Tanizaki who would eventually deify Kitagawa Hide.

When the word "he" was uttered, Tetsutaro Mori, Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, Osamu Takeuchi and others all held their breath.

Sensing the inexplicable and subtle atmosphere in the lecture hall, Modiano quickly leaned over and asked Yoshikawa Hiroyuki in a low voice: "Excuse me, what did Mr. Ichiro Tanizaki say? Why do everyone have such strange expressions?"

"He" Hiroyuki Yoshikawa was still trapped in Tanizaki Ichiro's words.

After a while, he realized that he had lost his composure, and he quickly lowered his body, leaned close to Modiano and whispered: "The reporter asked Mr. Ichiro Tanizaki who he thought was the best writer in our Japanese literary world, and Mr. Ichiro Tanizaki replied that he thought it was Mr. Hide Kitagawa."

"I see." Modiano roughly understood the feud between Kitagawa Hide and Tanizaki Ichiro by piecing together information from here and there.

If the six major conglomerates and elites from all walks of life had not intervened, the two would not have fought to the death, but now, this is a conflict that cannot be resolved.

Now that Ichiro Tanizaki has publicly said the word "he" in front of countless reporters and students, it also means that the competition for the "number one in the world" in the Japanese literary world that has lasted for half a year has officially come to an end.

"Ah, I see. Thank you for your answer, Mr. Tanizaki. I have finished asking my questions."

Mori Tetsutarou finally reacted, bowed politely at 90 degrees to express his gratitude, and then sat back in his seat amidst all the astonished gazes.

After he sat down, his tightly clenched fists loosened inch by inch, cold sweat broke out on his back without him noticing, and he looked like he was exhausted.

This question was originally intended to disgust Ichiro Tanizaki.

After witnessing Kitagawa's sudden popularity in France and the French people's admiration for him, everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before Kitagawa became the "number one" in the Japanese literary world.

But an old fox like Ichiro Tanizaki will certainly not give up his position easily, and will most likely take this title to the grave.

With the confidence in his heart, Tetsutaro Mori, the top Kitagawa fan in the literary criticism world, naturally had to disgust Ichiro Tanizaki and let Mr. Kitagawa vent his anger.

Anyway, there is nothing wrong with asking questions. Even if I ask, you don't have to answer. Even if you answer, it doesn't have to be your true thoughts.

But no one expected that Ichiro Tanizaki would admit this fact so readily, and would end the question with the simplest and most straightforward "he", thus putting an end to the doubts that lingered in the minds of countless people.

I seem to have been involved in a historical event somehow.
Have I become the person who drives the development of history?

Tetsutarou Mori didn't notice the gazes coming from all around him.

His mind was full of these two sentences, and his heart was ecstatic and shaking.

For more than two years, he has firmly followed the footsteps of Teacher Beichuan. No matter whether Teacher Beichuan is at a high point or in a low point, he has always supported and spoken for him as he did in the beginning.

And the flowers that have been carefully watered over the years suddenly bloom and bear fruit at this moment!

The sweet feeling filled his heart and made him feel elated.

For countless days and nights, he often fantasized that one day he would be recorded in the history of Japanese literature together with Teacher Kitagawa.

This day came so quickly!
The reporters who had also come to their senses seemed to have their souls returned. They all raised their cameras again and started taking pictures, recording this most classic scene.

Ichiro Tanizaki's final conclusion on the dispute over "the best in the world" in Japanese literary circles caused a huge sensation throughout Japan.

After the literary exchange meeting between the University of Tokyo and the University of Paris ended, hundreds of reporters from various TV stations poured out of the Yasuda Auditorium like a torrent, running outside like crazy.

Students from other departments who were passing by were startled by the shocking scene and thought that a zombie crisis had broken out.

It was not until someone curiously pulled a literature student who rushed out to ask him a question that they found out that this was what had happened.

At noon that day.

The five major television channels, Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS, NHK, Fuji TV, NTV and TV Asahi, were the first to interrupt the midday news about Ichiro Tanizaki's "surrender".

The hosts who were reading the script were also very excited. A well-known female host from Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS was a die-hard fan of Kitagawa Hide. She even shed tears of joy while reporting the news and shouted, "Mr. Kitagawa, congratulations! Mr. Kitagawa is the real 'No. 1 in the world' in our hearts!"

This kind of news broadcast with strong personal emotional coloring will usually be cut off directly by the station.

But when the director backstage saw that the ratings of the news program were skyrocketing, he gritted his teeth and stopped the interruption request, and forced the Taiwanese beauty to speak for three minutes while crying and laughing.

This scene was also recorded by someone and became a wonderful moment for people to reminisce about the classics in the future.

A large number of official print media, led by the Yomiuri Shimbun, also published supplements at lightning speed, using the space of an entire small newspaper to report the incident and comment on this "world's number one" competition.

Praise, recognition, and boasting were heard everywhere, but this time, there was no longer a single voice in public opinion that supported Ichiro Tanizaki and Shinchosha.

Shinchosha, abandoned by the Mitsubishi Group, is like a dead pig, and the company headquarters is lifeless, which reminds people of the depressing Kodansha headquarters before Noma Sawako was arrested.

Ichiro Tanizaki's defeat and surrender was so sudden and complete that Shinchosha was even discussing whether they should continue to inflate sales data and compete head-on with this issue of "Wenyi".

Unexpectedly, before the data-boosting plan was finalized, their world collapsed.

The president staggered out of the meeting room, returned to the office and made more than a dozen phone calls, finally confirming the exact news that Shinchosha had been abandoned by multiple forces and consortiums.

This is the Japanese conglomerate.

After you are no longer of any use to me, I will give up on you without even saying hello, and let you shoulder everything!
A large number of Shinchosha's behind-the-scenes shareholders had secretly completed internal transactions of their shares before the morning. Without even waiting for the opening of the Tokyo Stock Exchange tomorrow, Shinchosha's stock price had already fallen to the bottom.

This wave is the consortium's sacrifice to save the king, and it is also their compromise with Kitagawa Hide, the rising star and the future number one in the world.

No matter how little the Japanese literary world has to say in the world literary world, it is the spiritual world of countless people in the country.

What's more, Kitagawa Hide has been shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature, won the Prix Goncourt, and became the first Japanese writer to become famous in France.

He was only twenty-five.

Young people of his age usually just graduated from college and have been working in society for less than two years.

His future is limitless.

He and the new literary faction headed by him will be the absolute pillars of the Japanese literary world in the next thirty or even fifty years!
What's wrong with giving up some money for such a writer who is destined to go down in history, being submissive to him and nodding your head?
It's better than losing both your money and your life, and also being criticized.

On the other hand, the Prime Minister's Cabinet, which was under great pressure, also issued a notice through the Supreme Court to re-examine the case of the murder of the TEPCO OL.

No matter what the final result is, this face must be given.

The elites from all walks of life who cheered for Kitagawa Hide made a lot of money. The stars with business acumen came out to congratulate Mr. Kitagawa and hinted that "I am willing to give anything if we can cooperate." Anyway, no matter whether it is true cooperation or not, even if you can have an ambiguous relationship with Mr. Kitagawa's dog, you have a promising future!
The most outrageous are the two TV series in which Hide Kitagawa participated. It’s okay to rebroadcast "Ultraman Tiga", after all, many dramas contain content that educates the nation, but what about "Long Vacation"?

This is too much of a hype!
In the music industry, Izumi Sakai is the undisputed god.

Her song "No. 1 in My Heart" directly topped the Oricon chart, and her popularity seemed to surpass that of the three great singers of the Showa era (Akina Nakamori, Seiko Matsuda, and Kyoko Koizumi).

There are many unlucky people.

Just as Shizuko Kawaide said, while some people are promoted to high positions, others are liquidated overnight.

Those members of parliament who openly supported Ichiro Tanizaki and belittled Kitagawa Hide did not even have the chance to bow and apologize or say that they were "blind". Instead, they were pelted with rotten eggs by the voters and have completely lost the possibility of running for the Senate next year.

The sales of the April 1997 issue of Shincho dropped significantly, and at Kawaide Shobo, the distribution department and printing factory were so busy that they were almost smoking.

The amount that Mitsui Group helped to brush is no longer important.

Now all major bookstores are out of stock 24 hours a day, and the streets are blocked by readers queuing up for the Japanese version of "Remembrance of Things Past" published by Kawaide Shobo.

They said angrily, "Kawaide Shobo and Wen Yi Magazine betrayed us!" Why did they choose to publish such a great novel first in France? Don't we Japanese readers deserve to read it?
The cause of this incident was actually Kitagawa Hide.

But readers will not look for the reasons in their idols!

Anyway, the ones who are wrong must be the hateful capitalists!

That’s how The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland are written!
Just tell me if it’s true!
Shizuko Kawaide held an emergency press conference with a smile, and then went through the usual procedures, apologizing, bowing, saying that she would not make the same mistake again, and then solemnly stating that "Remembrance of Things Past" would be published at the end of May.

At the end, she also helped promote the "online shopping" channel of Kitagawa Hide's personal website.

Today, this online shopping channel is also a major source of profit for Wen Yi and the physical books written by Kitagawa Hide.

The old fogies on the board couldn't understand why anyone would dare to buy things online.

Why is the shopping experience in physical bookstores so great, but the risks online so great?

The "culprit" who caused all this was currently directing Shiro and others to set up the proposal scene near the Tokyo Tower.

In Japan, due to the influence of Western culture, marriage proposal has become a part of traditional weddings.

Usually men will propose to women at a specific time and place as a romantic ritual.

In the early Showa era, reserved Japanese people only proposed in simple places such as parks and restaurants. However, in the bubble era, wealthy Japanese people began to pursue luxury and pomp. Many proposal design companies came into being, and all kinds of outrageous proposal ceremonies emerged one after another.

For example, there was a buddy who rode around Japan and placed special roses made by a marriage proposal company all over the map of Japan, drew a big heart on it, and put an arrow through it!

After the bubble burst, those who should divorce divorced, those who should jump off buildings jumped off buildings, the housing and stock markets killed a lot of people, and something as ritualistic as proposing was also simplified.

Kitagawa Hide contacted many people and finally found several decent proposal design companies. Then, with the help of many parties, he spent about 1.5 million yen to book the Tokyo Tower and the surrounding area for six hours.

Tokyo Tower is located at 2-8-332.6 Shibakoen, Minato-ku. It is a -meter-high radio tower. Later, observation decks, science museums, wax museums, aquariums and other facilities were added to the tower.

It was built based on the model of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. On January 1989, 1, the Tokyo Tower changed its lighting method from only lighting the outline to illuminating the entire tower. The entire tower can display seven different neon lights, making it a holy place for countless couples to confess their love and propose marriage.

But tonight.

Tokyo Tower and a small area nearby will temporarily belong only to Kitagawa Hide and Agatsuma Yumeko.

1.5 million yen for the private screening fee is not a lot, and there are many wealthy people who can afford it.

Many people came up with this idea, but they were all rejected by Tokyo Tower Corporation, which controls Tokyo Tower.

The main shareholders of Tokyo Tower Corporation are the government and Mitsui Group, so it does not have to rely on others.

Kitagawa Hide's great victory this time allowed the Mitsui Group, which had always been suppressed by the Mitsubishi Group, to vent its anger.

After seeing the news and newspapers in the afternoon, the Mitsui family, one of the powerful families of the Mitsui Group, directly bought the full copyright of "Remembrance of Things Past" and "The World's End and Hard-Boiled Wonderland" for 28 billion yen.

After learning that Mr. Kitagawa was busy proposing to his fiancée, the Mitsui family took the initiative to propose this proposal.

1997 5 Month 12 Day.

6pm to midnight.

Tokyo Tower and the surrounding area were blocked by dozens of special police officers dispatched from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Not long after, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office and other relevant departments also came over to assist in setting up the cordon, and the traffic department worked hard to clear the traffic situation in the vicinity.

All major radio and television stations broke into the news about this new "proposal news".

At 5:50 p.m., a large number of people gathered near the Tokyo Tower, looking at the dim Tokyo Tower with curiosity and anticipation.

Mr. Kitagawa doesn't look like a literary writer at all.

Spending 1.5 million yen to propose to his fiancée!

This is too romantic and too luxurious!

Kitagawa Hide's words and deeds also symbolize a new generation of writers in the Japanese literary world who are more energetic and charming.

Olivia, who came to watch the ceremony, was so romantic that she felt envious and jealous, and imagined herself to be "my wife Yumeko".

Five fifty-five.

More and more people are coming.

Nako Hikigaya, who was assigned as one of the special operations commanders, had a big head, but when she vaguely saw Mr. Kitagawa heading towards Tokyo Tower, she smiled happily again.

Five fifty-eight.

A Rolls-Royce Silver Thor slowly drove into the restricted area.

(End of this chapter)