I am a literary giant in Japan

".Tengo's father became a temporary fee collector for NHK with the guarantee of an official.

So he worked diligently and willingly, and because of his excellent performance and serious work attitude, he was hired as a full-time employee. After that, he worked collecting money day after day for decades. In Tengo's words, "Becoming a cashier at NHK is the ultimate perfect ending."

In this way, a person who once lived at the bottom of society, through unremitting efforts, finally found his own place in the pyramid structure of society.

He was content to belong to a large organization. At any rate, he had finally secured his place at the bottom of the totem pole."

When reading this passage, Rena Saito, who also climbed up from the bottom, was deeply touched.

She could even understand the satisfaction of belonging to a huge organization more than Tengo's father in the book.

From my home in the countryside, I followed my parents to the colorful metropolis of Tokyo.

Reina Saito and her family are working hard to become true Tokyoites.

My father in the company bows and scrapes to his superiors every day, just like Mr. Nohara in "Crayon Shin-chan". If he could, he would even be willing to lick his boss's shoes for a promotion.

The mother at home diligently fulfills her responsibilities as a housewife, taking care of three children, preparing everything for her husband after a busy day, and enduring the ridicule of her neighbors, fantasizing that one day she can truly integrate into the community of Tokyo.
Reina Saito, who was still in high school at the time, endured the nickname "country girl" given to her by other students in school. However, she studied hard and strived to be admitted to the University of Tokyo, which would allow her to stand out!
If the six major financial groups that control the lifeline of Japan's economy are a giant impenetrable net, then all of them are flies stuck in the net.

Flying insects never think about how to escape from the giant net, but only think about how to better integrate into it and then persuade other flying insects to stay here together.

As a cashier for NHK, Tengo's father found a sense of belonging to society, but this also made him deeply trapped in it, because the system is destined to break and smooth out certain parts of human nature.

Being in an organization, one will gradually lose freedom and subjectivity, and eventually become a person without color.

In the Tengo chapter, Tengo repeatedly mentions that his father had a colorful life before he became a NHK cashier.

When he himself told Tengo about that period of his life, there were happy stories, sad plots, and violent scenes. The details were vivid and the narration was colorful.

"If life can be measured by the variety of anecdotes and adventures, his life can be called quite rich.

But when it comes to what happened after he was hired as a full-time NHK employee, for some reason, my father's story suddenly loses its color and sense of reality.

His account was lacking in detail and fragmented, as if this was just an afterthought that was not worth mentioning to him.”

"This is so realistic and scary." Shizuko Kawaide's background made it impossible for her to empathize with Tengo and Tengo's father.

But when she saw that Tengo's father asked to wear the NHK uniform even before his death, she was instantly frightened by a force that was enough to strike deep into her soul.

The Kawaide family is a new consortium that has quietly risen in recent years.

But as its wealth grew, the Kawade Group was inevitably heading towards the six major groups.

After all, that is the benchmark of Japanese conglomerates and their undeniable final destination.

NHK is a media outlet controlled by the Mitsubishi Group and has repeatedly served the Liberal Democratic Party, to which Keizo Obuchi and others belong.

Tengo's father's life mirrors the lives of countless NHK regular employees.

Even the lives of many civil servants are not much different from his.

The only difference is how much money they earn and the difference in social status.

Kitagawa Hide wrote about the religious group "Pioneer" in "1Q84".

Its prototype, Aum Shinrikyo, is well known to everyone in Japan.

But for many people, it is still a relatively distant thing that only exists on TV, newspapers and magazines.

In the complete version of "1Q84", the dirty and disgusting things in "The Pioneer" were not deleted, and many operating logics and behind-the-scenes relationships also surfaced one by one.

Even Kawade Shizuko and Saito Rena felt a chill of fear on their backs after reading those plots.

“It turns out that real cults are so terrifying and bloody! They not only brainwash their followers, but also use everything of their followers to achieve their own goals!
I originally thought that the Aum Shinrikyo thing was just a matter of willingness, but I didn’t expect that once I was successfully brainwashed by them, I would no longer be myself! ”

Shizuko Kawaide now has some understanding of why Kitagawa Hide would risk being criticized and targeted by half of Japan's upper class and members of Congress by bringing up old issues and putting the matter of clearing out the remnants of Aum Shinrikyo on the agenda.

For those remnants of Aum Shinrikyo who are still alive, it doesn't matter whether they are dead or alive.

They will never get out of Tokyo Prison again in their lifetime.

The problem is, the people who protect them and use them are the most terrifying ones.

They have resources, power and wealth, and can control the life of an ordinary citizen at any time.

Indeed, in modern society, even the prime minister and the helmsman of a conglomerate who are high up in the world cannot make a living person disappear at will.

But the “hounds” they raise are good!

"No wonder the Prime Minister's Cabinet and the Ministry of Education have to issue an official version
With regard to the content of this complete edition, who else would dare to publish it except our Hede Bookstore?"

If she had watched "1Q84 (full version)" in advance, Shizuko Kawaide would have been hesitant for a while.

This is the feeling of being at war with the world.

"Beichuan always does something unexpected."

Rena Saito thinks that "1Q84" is good to watch, and it has a feeling of combining the anti-war literature "The Strange-Bird Shape Chronicle" and "Killing Commendatore", with the pure feeling of Hideki Kitagawa.

The originally depressing and painful story is now covered with a layer of youthful love.

Aomame, the heroic and beautiful woman with a dual personality, and Tengo, who is also a two-faced man, are both very likable characters.

".No matter what kind of system, individual decisions are rarely recognized.

For example, when Asahara wanted to impose something on the members of the cult, he first had to train them not to make their own judgments.

They call it absolute conversion, I call it closed circuit.

The loop is closed to prevent derailment, and one can only run in the direction determined from above, like a mouse.

As a result, people were deprived of their sense of direction and driven into a situation where they could not even judge whether the force forcing them was good or evil.

If it is an open circuit, it is possible to make personal judgments to a certain extent.

But this is not possible in a closed circuit.

Some people say, when you were ordered to spread sarin gas, couldn't you say no?
Why don't you just run away with the bag of poison gas?

However, once you enter this closed circuit, this kind of thing is basically impossible to happen.

Legally, this behavior must be ruled as a crime and must be sentenced to death from a sentencing perspective.

I felt this fear deeply in the court of Hayashi Masumi's trial. If I were to ask where Asahara learned this system from, I think it was state power.

In the past, during the war years, militarists closed the circuit through thorough ideological indoctrination and imposed orders to kill others from top to bottom.

In a practical sense, both the leaders and the executors below are, without exception, damned perpetrators.

But what is horrifying is that when the executioners were about to be executed, they were unable to understand the meaning of the verdict at all.

I watched several documentaries and found that they all had no idea why they were sentenced to death.

Regarding this point, I personally think that this is something more terrifying than the remnants of Aum Shinrikyo and something that needs to be eliminated more urgently.

Who is leading these, directing these, and implementing these?”

北川秀在《1Q84（完整版）（BOOK1：4月-6月）》的最后，还写了一篇长长的后记。

In the first half of the postscript, he informed readers that "1Q84" will have even more exciting BOOK 2 and 3, so everyone can look forward to it.

In the second half of the postscript, he clearly elaborated his views on these things and the so-called system.

The second half of this postscript was introduced into the University of Tokyo textbooks by the current Dean of the Faculty of Letters, Osamu Takeuchi, and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Ryo Ukai.

Starting from April 1999, this passage will officially become a must-read for every freshman joining the Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tokyo!

Kitagawa Hide's "radical remarks" made some people in the Department of Political Science of the Political Department of the University of Tokyo very uncomfortable.

They and the family forces behind them have mobilized resources and used various means to question the authenticity of "1Q84" and whether Kitagawa Hide's remarks were suspected of misleading the public.

The Prime Minister's cabinet led by Keizo Obuchi and the Ministry of Education led by Nobutaka Machimura simply played dead and did not participate in the discussion of this topic at all.

The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Defense were quite supportive and directly supported Kitagawa Hide with actions.

On December 1998, 12, the Minister of Justice publicly stated that the remnants of the cult who were still eating and drinking lavishly in Tokyo Prison would be executed after the new year.

The victims and their families whose lives are becoming increasingly difficult due to secondary disasters will also receive financial assistance from the Ministry of Finance and will no longer be left alone.

Of course, the root of the problem lies with the members of Congress in both the House and Senate.

They, as well as the two major conglomerates of Mitsubishi and Sumitomo that silently supported them behind the scenes, took advantage of the background of "Tokyo University's political science department" and set off an "anti-Kitagawa Hide" storm in the political arena.

Nagai Kazufu, who also stood on the opposite side of Kitagawa Hide, enjoyed another wave of traffic and resources. The "Flowers of Hell" he wrote continued to open high and continue to rise, which made the December issue of "New Wenxiang" also rise steadily and became a hot national magazine.

Interestingly, the first-day data for the December issues of "Wenyi" and "12Q1 (full version)" were not announced on the 84th.

Oricon, a company focused on data analysis, was also hit.

The financial backers behind them include conglomerates and members of Congress.

These bigwigs realized that they could not allow Kitagawa Hide to continue to be so unscrupulous, so they forcibly suppressed the data and prevented it from being exposed the next day.

This move was truly something that Kitagawa Hide and Kawaide Shizuko had not expected.

Over the past three years, Oricon, which became Japan's number one data company by promoting the TV series "Hear the Wind Sing", has become the first source of authentic data recognized by all citizens.

Now they have been silenced, and other rumors are flying around, but the public’s attitude is that they don’t believe anyone and are just waiting for their “real data”.

That evening, Kawade Shobo and Kitagawa Entertainment, which had urgently conducted a wave of statistics and analysis, announced the first-day sales data of the two books online and offline at the same time.

The December issue of "Wenyi" sold 12 million copies on its first printing day;

"1Q84 (Complete Edition)" sold a total of 166.1 million copies on the first day of printing, with an additional 309.7 million copies sold in online pre-sales.

“A total of 475.8 million copies were sold on the first day of printing? Do you know how many readers there are in the Japanese literature market now?

Even a novel wouldn’t dare to write like this! "

Nagai Kazufu was reading the evening edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun and almost laughed out loud at the data.

He knew that the sales of "1Q84 (Complete Edition)" would definitely not be bad, and would most likely be better than the official version, but this data was a bit exaggerated.

This includes 124.9 million copies of Literature and Art.

The size of Japan's pure literature market is there.

Even though the market has attracted traffic in recent years thanks to the popular books of a group of new-school writers such as Master and Apprentice Kitagawa Hide, the market is still at most less than 2000 million paying audiences.

The reason why Kitagawa Hide's three most popular novels were able to achieve a total sales volume of 1000 million copies is thanks to his fame overseas and the fact that many people helped to increase sales.

This can be seen from the fact that after the monthly sales of "Wenyi" exceeded 700 million copies at one point, it has never reached this ceiling again.

Nowadays, when there is no serialization of Kitagawa Hide's novels, the monthly sales of "Wenyi" are generally stable at 200-250 million copies, while when Kitagawa Hide's novels are serialized, the average monthly sales are between 700-750 million copies.

This data also proves the fact that the total size of the pure literature market is only 2000 million.

According to the data released by Kawaide Shobo and Kitagawa Entertainment, the December issue of "Wenyi" has a great chance of reaching the ultimate market ceiling of 12 million copies.

That's fine.

With such a huge amount of traffic, it might be able to touch this ceiling.

But "1Q84 (Complete Edition)" sold 475.8 million copies on the first day of printing?

Isn’t this a bit too disrespectful of people in the industry?
It can only be used to deceive those unsuspecting fans of Kitagawa Hideshu!
Nagai Kazufu laughed in anger, thinking that the other party's actions had become distorted after losing the data of Oricon.

With such powerful resources and financial support, his "Flower of Hell" is obviously superior.

"New Literary Image" has sold nearly 400 million copies so far, and it is possible that it has reached its ceiling.

I haven't lost yet!
But why.

But why.

Why are my hands holding the newspaper shaking?

Nagai Kazufu saw through the gap in the newspaper the book "1Q84 (Complete Edition)" on the table, which he had almost read to pieces.

Only those who have read that book know how terrifying Hide Kitagawa's talent and creative ability are.

“You can’t win, you can’t win at all.

An equal opponent? You must be joking." (End of this chapter)