Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 310: All Veins
"Party, no problem, OK."

"Don't worry, I will be there on time."

"OK Bye Bye!"

After Masato Takeshita hung up the phone call from Ichiro Haneda with a smile on his face, he couldn't help but stretch on the sofa with a nostalgic look.

We haven't seen each other for several months, and I don't know how he is doing now.

The time for the party soon arrived, and the young man arrived at the high-end private restaurant Ishimatsuya on time.

"Good evening, Haneda-senpai. I'm not busy lately."

"Iwaya-senpai, it's been a while since we last met. How's your career going?"

"Kishida-san, you're doing pretty well lately. I heard you're doing very well."

Masato Takeshita first briefly greeted a group of old acquaintances, then looked at the newcomer Masashi Miyamoto with a smile.

"Good evening, Miyamoto-senpai. I didn't expect to see you here."

"Hello, Takeshita-san. I was invited by Haneda-san."

Looking at the somewhat reserved Masashi Miyamoto, Masato Takeshita subconsciously raised his eyebrows.

"Senior, there's no need to be so polite. This is not a work environment."

Ichiro Haneda followed up, "Yes, we are at a private party, no need to be polite."

Then he added, "I didn't expect you two knew each other before. I was going to introduce you to each other."

The young man said as a matter of course: "I am the second largest shareholder of Square Enix, the company founded by Senior Miyamoto. How can I not know you?"

"Oh, so that's it."

Since everyone was a graduate of Waseda University, Masashi Miyamoto quickly integrated into the group.

While eating, everyone boasted about their past experiences in school.

After a while, the slightly drunk Haneda Ichiro said loudly with an exaggerated expression: "You are really amazing. You made such big news in such a short time."

Kishida Wenxiong followed suit and said, "Our junior brother Takeshita is really amazing. His moves are earth-shattering."

"Yes."

The calm Iwaya Takeshi also nodded, but his tone quickly changed, "But it is also a blessing for the Mainichi Shimbun to be favored by my junior. I heard that their current sales have exceeded 500 million copies."

"That's right, my junior is really amazing. The sales volume increased so much in an instant."

Masato Takeshita listened to everyone's praise and asked with a smile, "Why are they all saying it's my contribution? Can't the daily news trigger a rebound at the low point?"

Ichiro Haneda curled his lips in disdain, "Impossible, with those stupid brains of the Mainichi Shimbun, it's impossible for them to think of something like a ranking list."

"How dare you edit the daily news like this? Aren't you afraid that the content of the party will be leaked and reporters will hate you?"

Ichiro Haneda waved his hands nonchalantly, "I'm just a bank clerk. I'm not newsworthy at all. Why report on me?"

Everyone discussed the resurgence of the daily news for more than ten minutes.

However, due to different identities, everyone says different things.

For example, Iwaya Takeshi and Kishida Mono have already entered politics, so they are more reserved in their words and dare not offend reporters.

Ichiro Haneda and Tadashi Yanai have no plans to go into politics, so their words are more casual.

When Masato Takeshita didn't want to be surrounded by praise during the party, he began to change the subject rudely and bluntly.

"You're only talking about me. I don't know how everyone else is doing lately."

Then he looked at Iwaya Takeshi, "How are you doing lately, Iwaya-san? Is everything going well?"

Iwaya Takeshi showed a helpless expression, "Everyone knows the recent situation. I can only work in the constituency."

Iwaya Takeshi was once the secretary of Kunio Hatoyama, the second son of the Hatoyama family, and belonged to the Hatoyama family.

As a result, Yukio Hatoyama, the eldest son of the Hatoyama family, left the Liberal Democratic Party and criticized the party's various conservative policies.

If that were all, it wouldn't be a big deal.

The key point is that this year the Liberal Democratic Party actually lost control of the Japanese government and became the opposition party for the first time after the merger.

This time, the Hatoyama family was exposed. Iwaya Takeshi was caught in the middle and naturally had a very difficult time.

Of course, it's not that serious.

After all, Kunio Hatoyama is still within the Liberal Democratic Party and has inherited more political capital from the Hatoyama family.

Those who play politics will understand.

A family can have idealists, but not all of them. Someone is needed to protect the hard-earned political resources. Kunio Hatoyama is the guardian of the family resources.

"It's okay. We are still young and things will turn around sooner or later."

The LDP lost power during Kiichi Miyazawa's tenure, and nothing happened in the end.

Since all the politicians present were members of the Liberal Democratic Party, the topic of politics ended quickly.

No one wants to talk too much about scars.

Especially Kishida Mon'o and Suzuki Shun'ichi, they are members of the Hongchikai, and the boss is Miyazawa Kiichi.

Since there is nothing to talk about politics, we can only talk about economy and life.

Although the Japanese economy is still bad, the presidents present here are all running their companies successfully.

Needless to say, Xinghai Group has been growing at an exaggerated rate every year.

The operating system incident, in particular, can be said to have greatly boosted the country's prestige.

Since then, Japan has not only had its own operating system, but has also successfully expanded its scope to the whole of Asia.

Although most of them are backward countries, the Japanese are already very satisfied.

This is also the most important factor in the increasingly smooth development of Xinghai Group in Japan.

Most Japanese are patriotic, and when they hear that it is the Xinghai Group, they are happy to help.

After Uniqlo, founded by Tadashi Yanai, received investment from Star Ocean Capital, it developed very rapidly.

Not only does it have more than 200 clothing stores in Japan, it also has 3 stores each in Los Angeles and New York in the United States.

As for Masashi Miyamoto, although he failed to create greater glory after inheriting Denyusha, he made steady progress, which made everyone very satisfied.

After all, the most important thing for a large enterprise is not to create greater glory, but to maintain its foundation.

In addition, Square Enix, which he handed over to his subordinates to manage, is currently doing well.

The only thing that made him unhappy was that he was too restricted by Nintendo.

This is also the most important reason why Masashi Miyamoto chose to give up the gaming industry.

The company has no operational autonomy and its life and death are always controlled by others.

If Nintendo is displeased one day, it will be a disaster for the game company.

Masashi Miyamoto’s thinking is correct. In the past, Square Enix offended Nintendo, and its game, which was originally very profitable, suffered huge losses.

But everything starts with a sip.

Having offended Nintendo, Square Enix accelerated its move closer to Sony and eventually became the dominant third-party company in the gaming industry.

There is so much to say about the Xinghai Group, so everyone will focus on Masashi Miyamoto and others first.

"There's nothing much going on here. I just run the company as planned. As for the game company, I've almost given up on it. It's fine as long as it can still make money."

Without expectations, naturally there would be less thoughts. So in his previous life, after Square suffered a huge loss from the movie business, he could calmly accept the loss of his position as the largest shareholder.

As long as we can still make money every year, it doesn’t matter if we lose the controlling stake.

Of course, being able to accept it doesn’t mean not being angry.

In a rage, several responsible persons were fired or demoted.

However, he still had some feelings for him, so the culprit Hironobu Sakaguchi was only demoted.

Unfortunately, due to the influence of the times, the Final Fantasy Online game he led in development had a difficult start and was losing hundreds of millions of yen every month.

Square Enix had just experienced the failure of a movie and could no longer bear the pressure, so it had no choice but to go the path of merger.

The emergence of the new company allowed the father of Final Fantasy to finally leave in a dignified manner.

However, the company also paid him a retirement pension of 2 million yen, so he was not treated unfairly.

After hearing what Masashi Miyamoto said, Masato Takeshita immediately had an idea in his mind.

However, judging from the senior's attitude, he seems to be very satisfied with Square's current situation.

"Forget it, let's just wait a little longer. You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry."

Tadashi Yanai's company was still in its early stages of development and had even less to say about, so it was soon Masato Takeshita's turn.

However, he did not talk about internal company matters, but instead talked about topics that everyone was more interested in.

"The government is promoting rural revitalization, so our company is also preparing to join in the fun and move some parts factories to underdeveloped areas."

"I wonder if Senior Kishida, Senior Iwaya, and Senior Suzuki could give me some leeway."

"Of course, it's an honor."

Several people responded in unison, with expressions of joy flashing in their eyes.

This is a great opportunity to consolidate our electoral base, how can we not agree?

After appeasing the politicians, Ichiro Haneda, who is more of a friend, naturally cannot be forgotten.

"Senior Haneda, I'll have to trouble you with the loan for the new factory when the time comes."

"It's a small matter, don't worry."

Although Xinghai Group has many huge loans, who would complain about having too many profitable businesses?

Not only can you get a large commission, but it also involves future promotion issues.

Without the long-term support of young people, he would never have been able to become the branch president of Hitachi City in his early 30s.

With the young man's interest transfer, everyone had a more pleasant dinner. In other words, he was clean and self-disciplined. If it were someone else, they would have come to provide a one-stop service.

Of course, the most lavish in this regard is the TV station, especially Fuji TV, which is controlled by Sankei Shimbun, and can be said to be the epitome of it.

The TV station pimps all kinds of things, letting beautiful female anchors serve famous stars, senior government officials, and business tycoons.

The tip of the iceberg revealed in later generations was enough to shock everyone.

Relatively speaking, the situation of TV Asahi controlled by Asahi Shimbun, TBS TV controlled by Mainichi Shimbun, and Nippon Television controlled by Yomiuri Shimbun is slightly better.

Since these TV stations are backed by social daily newspapers, doing similar things can easily alienate their own users.

It doesn't matter about Fuji TV. It is backed by the Japan Sankei Shimbun and mainly introduces economic-related content. The public's reputation is not that important.

This may be the biggest difference between having scruples and not having scruples.

It's not pure and innocent, but it's dangerous enough.

Of course, the entertainment industry itself is synonymous with chaos, so it is not surprising that TV stations are involved in it.

After the dinner, everyone left. After seeing everyone off, Masato Takeshita took Ichiro Haneda to have a private gathering.

"Haneda-san, are the brothers and the others doing well lately?"

“There are a lot of bad debts, but it’s okay.”

"That's it."

Ichiro Haneda leaned back, crossed his legs and asked, "Why, is there something wrong?"

"Well, I want to take over Subaru from you guys."

"Subaru, this is not a good place. Nissan is very strong, and it will be difficult for you to succeed even if you get the shares."

The battle between Nissan and Kogyo is known to everyone who has some status in the two companies.

At present, Industrial Bank has been hit hard and can hardly withstand the attack from Nissan, let alone Xinghai Group.

“I believe that with a little more money, we can solve the problem of Nissan.”

Nissan doesn't take Subaru seriously at all. After all, Subaru has nothing except horizontal driving.

As long as Xinghai Group pays enough, it won’t be a problem at all.

Even if we wait another two years, Nissan will ask Youngman to acquire it.

This company is really disappointing. Not only did it lose its number one position in Japan, it also pushed itself to the brink of bankruptcy several times.

Later generations even tried to merge with Honda, which basically means that the company is dead.

Subaru, on the other hand, has been getting stronger and stronger. Although its sales volume is not good, its profit has long exceeded that of Nissan, which is a typical example of making a fortune in silence.

"Okay, I'll ask for you and try to find out."

"Yeah, that's what I thought."

Apart from Subaru cars, Xingye has nothing that interests him for the time being.

Masato Takeshita found an excuse to change the topic and prepared to talk about something lighter.

"Would you like to attend the year-end Inamon clan party?"

"Are you going to roast me on the fire? I don't want to be the little chicken that enters the tiger park."

"Uh, mine, mine."

The young man chuckled twice and then changed the subject.

"Well, I'm planning to travel to Hawaii during the New Year. Do you want to come with me?"

After Izumi Sakai gave birth to a daughter, the two have not traveled far away.

This time I must go out for a walk and relieve stress.

"Forget it. I don't want to be a light bulb."

"You guy. By the way, I heard you're getting married next year?"

Ichiro Haneda's parents have already chosen a marriage partner for him, but he has been procrastinating and now may not be able to withstand the pressure.

"We'll be getting married next year, and I'll send you an invitation then."

"No problem, I'll be there on time."

Masato Takeshita clapped his hands and agreed readily.

"You guy, stop gloating."

He hadn't had enough fun yet and really didn't want to get married. But there was really nothing he could do. The pressure from his family was no longer something he could resist.

"Don't bite anyone randomly. I'm not gloating."

He himself is not married, so naturally he doesn't care about others.

Masato Takeshita only asked about it because he heard about it.

"Oh, my bad. I envy you for being able to choose your lifestyle freely."

"I envy you for starting your own business. If you succeed, you can do whatever you want."

"You're hurting me again. Isn't starting a business now a way to get yourself killed?"

It is now 1993, not 1990. Even the most stubborn Japanese know that the economy is not doing well.

Ichiro Haneda is in the banking system, so he naturally understands it better.

Besides, even during an economic upturn, starting a business is a life of danger, which is not suitable for his lazy nature at all.

"Yes, I want you to understand that you should not be ungrateful for what you have. There are many people who can't even find a job right now."

"Yeah, you talk a lot, and you're right."

(End of this chapter)