Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 52 The Shining Man

Although Masato Takeshita has already approved Nichia Chemical's conditions, the necessary procedures still have to be followed.

Soon, the lawyers from the law firm and the accountants from Deloitte began to get busy.

"There is no problem with the contract."

“There is no problem with the account.”

Nichia Chemical is a small company, and its contracts and accounts are very simple.

Not long after, the law firm and Deloitte gave positive answers.

"OK, got it."

Since there was no problem, Masato Takeshita did not waste any time and simply signed his name.

It is a huge profit to acquire a future LED giant company with only 50 billion yen.

As soon as the contract was signed, Takeshita Masato asked with a smile, "Can I see your company's R&D department?"

If he had not been worried about affecting the signing, he would have wanted to meet Shuji Nakamura, the future Nobel Prize-level star, a long time ago.

Now that the dust has settled, it’s natural to meet the man who was the primary factor in Nichia Chemical’s rise.

"Of course, please come this way."

In fact, Eiji Ogawa didn't really want to go to the R&D department, but seeing that Masato Takeshita was very interested, he reluctantly agreed.

“Is this the company’s R&D department?”

Masato Takeshita looked at the shabby room in front of him and was a little bit unbelieving.

Although he knew that the R&D environment of Nichia Chemical was not good, he didn't expect it to be this bad. To call it a laboratory of the R&D department was really flattering it. It was just a shabby warehouse for storing sundries.

"Yes, it's here. The company was relatively weak before, and didn't have enough money to support Mr. Nakamura to conduct experiments." Ogawa Eiji smiled a little awkwardly, and then shouted to the laboratory: "Mr. Nakamura, this is the company's new shareholder."

Nakamura Shuji didn't even turn his head, frowned impatiently and said, "What's the matter? I'm busy, let's talk later."

"you……"

Just as Ogawa Eiji was about to lose his temper, Takeshita Masato immediately dissuaded him, "It's okay. Researchers should have this spirit. It doesn't matter."

Masato Takeshita finally understood why the relationship between Eiji Ogawa and Shuji Nakamura was so bad.

Japan has a very strict workplace hierarchy.

In the eyes of many Japanese, Shuji Nakamura's way of speaking to the company's vice president shows that he does not take the vice president seriously.

Fortunately, Ogawa Nobuo cherishes talent and has always protected Nakamura Shuji. If it were an ordinary president, he would have kicked this troublemaker out of the company long ago.

Often, those in power care more about their own reputation than about making money. As long as they can maintain their prestige, they don’t mind if the company’s revenue drops.

This is more evident in companies dominated by managers.

For example, Toshiba Group.

So what if Fujio Masuoka invented flash memory chip technology?
Anyway, the company is not his, so even if it harms the company's interests, he must severely suppress this guy who may pose a threat to him.

It doesn’t matter whether the company suffers losses or not, but it’s important to me that you are not there.

It is better if the company is your own private property, a case in point being Nichia Chemical in the previous life.

Although Ogawa Eiji wanted to eat Nakamura Shuji, he never gave up supporting him. Even though he often spoke ill of him, he never stopped providing the necessary materials.

At most, the quality of the materials is slightly worse and the price is lower.

There was no other way. At that time, Nichia Chemical was still a small company and could not afford to support Shuji Nakamura to purchase high-quality materials.

After Nakamura Shuji succeeded in his research and development, he strongly supported his research and development work. Although the bonus was very small, he was generous in supporting the experiment.

This is his family's property. Although he disliked the guy, he still endured it for the sake of a little money. After waiting for about ten minutes, Nakamura Shuji's experiment was finally over.

Nakamura Shuji, who was dressed very simply and looked no different from an ordinary worker, said in a rather bad manner, "Tell me what's the matter. I'm busy with experiments, so I'll keep it short."

"You guy..."

"It's okay, it's okay, you'll get used to it, you'll get used to it."

After Masato Takeshita calmed down Eiji Ogawa again, he said with a smile: "The thing is, after I learned that you independently developed red LED and green LED, I felt that you were a rare scientific research talent. So I took out 50 billion yen to finance Nichia Corporation, just to support your scientific research work."

"50 billion yen?"

"Yes."

Masato Takeshita nodded kindly.

"Is that so? Then please come in."

Nakamura Shuji is just a bit stubborn and not very good at getting along with others, but he is very clear about other people's kindness.

Through a few simple conversations, he realized that this person was not the same kind of person as Eiji Ogawa, and that he very much agreed with his research and development. He immediately had a great impression of him and his attitude changed a lot.

"Thank you, I'm Masato Takeshita, you can call me Takeshita."

"Hello, Takeshita-san. I'm Nakamura Shuji, everyone calls me Nakamura. Sorry, it's a bit messy in here, so I'll have to trouble you to stand for a while."

Shuji Nakamura simply ignored Eiji Ogawa, treating him as air, and only chatted with Masato Takeshita.

"You're welcome. The main reason I acquired Nichia Chemical this time was because of you. I want to develop blue light LEDs, and you are the talent I need."

“Blue LED?”

Before Shuji Nakamura could say anything, Eiji Ogawa was the first to shout out in surprise.

Nichia Chemical is an LED company, and as the vice president, Eiji Ogawa is naturally well aware of the value of blue light LEDs.

He never expected that this was Masato Takeshita's purpose in acquiring Nichia Chemical.

He was a little bit unbelieving and wondered if he had heard it wrongly.

With such weak strength of Nichia Chemical, how could it possibly overcome the problems that top universities and top scientists have failed to solve?

Just based on this guy in front of you who has a stubborn temper, has a little scientific research ability, but only copies the results of his predecessors?

impossible!

This guy is just a graduate from a third-rate university and doesn't have the IQ at all.

For a moment, Ogawa Eiji felt that the world was so absurd, and he didn't know whether he was crazy or Takeshita Masato was crazy.

"Yes, it is blue LED. I think Nakamura-san is the genius who can develop blue LED."

Masato Takeshita had no intention of hiding it at all. Since the contract had already been signed, it would be better to make it clear earlier, which would be more conducive to the cooperation between the two parties.

"Just because you think this guy can develop blue light LEDs, you choose to spend a lot of money to invest in our company?"

"Yes, I believe in my judgment. Nakamura-san is the person I identified."

Masato Takeshita's tone was full of determination. He believed that with his help, Shuji Nakamura would be able to develop blue LEDs faster.

"Okay, you guys chat first, I'll go out for a while."

Eiji Ogawa felt a little regretful.

He originally thought that Masato Takeshita valued the management capabilities of Nichia Chemical, but he did not expect the truth of the matter to be so absurd.

(End of this chapter)