Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 536
However, for the general public, apart from curiosity, there are more practical reasons for caring about the new year name.

On the TV screen, Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi held up a cardboard with the new year's name on it, and officially announced to the public that the new year's name would be "Heisei" after he ascended the throne.

The "Pingcheng" in Heisei is selected from the "inner peace and outer success" in "Historical Records Five Emperors", and "the earth is flat and the sky is complete" in "Book of Books Dayu Mo", which means "the world can be peaceful inside and outside".

Japan's era names have always been selected from Chinese classics, and this was the case for the Showa era, as well as for the Taisho and Meiji eras that followed.

This time when the new Tianlocust ascended the throne and decided on the new year name, the officials also planned to choose from the Japanese classics, but in the end, they still selected the "Heisei" year name from the Chinese classics.

On TV, the origin of the name Heisei was explained in detail. Watching these, Iwahashi Shinichi felt a little bit of emotion like "it really is so" and "witnessing history".

Although I didn't know much about Japan in my previous life, it was a neighboring country after all, so I always knew the era name.Not only that, when it comes to Heisei, it is followed by the word "abandoned house".

Whether it is Heisei or the abandoned house, it doesn't matter for the time being.

Whether the locust is dead or not, the impact on life only lasts for 49 days, but the change of the era name has actually affected every corner of Japanese society.

From tomorrow, January [-]th, after the official change of Yuan, newspapers, magazines, TV media, computer clocks, calendars... wherever the year name can be imagined, the word "Showa" will be replaced by "Heisei".

The same goes for the record company and Shinichi Iwahashi's production company. The various things with "Showa" that were used before have to be replaced one after another.

In addition, for those who are accustomed to using year names to narrate, they must learn to change their words in the future.

"After midnight tonight, it will be the first year of Heisei."

Wanyumi Watanabe wrote down the two Chinese characters used in the year name in a notepad, and casually said to Iwahashi Shinichi: "It's better to remember and use the year of the AD."

"Of course." Yanqiao Shinichi agreed with a smile.

After watching the live broadcast of the announcement of the year, the curiosity of the people present was satisfied, so it seemed as if the pause button pressed was changed to the start button again, and each of them went to their own things, losing interest in the news on TV again .

In fact, Shinichi Iwahashi and Mayumi Watanabe didn't stay here to watch TV on purpose. After being bombarded by phone calls in the morning, the two sat together in the afternoon, exchanged the information they received, and then discussed what to do next. item adjustments.

This afternoon, ZARD was taken by the staff to Kansai TV Station to record a music program.Recorded this afternoon, broadcast next week.Live programs have no choice but to stop, but the progress of recording and broadcasting programs is not affected.

After recording the show in the afternoon and having a live house performance in the evening, the band's last day in Osaka was still full of schedule.

On the last day of the performance, Yanqiao Shinichi had to be busy with business, so he didn't have time and didn't plan to follow it.

However, after watching it for two days in a row, he already had a rough idea of ​​the band's performance and the adjustments to Sachiko Kawachi's stage style. It was just that during the performance, suddenly communicating with Sachiko Kamachi might affect her performance.

When I get back to Tokyo, I will talk to her alone.

The two were talking when Shinichi Iwahashi's pager rang.

Today, the pager hadn't stopped since early in the morning, and Shinichi Iwahashi got used to it, so he talked to Mayumi Watanabe and got up to find the phone.

The call was made by Director Numata of Tokyo Music Industry Co., Ltd., who has been cooperating with the production company.I called specifically to discuss a new order with Shinichi Iwahashi.

Once the era name was changed, the Tokyo Music Industry Association also wanted to take advantage of the enthusiasm for the replacement of the old and new era names, and hurriedly selected representative idol songs, preparing to play "Showa Idol Special Collection", "Showa Atmosphere Song Special Collection" and the like. Banner sale.

It is a good thing to have an order, and mosquito legs are also meat. Of course, Yanqiao Shinichi fully agreed.I made an agreement with him again, and I will go to Tokyo Music Industry Association to visit in person afterwards.

After a few words on the business, Numata started chatting with him again.

When Numata knew Iwahashi Shinichi, Iwahashi Shinichi was Mori Shinichi's little follower.At the beginning of the establishment of the production company, the source of livelihood was the order received from Numata.With this kind of relationship, the two can be regarded as somewhat friendly.

The change of the era name, although everything in life is almost as usual except for the replacement of "Showa" with "Heisei", but the change of the era name is undoubtedly a big event.

If you don't care about national affairs, you will naturally be completely indifferent.But there is also a kind of people who, although they have no extra thoughts about "change", just can't wait to take this new and important event as a topic of conversation and talk about it with everyone.

That kind of mentality is roughly similar to wanting to point out the country after drinking three cups-with a happy mouth.

Numata is obviously the latter kind of person.

Yanqiao Shinichi dealt with him politely, while talking, the pager still in his hand rang again.He glanced at it and saw that it was an unfamiliar number, but the paging code was not the most familiar "quick call back".

While continuing to chat with Numata, he consulted the paging code list next to the phone.After searching for a while, I finally found the answer, which was a bit awkward "see you next time".

See you next time?
Yanqiao Shen thought about it for a while, and suddenly he had a flash of inspiration. He talked to Numata and a call came in.

On the phone, Numata teased him that he must be very busy today, and finally let him go.After hanging up Numata's phone, Iwahashi Shinichi called back the awkward paging call just now.

The call was made, and after the call was connected, a low-pitched female voice told him, "This is a public phone."

Payphone?

Was it picked up by someone passing by?There's no one waiting at a phone booth after they've paged.

Are you too careless?

Iwahashi Shinichi was quite surprised by this answer.While accusing the caller of being unreliable, he murmured in his heart, could the guess just now be wrong?

I was about to apologize to the other party and hang up, but I didn't say anything. I don't know why, but I felt something was wrong.While hesitating, he suddenly heard laughter from the other end of the phone.

At first it seemed to be enduring, and then he simply laughed generously.

"Shinichi-kun." On the phone, Nakamori Akina finally announced her family name.

Facing such a mischievous Tao Pustar, Iwahashi Shinichi could only laugh.

But having said that, Nakamori Akina's voice-changing ability is quite powerful. Could it be that in the natural skill point, the column belonging to the voice actor has also been clicked a few more times?

Yanqiao Shinichi thought to himself, before he could speak, he heard Akina Nakamori ask him, "Shenichi-kun must be very busy today, right?"

"Well, I haven't stopped since I woke up, and I was answering the phone just now." Yanqiao Shen said to her, "Just now I received a page saying 'see you next time', and guessed in my heart, it might be you."

Akina Nakamori smiled, "Omoto-san left while talking on the phone in the morning. I think Shinichi-kun must be busier than Omoto-san."

"Probably so." Yanqiao Shinichi also thought so, and asked her again, "Where's Akina-san?"

"Contrary to Shinichi-kun who was too busy, I got a sudden day off today." Akina Nakamori told him.

Yanqiao Shenyi joked, "I'm really envious."

"If I can share half with you, I will give you half." Staying in the small space of the phone booth, Akina Nakamori spoke nonsense without restraint.

... A person with a sweetheart must have the qualifications to say stupid things.

She looked at her face in the small mirror mounted on the phone.

"If I can receive it, I will really ask you for half of it." Yanqiao Shinichi imitated her sentence patterns.

On the phone, Nakamori Akina laughed at his words.

Yanqiao Shinichi said to her, "However, I was really teased by you just now." In order to play a prank, he also showed off his voice actor skills, which is quite naughty.

Akina Nakamori laughed twice, "Pretend that people passing by are playing tricks on you....But, this is really a public phone."

And the reason why she wanted to pretend to be a passing person was that when she dialed out the phone and waited in the phone booth, she suddenly thought that she couldn't be sure if the next call was for her.

Between the two possibilities of receiving a call from Shinichi Iwahashi and perhaps receiving a call from someone else, Akina Nakamori had the idea of ​​playing a prank again, and decided to tell the other party that it was a public phone as soon as the phone rang.

If it was a stranger's voice, that would be an appropriate answer.

If it was Iwahashi Shinichi's voice, it was deliberately playing a joke on him.

"Really?"

Iwahashi Shinichi imagined Mori Akina standing in a telephone booth on the corner of the street and making a call.On the street where people come and go, will someone find that she is the person holding the receiver and calling inside?
"When I saw a telephone booth on the street, I suddenly wanted to use it to call you," Nakamori Akina said.

Her tone was frank, and she said something childish.As soon as Yanqiao Shen heard what she said, he imagined Akina Nakamori standing in the phone booth, and suddenly felt a certain kind of warmth, and felt the warmth of her person.

"Now, after the phone call, I'm going back." She deliberately didn't say "Shen Yi-kun is so busy but still calls you".

"Where are you going?" Yanqiao Shinichi was moved by her.

Akina Nakamori told him, "Go home and do some cleaning while on vacation."

Putting down the phone, Akina Nakamori was satisfied.She stared at the small mirror inlaid on the phone, her face reflected in the mirror, for a moment, seemed to overlap with the girl she saw on the phone just now.

She put in another coin, called the taxi company, and gave the address.

After putting down the phone, Nakamori Akina walked out of the phone booth and waited for a taxi to pick her up.

……

The official change of the Yuan was at midnight on the [-]th. However, the evening paper of that day had already published the year name of "Heisei" and advertised it to the world.

And by the early morning of the [-]th, in the newspaper delivered to the hotel, the time column had all been replaced with "Heisei First Year".

Turn on the TV, and there is also a lot of reports on the theme of "Heisei First Year" on the TV.

With the replacement of the new era, whether it is TV programs or newspapers, they all look forward to a new era with optimism.

Of course, what they are looking forward to is a new era that can continue the current prosperity and be better than the present.

As a manifestation of this, when Shinichi Iwahashi went to have breakfast, he listened to the report of the accompanying staff, saying that yesterday's radio station, DREAMS COME TRUE's "Future Vision II" had a surge in demand.

"According to the feedback information, quite a few of the comments for this song mentioned the phrase 'No matter how many years, I can keep the same mood now'." The staff made a detailed report.

Listening to the staff's report, Wanyumi Watanabe remembered what her mother had mentioned about the reason why the song "Future Vision II" was so popular.

"It won't change no matter how many years."

The core of this song, now that the times are changing, also has the meaning of comforting people's hearts and cheering people up.

Before this, among the listeners who ordered this song, few people had such an association with this song.However, at the same time as the year name was changed, on-demand messages with such associations increased significantly, which more or less reflected the truth in the hearts of the public.

Being able to think of this song in such a short period of time, on the one hand, proves that "Future Vision II" is indeed hot and well-known, and on the other hand, it also proves Misa Watanabe's precise perspective on things.

On the one hand, it is indifferent to the death of the locust, the ascension of the new locust, and the change of symbols.

On the other side, there is an uneasiness about the current bubble era that floats deep in my heart, maybe I can't even be aware of it.

To alleviate anxiety, on the one hand, it is more fanatical, and on the other hand, it is to associate with subtle and seemingly unrelated things.

Watanabe Wanyumi thought of this, and told Iwahashi Shinichi what his mother said.

Yanqiao Shenyi listened carefully, and while listening, he admired Misa Watanabe in his heart, "You really deserve to be President Watanabe."

Ginger is still old and hot. Misa Watanabe may have lost her innovative and enterprising judgment in terms of seeing things, but these subtle things hidden in the times cannot be hidden from the eyes of this veteran in the entertainment industry.

The eighth day is not only the first day of the "First Year of Heisei", but also the first day of the first seven days of the locust.

Both TV and newspapers made detailed reports on yesterday's people rushing out of their homes at the last minute, and how entertainment venues responded to this situation.

Today, the national funeral has officially begun, and entertainment venues have put up signs to thank guests behind closed doors.At that time, entertainment venues such as movie theaters, karaoke, disco, and amusement parks will all be closed.

News related to national mourning must be scrolled on television, and newspapers must assume their responsibilities.

The newspaper on the [-]th reported on the stock of the Okinawa Electric Power Company that will be sold tomorrow.As soon as Yanqiao Shin turned to this side, thinking of Nakamura, he persuaded him and Meihechan to buy it.

I also don't know about the stake in LIVEHOUSE, how will Nakamura choose.

But before that, in the morning, the staff returned to Tokyo from Osaka. Shinichi Iwahashi, Wanyumi Watanabe, and the four members of ZARD headed to Kyoto at the invitation of Haruko Akamatsu.

(End of this chapter)