Flying over the bubble era

Chapter 986
In October, the chairman of Sumitomo Bank, Ichiro Isoda, known as "Sumitomo Sky Locust", announced his resignation due to the Ito Wan incident.

Five months ago, because of a whistleblower letter from within Sumitomo Bank, this "biggest economic event after the war" was made public.

Itoman Co., Ltd., a century-old family business, has successively obtained loans totaling 2000 trillion and [-] billion yen from Sumitomo Bank in various ways. Xu Yongzhong, an extreme member of the Kansai Dark Gold King, laundered money, and most of them disappeared in the end.

When the news broke, the world was in an uproar.After five months of long investigation and follow-up, the persons involved in the case were investigated one after another. Two days after the branch manager of Sumitomo Bank was arrested by the police for violating the capital contribution law, Chairman Ichiro Isoda announced his resignation.

Ichiro Isoda ruled Sumitomo Bank for 13 years, and was called "Isoda Sky Locust" in the bank. In 1986, Ichiro Isoda, who was ambitious to expand his business from Kansai to Kanto, merged Heiwa Mutual Bank, which was said to have "massive non-performing assets", and made great achievements in the bubble era.

Generally speaking, it is a taboo for banks to participate in extreme events, but this era is not a "normal situation" after all.Sumitomo Bank and Yakudo began to communicate with each other during the merger of Heiwa Mutual Bank.The reason for this is that Xu Yongzhong has another nickname "Fixer of Kansai".

After five months of turmoil, the branch manager of Sumitomo Bank was arrested and Ichiro Isoda resigned.The devastation of those affected is not understood by unrelated people who stand aside and view the incident as financial gossip.

For most ordinary people, it is impossible to know what impact a major event will have on themselves outside the event.However, the future of most ordinary people is quietly decided in the midst of ignorance and isolation.

In October, Sumitomo Bank's Isoda stepped down.

In November, the Heisei Tianlocust held an enthronement ceremony, and the TV station broadcast the entire enthronement ceremony.For the TV station and the locust room, broadcasting the enthronement ceremony is the first time for a big girl to get on the sedan chair. Therefore, all kinds of things must be arranged in advance.So, at the end of the year, there was another disturbance surrounding the enthronement ceremony of the locust.

The key news report item of the enthronement ceremony is the enthronement ceremony of the main hall. The specific TV station will broadcast this segment. The initial plan is to draw lots between NHK, the four major public broadcasting stations, and TV Tokyo.

As a result, the lottery was drawn by TV TOKYO.

However, the Imperial Household Agency denied this result, and directly designated NHK to exclusively broadcast the main hall ceremony, and the congratulatory procession ceremony was jointly broadcast by NHK and various private broadcasting stations.

This decision was opposed by all Minfang TV stations. For this reason, TV Asahi urgently produced a special program "NHK, the Queen's Television Station of the Imperial Household Agency", explaining the ins and outs of this matter to the audience in detail, criticizing the Imperial Household Agency and NHK for putting on airs.

He said that it would be lucky to draw lots, and if he failed to win, he would come to the queen's appointment.

Ten days after the enthronement ceremony of the Heisei Heavenly Locust, the Imperial Household Hall held sacrificial activities. Asahi TV took this opportunity to launch a special program again. Taking the Imperial Household Hall's enthronement ceremony and a series of activities as an example, the The locust system talks a lot.

The TV station is more serious, but it is relentless.In particular, TV Asahi is also good at news programs, and this kind of programs can be done easily.As for whether the Imperial Household Agency will protest through the private broadcasting alliance in the future, the broadcast has already been broadcast anyway.

In Japan, a qualified person in charge must be proficient in bowing, honorific apology, and feigning death.

Not only that, because the TV station is backed by newspaper groups and publishing houses, the TV station is under intense fire, and the comments surrounding this broadcast event in the newspapers and magazines related to it also surged suddenly.

For the general public, seeing "the biggest economic event after the war" will cause confusion. Even if they think they are outside the event, they can't help but feel a little bit of anxiety—even if they can't explain the anxiety. reason.

However, if it is a series of turmoil surrounding the enthronement ceremony of the locust, then for the vast majority of people, they can feel relieved and enjoy watching this gossip to their heart's content.Those who like to watch the excitement can still think about it without any burden——

"Tear it well, tear it louder."

On the Shinkansen heading west, Iwahashi Shinichi flipped through the magazine in his hand, and read an article criticizing the relationship between the Imperial Household Agency and NHK, which hindered the media's freedom of interview, and read it with gusto.

At this moment, the time has just entered the end of the year.

It will be about a month since the broadcast of the enthronement ceremony of Tianlocust, but this is this month's magazine.Similarly, because it is a monthly magazine, when it was published, the magazine got new material. After criticizing it, the article mentioned that TV Asahi was protested by extremists for broadcasting those two special programs. .

Of course, the protest is a protest. If Asahi paid attention to it, he would not focus on this matter.

In the era of developed media, there will never be no new topics to worry about.And in this era we are in now, new news is being created all the time.All kinds of unprecedented and unimaginable things emerged one after another, making people dizzy.

A comprehensive magazine that not only continues to track the follow-up of the Ito Wan incident, but also summarizes the broadcast of the enthronement ceremony of the locust.Going forward, I look overseas, analyzing what changes the reunification of Germany will bring to the world, and what will happen to the corrupt country after Iron Lady leaves office.Then there is whether war in the Gulf is inevitable.

Japan is restricted by the United States and is not allowed to send reporters to the front line of the war, and can only broadcast foreign reports.Therefore, for people in Japan, the situation in the Gulf region is very far away from them.

Just as when reading Sumitomo Bank’s financial gossip, you feel outside of it, for most people, reading the changes in the world situation is just a feeling of watching a movie or watching someone else play a video game.

Entering December, it is the busiest ending month.

GENZO is booming this year. In the closing month of the year-end, the company is full of energy and the reception is extravagant.

The sales statistics of the annual record charts are over, and on the singles chart, the one that won this year's annual chart is BBQQUEENS's "Let's Dance Together".

Thanks to the strong ratings of "Chibi Maruko-chan" and Fuji TV's spare no effort to promote it, this single has never stopped being a publicity topic since its release, and it has sold a total of 150 million copies, attracting the attention of the entire industry.

Last year's annual list, DREAMS COME TRUE's "Eyes to me" became the first million-dollar single in Heisei, and this year, "Let's Dance Together" as the singles annual list champion, refreshed "Eyes to me" "Set a sales record.

At the same time, the projected album led by Shinichi Iwahashi ranked first in the annual album list.This album, which sold 58 copies in the first week of the year, crossed the threshold of 200 million copies in one fell swoop after selling for a full year from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.

Album sold over 200 million copies!
Having just come from the difficult era of millions of albums, an album with a sales volume of over 200 million is enough to shock the industry and the general public.

However, considering that this is a super-large project that has attracted the attention of the whole of Japan, the sales of the songs included in the album, after they are released as singles, will accumulate to more than 200 million copies, and it seems that they will sell 200 million copies. No exaggeration.

But the most important thing is that this planned album conveys a signal to the industry and the public, that is: the album can sell more than 200 million copies.For the record market, which has been in the doldrums for many years, having one million singles and two million albums on the annual record list will undoubtedly boost the confidence of the industry and attract the attention of the public.

Let the public look at "buying records" again.

Last year, DREAMS COME TRUE had both a million singles and a million albums on the record chart, but at that time, this achievement could be attributed to the super strong momentum of the band throughout last year.

But this year, regardless of the list of singles or albums, the sales of records that can enter the top [-] of the overall list have seen an overall increase.In this way, there is no doubt that it is because the record market is recovering and has the momentum of returning to prosperity.

Although from another point of view, the last wave of record market booming happened to be the era of zero economic growth after the oil crisis.However, for practitioners in the recording industry, this is still a long-lost spring.

The single's annual chart champion sold 150 million copies, but this is the only one with a million singles in the entire year.DREAMS COME TRUE, which had a strong performance last year, has released only one single and sold 70 copies by the end of this year's singles list, ranking No.3 on the annual list.

On the contrary, the album annual list is very lively. The champion has sold 200 million copies, the runner-up DREAMS COME TRUE has sold 120 million copies, and the third place is Akina Nakamori’s new album. No more than 100 million copies were sold.

Akina Nakamori's new album sold 70 copies within a month of its release.After that, Yanyin and Warner did not relax their publicity, and at the same time announced the news that she was going to star in a TV series. After that, "Weekly Modern" made a summary of the previous events——

Yanyin and Genzo worked together on the manuscript of "Weekly Modern". Before it was officially published, the editorial department also sent the manuscript to the company for their review.

Of course, this kind of thing is not uncommon, and it is not only Yanyin and GENZO who do this.Otherwise, there would not be the previous report that Wen Chun vividly described.And thanks to that special article, this issue of "Weekly Modern", which drew a satisfactory end to the public's gossip and curiosity, surpassed the current issue of "Weekly Wenchun" in one fell swoop.

For the media, mastering big news and exclusive news is the only way to increase sales.

"Weekly Modern" became a hit after it was released, and Shinichi Iwahashi's already reversed reputation turned to the good side again, and he once again advertised for his new album with Nakamori Akina.Coupled with Akina Nakamori's serious publicity and hard work, she managed to break through 100 million copies in just two months.

If you give the album some time to sell, the number will obviously be even more beautiful.Even so, Nakamori, the unlucky Nakamori who had missed the top of the annual singles chart for three consecutive years in his peak period, finally failed to sell a ecstasy number like 99 copies this time.

Finally, before entering the tenth year of his debut, he got his own million-dollar album.

Or it should be said that he is not a little unlucky guy after all.

According to statistics on the annual record list, in the top ten singles list, GENZO occupies three seats, namely THE BLUE HEARTS, ZARD, and BOLAN, each of the company's three signature bands occupies one.

Looking at the top [-], the GENZO headquarters won six places. Generally speaking, it is still an outstanding result but not too much.However, if the scope is changed to "singer produced by Shinichi Iwahashi", DREAMS COME TRUE is not counted, and there are a total of thirteen places in the top fifty.

But when it comes to the album list, among the top three in the annual list, there are only two in the name of Iwahashi Shinichi as the producer, and there are two with his name on them.Not only that, one of the two albums sold over one million, and the other sold over two million.

Even "Let's Dance Together", although the production was entrusted to BEING, the publisher is GENZO.In the eyes of the public, behind this single is also the producer Shinichi Iwahashi.

For GENZO, this year is a year to gain a firm foothold in the industry.For Shinichi Iwahashi, this year has been a year of fame.For the general public, after reading this year's list, they will understand that rock bridge producers are indispensable to them.

But for the industry, this year belongs to Shinichi Iwahashi.

Comprehensive magazines cover everything from economic news to locust room gossip to world situations.Similarly, a page for the entertainment industry is also set aside.

In fact, the cover of this issue of the magazine is Johnny's idol group Junior Team.

The cover characters of comprehensive magazines are male and female idols from all walks of life. This has always been a strange thing for Iwahashi Shinichi.However, if you want to ask him what he should be if he is not an idol of men and women from all walks of life, he really can't tell.

When he saw the entertainment section, Yanqiao Shenyi couldn't help laughing.

It was Kenon, Watanabe Productions, and GENZO who jointly established a TV production company. Akina Nakamori won the first million-dollar album of his career, and will soon be the leading actor in the first work of the new TV production company.

It was the end of the sales statistics of the annual record list again. On the list, the producer Yanqiao showed his dominance.The writer was afraid that it wasn't hot enough, so he wrote in the article, "This year can be called the 'Year of the Rock Bridge'."

Year of the Rock Bridge is okay.

A feeling of watching the excitement and seeing his own head rose in Yanqiao Shenyi's heart.But then, a sense of accomplishment replaced this feeling of staying out of the crowd and occupied his heart.

After reading the magazine's summary of his achievements this year, Yanqiao Shinichi became more aware of what he had done.

"We're almost in Osaka, Iwahashi-san."

At this time, I heard the voice of the assistant reminding me.Yanqiao Shenyi regained his senses, closed the magazine in his hand, and listened to him report to himself in a low voice about the upcoming itinerary.

(End of this chapter)