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Chapter 1417: Glory to the Ancestors (Third update, please subscribe)
This is Tokyo!

Finally, after walking out of Ueno Train Station, what kind of weird look caught Taro Kawada's eyes?

Apart from some buildings along the street, there were rows of low houses built with iron sheets and paper everywhere behind. More than ten years after the end of the war, Tokyo still looked like a horrible place.

There are many homeless children begging at the train station. When they see the passengers coming out, they rush up and beg loudly, but they are often scolded by people and only a very few of them get some change.

A homeless boy of seven or eight years old was standing on the roadside, smoking a cigarette. He glanced at Kawada who was carrying his luggage, then looked away.

In Langlang'er's eyes, this is just a poor guy from the country who has no money at all.

Kawada was indeed a poor man. He was carrying a suitcase left by his father. Although his school uniform had no patches, it was washed so much that it looked a little pale. The leather shoes on his feet were not only old and dull, but also had obvious wrinkles.

He was indeed very poor, but Kawada came here with hope. After all, he had graduated from college.

He came to Tokyo to pursue his dream.

Of course, his dream was not in Tokyo. Tokyo, like other places in Japan, was a ghost town.

Everyone here is poor and hopeless. Even the children have left their homes because of hunger. They wander the streets, living a life of hunger and starvation.

This is the life of ordinary Japanese people, everyone is struggling to survive.

There is no hope.

Actually, that’s not the case. At least there is hope in one place.

After asking questions along the way, Kawada finally arrived at his destination - the Representative Office in Tokyo. As usual, there was a long queue outside the representative office.

"It's really just like what the newspaper said!"

There are always long queues of Japanese people who hope to get work visas and go overseas. Most of them are in their twenties, with only a few in their thirties and forties - the outstanding talents of this age have already gone overseas. Of course, there are still many stubborn guys who stay in Japan, but except for university professors, most people are unemployed or semi-unemployed. Finally, forced by the reality of life, they still come here to try to get a visa.

"Okay, this is it..."

Carrying a suitcase, Kawada looked at the long queue in front of him and waited from morning to afternoon. During this period, he didn't even dare to leave to drink a sip of water or eat a bite of food, not because he had no money, but because he was afraid that his seat would be taken away by others.

Finally, after a long wait and numerous checks, Kawata entered the representative office. After filling out the form, he waited in line for a while before he met the interviewer.

Getting a visa is both difficult and easy.

It is relatively easier if you have received higher education. For foreigners, these are valuable and will create wealth for society. Of course, the more such people there are, the better. Basically, you can pass it in one try. There are also some rich people.

Although the entire Japanese society is poor, there are also wealthy people, and many of them own properties overseas.

However, most of the people here are ordinary people like Kawada, who hope to change their destiny and work overseas with a graduation certificate.

Finally, it was Kawada's turn. Looking at the visa officer in front of him, Kawada seemed a little nervous. In front of him was a man in his thirties who looked at him and asked:
“Why do you want to go overseas?”

"Work, work. Although I am a chemistry major, I can't find a job in Japan."

A monk, that is, a master's degree, but so what? This is Japan, and there are so many jobs for him!
Kawata explained:
“The only way I could get a job was overseas.”

“Why not wait for the campus recruitment in a month?” The interview officer is talking about campus recruitment.

This means that overseas companies will hold campus recruitment at several well-known universities in Japan during the graduation season.

"Nagoya University is a prestigious school. If nothing goes wrong, I will definitely get a job opportunity."

Faced with such a question, Kawada hesitated for a moment, then said somewhat embarrassedly:
"I, I... I have no money left and can't wait for the campus recruitment."

The interviewer looked at Kawada, at the school uniform with a torn collar, and did not ask him how he could go abroad without money.

Because he only needs a visa, he can go to some institutions to apply for loans. There are many such institutions in Japan. They specialize in providing loans to migrant workers. Workers who have nothing rely on loans to work overseas and then repay them in installments. Many gangs make huge profits from such loans.

The government turns a blind eye to this kind of gangs because their existence can ensure one thing - the workers will not be detained overseas.

However, the financial companies' favorite business is still to provide loans to these high-level talents because the interest rate is higher and the turnover period is shorter.

"Um……"

After thinking about it, the interview officer directly stamped the passport.

"I think you'd find a good job there, Mr. Kawada."

Taro Kawata is destined to remember this day, a day he will never forget.

Although his stomach was still growling with hunger, he now had one foot overseas. As long as he could get a long-term job there and change his short-term work visa to a long-term one, he could become a citizen after working for a few years.

From today on, his destiny will change dramatically.

When he walked out of the representative office, Kawada Taro found that the sky was so blue, the air was so fresh, and the world was so beautiful. At that moment, he felt that his whole mentality had changed. In the past, his life was poor and hopeless. His only hope was to go abroad one day. Only when he went there could he realize the value of life and change his destiny.

Now, the god of destiny finally favors him!
Just then, a guy came up to him and said:

"Sir, I'm Matsumoto from Chengbang Credit. May I ask if you can help me?"

This is the change. Not only one guy, but soon two more guys came over and offered favorable loan terms.

Half an hour later, Taro Kawata followed Matsumoto to Seibon Credit. The reason he chose this place was not because Matsumoto was the first one to approach him, but because Matsumoto told him that the loan they provided was "red banknotes", which is the "more children, more blessings banknotes" overseas.

Soon, he signed and obtained a loan of 1000 yuan.

With just a visa, you can get a loan of hundreds of thousands of yen, which was unthinkable in the past.

But looking at the red banknotes and the children playing on them, Taro Kawada knew that this was a change in identity.

Even the gang members in front of him looked at him with envy, because he could go overseas, and when he returned to Japan a few years later, he would be an expatriate!
"It's just a little interest, no big deal, I can pay off the loan in just a few months."

After leaving the credit company, when Taro Kawata passed by the department store, he couldn't help but take another look at the floor-to-ceiling glass. He saw that the young man reflected in the glass was still thin and his clothes were still shabby, but his posture had become much taller for some reason.

Is this… what it feels like to be an expatriate?
Yes, that’s how it feels!

At this moment, Taro Kawata suddenly felt some kind of primitive power rising from his heart, and he felt an unprecedented power.

This power seemed to be injected from the top of his head suddenly, which changed his whole person and made him more confident.

On the way, Kawata's perspective on everything changed.

"Oh my, this street is so dirty, there is so much garbage, I wonder what Japan is like!"

"Really, no wonder we are so backward!"

"Oh, homeless kids are begging on the street. Why don't the police come to take care of them? Shouldn't they be in school?"

Now Kawada is looking at everything with the eyes of a bystander or a foreigner. In his opinion, everything in Japan is backward and unsightly. Even the street garbage that he is used to seeing is an eyesore in Kawada's eyes.

When passing by a public toilet on the roadside, he even covered his nose with some disgust. In fact, just a few hours ago, he had used the toilet in that public toilet that was full of flies.

But now?
Everything was different now, he was no longer Japanese.

In other words, he is no longer an ordinary Japanese, but a noble "expatriate". This is of course just the beginning. Once he arrives overseas, he will soon get a well-paid job and then obtain residency.

Eventually he would settle there like many others and become a noble local, and by then he would be completely different from these Japanese living in the garbage dump.

This is the change of destiny!
With excitement in his heart, Kawada walked briskly to the post office, and then called his hometown from the post office.

After a brief chat with the village chief, Kawada learned that his mother was not at home, so he said to the village chief:

"Please tell mother I have done it. I have been granted a work visa to go overseas."

After hearing his words, the village chief on the other end of the phone immediately spoke excitedly.

"Oh, Kawada, I knew you could do it. I knew since you were little that you would be the pride of our village and the hope of all of us.

Oh, you must work hard when you go abroad! But you must remember not to bring your Japanese habits with you, okay? I heard that it is a completely different place than Japan."

Listening to the village chief's instructions, Kawada kept nodding his head in agreement. He certainly knew that overseas was different from Japan, where rules and integrity were emphasized.

Soon, Huizi, who was working in the fields, learned the good news about her son from the village chief. She immediately ran to the village office in her wooden clogs.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the phone rang again. When Huizi picked up the phone, she heard her son's voice.

"Mother, I did it, I did it!"

"Mom knows, Mom knows you will succeed..."

Huizi's eyes were also red. She knew that her son's fate had changed drastically, not only for her son, but also for her.

When she hung up the phone, she could feel the change in the looks of people around her; they were all filled with envy.

"Oh, Mrs. Kawata, Taro is really amazing!"

For a moment, there were compliments all around. At this moment, Huizi, the rural peasant woman was no longer a peasant woman, but the mother of an overseas Chinese. Although she could never settle overseas in the name of family reunion, and even with a family visit visa, she could only stay for three months each year, so what?

Now her son is no longer Japanese!
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(End of this chapter)