godfather of tokyo entertainment

Kei Fujiwara stood in front of the zebra crossing and pressed the pass button of the traffic light.

The moment the traffic light turned green, a biting cold wind blew in and passed through the five-way intersection near Sugamo Station from west to east. Pedestrians on the road wrapped their coats tightly in unison and made a "hissing" sound from their mouths.

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The cold air of early spring swept across Tokyo. Kei Fujiwara complained secretly and walked home with his neck hunched.

Today he was covered in ice cream by a little girl on the road, but he no longer had a second coat to wear. If it was still cold like this tomorrow, he would have to wear this dirty clothes to work.

Kei Fujiwara returned to an apartment located in the center of the line connecting Sugamo Station and Otsuka Station. The name of the apartment is Rising Sun, but in fact the apartment faces north and the sun is basically invisible.

After walking into the apartment building, in the administrator's room on the first floor, a woman with permed instant noodles was reading a gossip magazine boredly. When she saw Kei Fujiwara, her eyes lit up and she put the magazine on the table.

Dunk, pretending to get up, said: "Xiaogui, are you getting off work so early today?"

"Well, hello, Mrs. Yoshihara."

The instant noodle-headed woman's eyes were a bit angry: "I've told you so many times, just call me Yuriko, alas..."

Kei Fujiwara smiled at her, but secretly quickened his pace and rushed into the hall waiting for the elevator. Fortunately, the elevator door was about to open, and Kei Fujiwara hurriedly got in like a loach.

The apartment manager of the building is an old man over sixty years old, and the instant noodle-haired woman is his young wife, who seems to be very interested in Kei Fujiwara.

The apartment has ten floors in total, with five units on each floor. They are all one-bedroom single apartments. The environmental conditions are quite good, the neighbors are very harmonious, and the rent is within a reasonable range. If it is not a last resort, Fujiwara Kei does not want to leave here.

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Kei Fujiwara has recently been in contact with real estate agents and is always ready to move out.

The reason for considering moving is not because Mrs. Yoshihara always wanted to perform a daily drama with him, but because he is about to graduate.

Kei Fujiwara is not from Tokyo. He is from Chiba Prefecture. To the arrogant Tokyoites, he is a rural Ning.

It is very troublesome for outsiders to rent an apartment in Tokyo. They must have a guarantor, a good social credit record, and an employment contract from a formal enterprise, etc.

Fujiwara Kei relied on his status as a student to rent this house with a suitable price and location. In Japan, the status of a college student itself is a useful proof of credit.

But what is troubling is that Kei Fujiwara will lose this credit certificate in a few months.

Kei Fujiwara is 22 years old and studying at Tokyo University of Literature and Art. He is a senior and is about to graduate, but he has not yet found a concrete job.

Once he leaves school and no big company is willing to accept him, the check-out letter for this apartment will soon be sent to him.

However, finding a job is now a difficult task for him. To be precise, it is a difficult task for all graduates this year.

Who knows, it is now 1994, the third year of the Great Depression.

From the 1980s to the early 1990s, Japan's economy experienced a short-term boom. The Japanese used commercial means to make up for their military failures, and were in full swing towards becoming a world-class country.

At that time, Japan had unprecedented national self-confidence and vowed to dislodge the United States from its position as the world leader. It was then that the saying "Tokyo can buy half of the United States" began.

Due to the rapid expansion of the market, the supply of high-end university graduates exceeds demand, so graduates in the 1980s are like hot cakes.

Not to mention schools like Tokyo University and Yingkei, even Togei, where Fujiwara Kei currently works, was a target of competition among companies at that time. It was not like it is now, where it was regarded as useless by companies.

In order to compete for talents, many companies have offered extremely generous employment conditions. In order to win over newcomers, they have even used all kinds of methods, such as giving away money, promising RVs, and stuffing sluts into houses.

There is no need to go to the Graduation Guidance Center to check company information as we do now. At that time, corporate personnel came directly to our doorsteps and treated them to French food and Turkish baths. Kei Fujiwara could not imagine how happy the graduates were at that time.

It is estimated that each of them is so confident that they shout "Japan's No. 1" and imagine that they are the masters of the world.

At that time, Japan did not treat money as money, and everyone spread money, which also laid a huge psychological risk later on. That is, this wonderful experience made the Japanese people feel that this is what life should be like.

They did not realize at all that Japan's economic take-off was not a business victory, but a diplomatic victory. As a defeated country, it could still develop like this. This in itself is very abnormal and an accident in history.

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However, this dreamlike life did not last long. After the Plaza Accord,

Japan's economy declined rapidly and fell into the Great Depression. That dreamlike memory burst like a huge bubble on the beach.

People have to wake up from wonderful dreams and begin to face the cruel reality of life. One of the realities is that Japanese companies have gone from labor shortages to redundant personnel, and have begun rounds of layoffs.

Old employees have lost their jobs, and new graduates are unable to find jobs. There are a large number of unemployed people in the society. The small steel ball shops on the street are filled with people who cannot accept the reality because they woke up from their dreams. The crime rate in society has increased significantly.

Upward trend.

In a few months, Kei Fujiwara will become a member of the unemployed.

Kei Fujiwara was lying on the bed, watching the black crows flying outside the window - there are so many crows in Tokyo, it's almost hard to figure out who is the master of this city.

He has been here for more than ten days, but he still feels that he has not fully integrated into this city.

Although his body carries the Japanese language system and the memory of living in Tokyo, Kei Fujiwara silently misses the place where he came from.

The summer of 2022 is extremely hot. Keiichi Fujiwara should not have stayed up late the night before and went out on location in the scorching sun without taking any heatstroke prevention measures. As a result, he got heat stroke and woke up.

Arriving in Tokyo in 1994.

Kei Fujiwara's body is that of a native Japanese, but due to psychological reasons, he was acclimatized for a long time after traveling here, and it has only recently gotten better.

Kei Fujiwara studied in the Imaging and Video Department of Toei and was about to graduate. So he wanted to get a job in a TV station based on his major and previous experience. However, both the state-owned NHK and the five major private broadcasters rejected him.

It’s no wonder that the number of graduates this year is already too large compared to the number of jobs available, making it extremely difficult to find a job. Most companies are considering layoffs, let alone hiring new people.

The television industry was one of the few industries that was not greatly affected by the Great Recession, but it did not create many new jobs.

Kei Fujiwara had long heard that at large TV stations like the Five Broadcasting Stations, many positions had been filled by people recommended by employees, and it was difficult to get opportunities at public job fairs.

Now Kei Fujiwara has no choice but to work as a manager at a bookstore near the school, and occasionally work odd jobs in convenience stores. However, this kind of life of relying on odd jobs to sustain expenses cannot be provided for people to live in a large city like Tokyo.

of sense of security.

Kei Fujiwara picked up the remote control, turned on the TV, and tuned to an idol drama that he liked recently. Then, he turned around, sat at his desk, and started his part-time job at night.

Turn it on just for listening but not for watching. The plot is quite cliche, but the soundtrack is quite nice. The heroine is a voice actress and her voice is very beautiful. So when Kei Fujiwara is writing, he often turns on this TV to act as white noise to stimulate his writing.

mood.

This world should be regarded as a parallel world. Although the general historical trend has not changed, the details have changed a lot.

Take entertainment works as an example. None of the songs I heard or the movies and TV shows I watched in my previous life are available in this world, and Kei Fujiwara has never seen any TV series in this world in his previous life.

Kei Fujiwara picked up a sharpened pencil and started writing neatly on the grid paper.

There is a stack of manuscript paper on the table now, and the writing work is about halfway done.

The written manuscript was covered with a piece of white paper as the cover. There were only three large characters on the cover.

"White Night Walk".