Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

On January 4, 1980, just after the New Year holiday, Tokyo once again returned to its former prosperity.

Just like later generations, returning workers are returning to Tokyo one after another.

The holidays of major companies basically come to an end on the 3rd or 4th.

Today is the first day of Sony's new year's start. Kozo Osone stepped into the Sony headquarters building with a happy face.

The whole family was in Hawaii this New Years and had an unforgettable trip to the beach.

If you want to say that the holiday destination that the Japanese are most yearning for now, Hawaii must be ranked first.

Except because it is the place of Mi Guo's father, it has its own halo.

In addition, Hawaii's beautiful and pleasant outlying island scenery and warm and comfortable climate are also a great weapon to attract Japanese people to travel.

In addition, there are many local Japanese people in Hawaii, and the neon culture has penetrated into every corner of it.

Japanese people often feel "at home" when they arrive in Hawaii.

It's not the bubble era yet, and vacations to Hawaii are presumably only the privilege of the rich.

Although Osone Kozo is also a middle and high-level executive at Sony, he is quite satisfied with a place like Hawaii.

When he came to his minister's office, Osone Kozo took the report that the secretary had prepared.

He is going to check the sales of Walkman during the New Year's holiday. Sony's Walkman factory has been operating at full capacity in the past six months.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current walkman is another growth point for Sony's profits.

And such a star product was developed under his leadership.

Presumably this year's president's office will also have its own place, Osone Yukizoshi thought complacently.

Um? Walkman sales growth appears to be somewhat below expectations.

Osone Kozo looked at the report in his hand, and immediately frowned.

Although the overall growth is still there, compared with the first half of the month, the growth rate has slowed down significantly.

Market saturated? As soon as this idea came to mind, Osone Kozo shook his head.

Sony has internally estimated that the Walkman market will be on the rise in the next few years.

It will never fall into a growth bottleneck in just half a year. Besides, the factory's production capacity has not been fully released, which is not in line with the laws of economics.

It's not that the market is saturated, and we haven't encountered quality problems, so why is growth sluggish.

Just when Osone Kozo wanted to call the secretary for more detailed information, Nakajima Heitaro from the research institute suddenly knocked on the door with a hurried expression.

"Osone-san, would you like to see this?"

As he spoke, Nakajima Heitaro handed the specially collected flashman and the somewhat familiar lawyer's letter from Shirakawa Electric to Osone Kozo.

To be honest, when Nakajima Heitaro saw the lawyer's letter for the first time, he almost laughed out of breath.

The flashman of your Shirakawa Electric is the same as the walkman of Sony.

Now it's even worse, even the lawyer's letter is the same.

When he just received the lawyer's letter from Shirakawa Electric, Heitaro Nakajima almost yelled at the other party as a shameless asshole.

However, when I saw the English patent attached to the lawyer's letter, I broke out in a cold sweat.

To be honest, he really didn't know that the idea of ​​the Walkman had already been registered abroad a few years ago.

But Sony's Walkman is definitely the world's first Walkman, among them...

Nakajima Heitaro didn't dare to think deeply, he realized that Shirakawa Electric's flashman was definitely a hot potato.

Originally thought it was another small club that was not afraid of death, and planned to put all their eggs in one bet.

Generally, for this kind of infringement, a letter from a lawyer will scare the other party to the ground immediately.

He is not unexperienced in dealing with such small problems.

He didn't know that things were far more complicated than he imagined. Thanks to him, he also read a fellowship and didn't directly pass it on to the board of directors.

Since the matter is troublesome, of course it must be thrown out.

Then the best person to take the blame, of course, is the Osone Yukio-san in front of him.

Osone Kozo is actually ten years younger than Nakajima Heitaro, and he is ranked according to the general club.

In theory, Osone Kozo should call Nakajima Heitaro his senior.

It's just a pity that Osone Kozo entered the company more than ten years earlier than Nakajima Heitaro.

The latter changed careers in other clubs several times before joining Sony at the age of fifty as the director of the Institute of Tape Recording Technology.

At present, the Institute of Tape Recording Technology is attached to the Tape Stereo Division.

In terms of rank, the two are similar, but in terms of organizational structure, Nakajima Heitaro is half as tall as Sone Yuki.

Heitaro Nakajima, who is a little arrogant in his heart, actually has complicated feelings about Osone Kozo.

The opponent's technical strength is comparable to his own, but his seniority makes him a little unconvinced and has always been inferior to the opponent.

After all, he was in charge of designing the sound system for the Tokyo Olympics, so this qualification will not let him bow his head easily.

Now, since there is trouble. That's just right, let Osone-san show the responsibility of the superior.

Nakajima Heitaro watched silently, and he noticed that Osone Kozo's face was getting darker and darker.

Well, it's the same as my previous self.

"Shameless! Plagiarizing our ideas, how dare you send us a lawyer's letter?!

I want all the information on this Baichuan Electric within three minutes! "

Osone Kozo is not a good tempered person, he flew into a rage just after reading Shirakawa Electric's lawyer's letter.

Heitaro Nakajima silently turned over a page of the lawyer's letter in front of him.

Um? Patents?

Osone Kozo changed color suddenly.

"Quick, I'm going to see Oga Norio-san!"

Shocked, Osone Kozo jumped up, hurriedly ran out the door with the documents.

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Shirakawa Electric, who didn't know that Shirakawa Kaede stabbed Sony's ass, is happily celebrating with everyone that the flashman has sold 60,000 units.

Yes, 60,000 units!

In less than two weeks, Shirakawa Electric shipped a total of 60,000 Walkmans in the ten days since the flashman was launched.

According to the sales situation in the market, how much is shipped is almost equivalent to how much is sold.

At the moment, the warehouse inside Baichuan Electric is empty, and there is not a single flashman left.

And orders are still squeezed in a large number, which cannot be completed by relying on the current production line alone.

Therefore, from the first day of work in various companies during the New Year, Baichuan Electric urged equipment manufacturers to deliver goods.

At present, the first batch of machines has arrived from the nearest equipment manufacturer in Tokyo.

Yasuda and Yamazaki Hui are leading people to carry out installation and debugging intensively.

If all goes well, a second production line will join the flashman production line in two weeks.

But to be honest, the sales of 60,000 units in two weeks not only exceeded the expectations of everyone in Baichuan Electric, but also exceeded the most optimistic figure in Baichuan Feng's heart.

At first he thought it would be a big success if there were 30,000 copies.

Unexpectedly, everyone still underestimated the superimposed power of the two holidays of Christmas and New Year.

Neon people, sweep up the goods, the scene is quite domineering.

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