Reborn Tokyo Golden Age

When passengers exit the subway from Shinjuku-nishi Station, the first thing they can see is a commercial building with a unique shape diagonally opposite the intersection in front of them.

Looking at the appearance alone, it is very similar to the "L" in the "Block Game" in Shirakawa Electric's handheld console, except that this building has the "L" slightly turned at an angle.

Therefore, tens of thousands of passengers coming out of Shinjuku Subway Station every day, whenever they see the building in front of them, they will jokingly say, "The Cube Building has arrived."

But don’t get me wrong, it has nothing to do with Shirakawa Electric. The words "Fuji Heavy Industries" on the top of the building are trying to show the world that their name is "Fuji" and not "Cube Building".

At this moment, in a conference room on the top floor of this bustling building, the atmosphere was anything but relaxed.

"So Nissan is preparing to sell our stocks?" A middle-aged man in his fifties with bald hair and black-rimmed glasses frowned.

"To be precise, it is a share transfer, not a stock sale." Tajima Toshihiro had no choice but to correct his statement again.

Although Toshihiro Tajima despises Nakajima Gentaro-san in his heart, his family is one of the founding shareholders of Fuji Heavy Industries.

"All 20% of the equity is transferred. What is the difference between this and selling? Is the stock market really not going to plummet?"

Pushing up the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose, Gentaro Nakajima made what he called an impassioned speech.

I don't know, but I thought he was really concerned about Fuji Heavy Industries' business problems.

However, everyone in the conference room knew his purpose, so everyone's expressions were very calm.

His speech was not taken seriously, and Gentaro Nakajima couldn't help but feel a little angry.

"Baga! We must convince Nissan to cancel this deal. Otherwise, if the market loses confidence in Fuji Heavy Industries, it will have disastrous consequences!"

Catastrophic consequences? Tajima Toshihiro curled his lips disdainfully, are you worried that your political career will have disastrous consequences?

The reason why Nakajima Gentaro is so excited is not because he really cares about Fuji Heavy Industries' business problems.

What he really cares about is the retention of the aircraft division under Fuji Heavy Industries.

Fuji Heavy Industries not only has the automotive business, it also has an aircraft division and an environmental technology division.

In the past, the Aircraft Division manufactured aircraft, and they were not civil aircraft.

Later, after splitting and reorganization, special-purpose aircraft were gradually no longer manufactured, but multi-purpose small aircraft for civil aviation were transformed.

However, due to the opportunity of the Zaibatsu's resurrection, Fuji Heavy Industries still cooperates with the Ministry of Defense. The main models produced are training aircraft and helicopters.

These businesses are the legacy of the former Nakajima Aviation Machinery Research Institute, and its founder, Hisashi Nakajima Chihei, is the father of Nakajima Gentaro.

Chihei Nakajima held an official position before founding Nakajima Aircraft Machinery Research Institute. Because he retired midway and switched to manufacturing, the current Fuji Heavy Industries was born.

But after all, he had been an official and his title was not low. Therefore, in the 1950s, Chiheihisa Nakajima re-entered politics and held positions of real power such as Minister of Railways and Minister of Commerce and Industry.

As one of his sons, Gentaro Nakajima inherited his father's political legacy and now serves as Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, and Culture in the Takeshita Cabinet.

From the name, you can tell that this is a civil official responsible for education, academics, sports, and culture. In terms of actual power, he is more than a step behind his father.

This is the case for political families. If their descendants fail to live up to their expectations, they will receive less and less political legacy.

But despite this, Gentaro Nakajima is still very nervous about the aircraft division under Fuji Heavy Industries.

Because of its cooperative relationship with the Ministry of Defense, the Aircraft Division is regarded as a political asset used by Gentaro Nakajima to gain profits.

He doesn't really care whether Fuji Heavy Industries loses money, since he won't be asked to pay for it himself.

However, the aircraft division must be safe and sound and ensure a sufficient budget every year to maintain a cooperative relationship with the Ministry of Defense.

However, he had heard that Shirakawa-san, a nouveau riche, was only interested in cars.

Just look at the private runways built on the Shonan coast and you will know that if you are not an enthusiast, you will never be able to do this.

Gentaro Nakajima was very worried that Shirakawa Kaede would favor one after taking over Fuji Heavy Industries and only invest in automobile research and development in the budget, but in the end he would destroy his aircraft division.

He always felt that Bai Chuanfeng was too young and young people were unreliable.

Facing Gentaro Nakajima's excited expression, Toshihiro Tajima straightened his posture slightly.

"Nakajima-san, the person who took over Nissan's shares is Shirakawa Holdings. It's not some unknown small club, it's the famous Shirakawa Zaibatsu.

Do you know what the Forbes rich list estimates Shirakawa Maple-san’s assets? $25 billion! This number has increased by another 13% this year!

This is just his personal wealth. The financial resources of the chaebols represented by Shirakawa Holdings are even more amazing. "

"So what? Fuji Heavy Industries is Neon's oldest machinery manufacturer, and its glory cannot be tarnished!"

Gentaro Nakajima was not frightened by the $25 billion. It was not his own money and could not be seen or touched.

In the final analysis, it is more practical to keep our own aircraft division.

My term of office is approaching soon. Whether I can find a good pension position depends on the political contribution of the aircraft division.

After all, everyone knows that Fuji Heavy Industries' achievements in the aircraft industry are all inherited from the Nakajima family's legacy.

Considering its past achievements, the cabinet will never treat itself badly.

But at this juncture, if there are any setbacks in the Aircraft Division, wouldn't the future of his political career be uncertain?

Therefore, Gentaro Nakajima's attitude was very tough and he did not even give Toshihiro Tajima a chance to explain.

After finally waiting for him to calm down, Tajima Toshihiro slowly sat up straight.

"Nakajima-san, please don't get excited, I haven't finished speaking yet.

We have communicated with Nissan and Shirakawa-san before, and Shirakawa-san promised to retain the aircraft division.

And within the executable scope, a part of the R\u0026D budget will be appropriately increased, which can be written into the contract. "

As soon as Toshihiro Tajima finished speaking, Gentaro Nakajima's originally angry expression suddenly became subtle.

Hey, this Shirakawa-san's approach seems to be somewhat inconsistent with the information he has obtained?

But these are not important. What is important is that we can keep our aircraft division.

Thinking of this, Gentaro Nakajima coughed lightly, "As long as we can ensure that all the business of Fuji Heavy Industries can be properly settled.

As for Nissan's transfer of equity, I think we can discuss it. "

Gentaro Nakajima, who can be said to have completed the Sichuan opera face change, has now returned to the serious look of a politician.

“Now that Tajima-san has communicated with Shirakawa Holdings and Nissan, let’s go over the details.

Oh, by the way, regarding the equity change, Duanda-san, do you have any opinions? "

After saying that, Gentaro Nakajima looked at a middle-aged man on the other side of the conference table. He was Taizo Hata, the head of Fuji Bank.

Today, Fuji Bank, which he represents, is also one of the shareholders of Fuji Heavy Industries.

Taizo Taizo, who was already a little impatient, subconsciously frowned when Gentaro Nakajima pointed at him.

“Fuji Bank will not be directly involved in the operational issues of Fuji Heavy Industries.

However, the urgent matter that needs to be solved at present is not whether the shares are changed or not, but the loss problem of Fuji Heavy Industries.

The huge loss of nearly 100 billion yen is something that cannot be explained under any circumstances.

Fuji Bank is responsible for nearly half of such a huge fiscal deficit.

But in the current real estate market, you have also seen that Fuji Bank no longer has the ability to provide financial support to Fuji Heavy Industries. "

Taizo Taizo’s meaning is obvious, that is, Fuji Bank does not care about the equity changes of Fuji Heavy Industries.

But what if Fuji Heavy Industries wants to borrow money from Fuji Bank again? sorry, we do not have that!

There is already Nissan within the Fuji consortium, and Fuji Heavy Industries, which is relatively niche, has long since become like a grandma who doesn't care for an uncle who doesn't love it.

Coupled with the continuous losses, even Fuji Bank, which is rich and powerful, dislikes it more and more.

These traditional consortiums are not harmonious within themselves. Their internal interests are complex and their factions are deeply intertwined.

Fuji Heavy Industries, which already had a weak sense of existence, is now almost marginalized.

So today's so-called shareholders' meeting, in fact, Taizo Taizo didn't want to come at all.

Hearing that they were going to make a series of equity changes in Fuji Heavy Industries, Taizo's first reaction was not to borrow money from himself.

It's not that Fuji Bank really can't squeeze out the money, but that Fuji Bank is having a hard time fighting Sumitomo Bank outside the world at this time.

Since the bubble era, Sumitomo Bank has been actively expanding its business while also absorbing and merging other small banks.

They used the Tokyo metropolitan area as an offensive and began to slowly erode the market share of other commercial banks.

The most anxious one among them is Fuji Bank. Market loss is one of the factors, and its position as the number two bank in the city is about to be lost.

Yes, Fuji Bank’s size at this time ranked second in Neon, with No.1 Bank being the first.

Before the establishment of Daiichi Bank in the 1970s, Fuji Bank had the largest number of branches in the neon banking industry, with nearly 200 branches nationwide.

Later, this position was given to No. 1 Bank, and Fuji Bank ranked second.

But now Sumitomo Bank has challenged it and begun to attack the second position.

Therefore, Fuji Bank, which is anxious, has now begun a hand-to-hand battle with Sumitomo Bank.

The sales teams of the two banks often appear in the president's office of the same club and engage in close combat.

In order to compete for the loan business, the fierce competition between the two companies can be called a competition in the ring.

In order to win more loan business, Fuji Bank has started a "housing loan" model.

It is secured by a residence and allows users to freely use credit card loans for any purpose.

This virtually relaxed the review process and expanded the loan limit.

In addition, Fuji Bank is even preparing to further develop a new business of "painting mortgage loans".

The so-called painting mortgage loan is a type of art mortgage loan.

However, the art of painting itself is difficult to realize.

Without buyer approval, it is no different than a piece of waste paper.

But Fuji Bank dares to do this, all for the purpose of lending more money and handling more loan business.

Think again about the scene that Shirakawa Kaede and Kamai Sachiko saw in the Minato Gallery.

A worthless painting can be sold for millions of yen.

So are there any unknown painters who take the invoices from the gallery and go to Fuji Bank to get a painting mortgage loan?

Haha, there's a big hole here.

And all these magical operations are all kinds of crooked tricks that Fuji Bank came up with in order to compete with Sumitomo Bank for the market.

Nowadays, newspapers outside are still reporting on the "FS War (Fuji, Sumitomo)".

Therefore, in order to retain enough ammunition, we will go all out to deal with Sumitomo Bank.

Taizo Taizo's first speech at the shareholders' meeting was, "With both hands spread out, there is no money!"