Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 281 Welfare Construction
A flash of inspiration came to his mind, making it difficult for Masato Takeshita to stroll and chat leisurely.

He quickly ended the topic and took a bus back to Tokyo overnight.

The next morning, the young man came to the company early.

"Sakai, immediately notify the company's vice presidents to hold a meeting at 2 pm."

"Hi!"

Seeing her president's serious expression, Keiko Sakai knew that something big was happening. She did not dare to delay and immediately called several vice presidents.

"Good morning, President Suzuki. The president invites you to a meeting at the headquarters at 2 o'clock this afternoon. I hope you can come on time."

"I'm sorry, I don't know either. But the president's expression seems a little heavy, so it must be very important."

"No, this is what I should do."

"Hi, ok, bye!"

Although the meeting was sudden, with the presence of mobile phones and telephones, Keiko Sakai was able to quickly pass the message directly to the five vice presidents.

Time soon came to 2 p.m., and Zensuke Suzuki, Lou Gerstner, Rogers and others arrived at the small conference room early.

They all received the message from Keiko Sakai about the president's mood and knew that something big might happen today.

"Hello, President!"

As soon as Masato Takeshita walked to his seat, several vice presidents stood up and greeted him respectfully.

"Well, hello everyone."

The young man nodded, sat down in his seat, and went straight to the point of today.

"When I was inspecting Xinghai's OEM business yesterday, it suddenly occurred to me that the company does not pay enough attention to the education of its employees' children."

"When employees transfer from one place to another, they have to deal with such troubles as finding housing and arranging school transfers for their children."

"On the one hand, things are complicated and busy, and on the other hand, it is easy for school bullying to occur."

In anime, transfer students are very popular, but in reality, they are very easy to be ridiculed.

If you move from a small place to a big city like Tokyo, your classmates will easily laugh at you as a bumpkin. If you move from a big city to a small city like Hitachi, your classmates will also easily think that your father has been demoted.

It can be said that transfer students encounter bullying several times more than normal local students.

“So my opinion is to do it both ways.”

"In places where the company has a large number of employees, we recruit outstanding teachers from all over the country to set up schools for children of the company."

"In places where the company has a small number of employees, we cooperate with well-known local schools to concentrate the company's students in one school. This way, even if they need to transfer schools, there will be someone to take care of them."

Although doing so may also lead to various problems, such as two students hating each other because their parents don't get along, there are generally more advantages.

The remaining shortcomings need to be made up by the school.

"What do you think of my idea?"

At the end, the young man glanced at everyone, hoping that they could come up with a more reasonable strategy.

"I think this is great and can greatly increase employees' loyalty to the company."

Suzuki Zensuke first agreed, then changed the subject and asked.

"But I wonder if the tuition fee will be high or low after we set up our own school?"

He actually wanted to ask directly whether the company relied on this to make money, but his long-term living habits made him use euphemistic words.

"The tuition fees are enough to keep the school running normally. We don't make any profit from it."

Although the education industry is very profitable, Xinghai Group has no shortage of these small things.

The tuition fees of all students of Xinghai Group added together may not be as much as what its subsidiary Xinghai Entertainment earns from a single popular game.

"I also think this is a good idea. Employees no longer need to worry about transfers."

Gerstner managed the largest number of employees, and occasionally heard some employees complain about this. But perhaps because he was used to it, he never thought that the company could set up a school specifically for this matter.

Now that his own president had this idea, he naturally strongly supported it.

This is a good thing, as it can increase employees' loyalty to the company and reduce the consumption of their energy.

People's energy is limited. If too much energy is spent on family, it will be difficult to take care of work.

The president and two heavyweight bosses chose to agree, and Rogers, Kamoto Takamasa and others followed suit.

Although the company they manage is relatively small and located in downtown Tokyo, they basically do not need to consider the schooling of employees' children, but since it is an employee benefit, they might as well choose to agree to it.

"Very good. I hope everyone can submit feasible plans based on their own company's situation. The sooner they are implemented, the sooner the problem can be solved."

After talking about primary and secondary education, Masato Takeshita began to talk about higher education.

"It is important to pay attention to the compulsory education of employees' children, and the higher education stage as well. Children of employees who are admitted to famous domestic and foreign universities can receive awards from the company every year."

"For better schools, such as early-stage colleges in China, Oxford and Cambridge + London School of Economics and Political Science in the UK, and the top 10 universities in the United States, each student can receive a scholarship of $10 per year."

The strength of Japanese universities today is far greater than that of the 21st century, and the two major universities of Hayashi and Keio are close to the level of the top 20 universities in the United States.

However, as time goes by, Japanese universities are declining. Even the two giants of the future, such as the early Qing Dynasty, may not be able to compare with the top 50 universities in the United States.

Of course, this allocation of bonuses also takes care of domestic schools. After all, no matter how much we exaggerate the strength of Zaoqing, it is still far from the level of Oxford and Cambridge.

China is at the other extreme.

The quality of students in the best universities in China, Tsinghua University and Peking University, is far better than that of Zaoqing University. However, in terms of scientific research and other strengths, they are probably not as good as Zaoqing University.

There is no way. The school is really poor and has no money to do experiments.

However, as time goes by, China is getting richer and richer. Tsinghua and Peking University will soon be able to easily surpass Zaoqing University in terms of the quality of their personnel.

As for the future, conquering Tokyo University is no problem.

The foundation of a university is important, but funding is more important.

Only with money can a school have everything.

Why did universities in the northwest and northeast of China generally decline in later generations? Isn’t it because of lack of money leading to insufficient scientific research funds?
Take the giant Jilin University as an example. Its ranking kept declining due to lack of money, and later it became a bottom-tier 985 university.

As for indigestion caused by swallowing too much, that is completely putting the cart before the horse.

Zhejiang University also merged a large number of universities in the province, but because it had money, it was able to easily solve similar problems.

"For those who are not so good, there are high-level national universities in Japan, with scholarships of 5 US dollars per person per year."

Private universities other than Hayashi University are of mixed quality, and anyone with money can attend. Unlike public universities, which require a certain level of education, there are few exceptions.

Zaoqing is now similar to a public university. Except for a few young masters and young ladies, most of the students are admitted based on their own merits.

Because the current Japanese government is still relatively wealthy and has given a lot of subsidies to Hayashi University, the school's admission threshold is also relatively high.

Of course, Zaoqing also fell into depravity in later generations.

Because the Japanese government has no money, the subsidy for Hayashi has been greatly reduced. If the school wants to continue to maintain its strength, it can only increase its income.

Britain in later generations also had the same troubles. The country's strength declined and domestic universities were short of funds. In order to maintain the strength of the school, they could only set up various high-fee water majors.

The most classic ones are Chinese language and literature, Chinese language, and classical Chinese, which are aimed at Chinese people. These majors are almost equivalent to selling academic qualifications.

As for Australia, it is even worse. In some universities, two-fifths of the students are Chinese.

The myth of international students has been shattered, largely due to the poor quality of their majors.

"This is a very good proposal. It can achieve great results with little money."

This time, Rogers, an expert on Japan, was the first to agree.

Xinghai Group spends an estimated several hundred to tens of millions of dollars on college students every year, but it can more easily win the hearts of its employees.

Simply perfect.

Of course, as the company grows in size, expenses may skyrocket in the future, but that doesn’t matter, because the company will be more profitable by then.

The six people discussed for an entire afternoon and finally formed ten rules under the leadership of Masato Takeshita, covering all stages of education from kindergarten to university.

This will be the basic rule of Xinghai Group and will be forever engraved on the core foundation of the company.

The general direction is in place, and the details are all up to the leaders of the subsidiary companies to fill in. Anyway, the formal enrollment will not start until next year, so there is still a lot of time to make adjustments.

After solving the top priority in his mind, Masato Takeshita once again turned his attention to the laboratory in Sendai.

The area here is very large, and one communication team is too small.

He thought about it and decided to add a panel project here. As for the research direction, it was naturally liquid crystal display technology.

Currently, there are two paths to choose from in global panel technology.

One path is plasma technology, and the other is liquid crystal technology.

The advantage of plasma technology is higher definition, but the disadvantage is heat. If you leave the TV on when you go out, the screen is likely to burn out when you come back.

The advantage of LCD technology is durability, but the disadvantage is that the screen is blurry and not as stunning as plasma TV.

Therefore, most panel manufacturers now adopt the plasma technology route.

Among them, Fujitsu of Japan went the furthest and soon developed commercial plasma TVs. Panasonic was also quite capable and later even monopolized the plasma technology route.

As for LCD technology, no company is optimistic about it for now, and panel companies are all treating it as a backup plan.

Young people know the future direction of development, so they are naturally prepared to go the LCD route. It would be great if they could have a monopoly like Qualcomm.

Many people in later generations said that Japan's panel industry and new energy industry failed because they ate alone. But this is completely ignoring objective facts and drawing the target first before shooting an arrow.

Sony has a monopoly on Trinitron TVs and Walkmans, and the world can only hold back. Qualcomm has a monopoly on 3G and 4G technology, and the world can only pay for it.

Japan's panel and new energy industries did not fail because they tried to monopolize the market, but because they chose the wrong route.

Liquid crystal is more practical than plasma in large-scale applications.

Not to mention that plasma screens are prone to overheating, the fact that staying on a static screen for a long time can cause the screen to be damaged is why it cannot enter the computer and mobile phone markets.

In contrast, the market for LCD screens is extremely broad, ranging from large televisions and outdoor screens to small calculators and mobile phones.

The same is true for new energy.

Hydrogen is indeed clean, but its actual application is dangerous. Driving a hydrogen car is like driving a walking bomb.

Which country dares to make this move? Which person dares to be so reckless?

Although battery new energy technology also has various problems, it is relatively safer. Companies that take the new energy route can only choose electric energy.

Masato Takeshita was just thinking about it while planning his own panel industry. Soon, a document on the development of LCD technology was released.

"LCD, this won't work, right?"

After reading the young man's display screen planning plan, Lou Gerstner looked up with some confusion.

He didn't understand why his own president would take this backward path.

The picture is so blurry that the characters are not clear at all, so it can only be used as a small screen on calculators and game consoles.

"There are too many companies pursuing plasma, so it's hard for us to catch up in terms of technology. LCD is different, as there is no leading company at the moment."

At present, the whole world is more optimistic about plasma technology.

There is no way, the picture quality is really amazing, it is a level higher than LCD screens.

"Is that all?"

Lou Gerstner always felt that his president was not optimistic about plasma technology, but he was not stupid enough to ask.

"Okay, I understand. How many technicians are needed this time?"

"It doesn't need to be many, 20 people will be enough."

Liquid crystal technology has not yet made a breakthrough, so we don’t need too many people for now. Now we are just like the lithography project, maintaining the scale of the experiment. When the financial crisis breaks out, it will be the best time for the company to enter these two industries in a big way.

"Well, that's good."

20 researchers will not affect the normal operation of the company. If the number is too large, Xinghai Semiconductor will have to postpone research and development work in some areas.

However, thinking of the difficulty of panel technology, he couldn't help but ask further questions.

"With so few people, it should be difficult to achieve results, right?"

"This is only the first year. We can solve the problem of staff shortage by recruiting more doctoral students, master's students and undergraduates next year."

"Besides, the lab is near a university, so we can definitely collaborate with authoritative professors on campus."

Masato Takeshita attaches as much importance to the panel industry as to cutting-edge semiconductors, because the panel industry can accommodate a large number of employed people.

At that time, whether building a factory domestically or in China, we can get strong support from the government.

The same applies to Xinghai Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Xinghai Semiconductor.

This is an electronics assembly company similar to Foxconn, and it will flourish in both China and Japan in the future. It will take the electronics OEM route and severely suppress the rise of some traitors.

"Understood. I will go ask Masuoka-san for his opinion right away."

Fujio Masuoka is the chief scientist of Star Ocean Semiconductor, and Gerstner always asks for his opinion on technology-related matters.

If Fujio Masuoka strongly opposed it, Gerstner would persuade him if possible, but if that didn't work, he would give up. The two of them divided the work and cooperated, and only then did Xinghai Semiconductor develop better and better.

"Well, let's go."

The young man is now a little afraid to meet Fujio Masuoka because he has taken too much advantage of the First Laboratory.

After Lou Gerstner left, he began to organize the knowledge related to the LCD industry deep in his mind.

"This one is good, write it down. This one is also good..."

In this way, when seeing off the employees, we can better describe the bright future of LCD technology to the experimenters.

Make it clear to everyone that you are not abandoned marginal members, but the new hope for the company's future.

(End of this chapter)