Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 5 Plans don’t change quickly

1043, 1042, 1044...

Masato Takeshita looked at the stock index constantly jumping on the big screen and suddenly felt strange.

The Nikkei was already above 80 points in the 10000s, so how come it suddenly became 1000 points?

Is there something wrong with the equipment?

But that’s not right. If there was a problem with the equipment, everyone would have started complaining.

However, Masato Takeshita soon discovered the problem through the text next to the stock index.

The stock index on the big screen is not the Nikkei 225, but the older Tokyo Stock Exchange Stock Index, which we often call the Topix Index.

"Uh, I was stupid."

Only then did Masato Takeshita remember that although Nikkei 225 was launched by a Japanese newspaper, the first exchange to launch Nikkei index futures was the Singapore Exchange.

The key point is that Singapore's Nikkei has not been launched yet and will have to wait until September this year. Even if he wants to trade stock index futures now, he can't do it at all.

In fact, stock index futures are already commonplace in the eyes of financial practitioners in the 21st century. But it is actually a new product, which did not appear in the United States until 1982.

Japan would not launch its first stock index futures until 1987. As for Nikkei 225, it would not be launched in Japan until two years later in 1988 by the Osaka Exchange.

"Okay, let's just trade stocks honestly. It's safer this way."

After more than 10 days of hard planning, it ended up being a false alarm. Masato Takeshita was feeling a little depressed.

All I can say is that plans are not as fast as changes.

But soon, he recovered.

During Japan's bubble era, stock prices soared. Even if you couldn't speculate on the stock index, you could still get rich by speculating in stocks. It's just that it's a little slower and requires more frequent operations.

"Hello, I will sell out all my Dai-ichi Kangyo stocks, and then use the funds from before to buy Nintendo with a 5x leverage." Masato Takeshita, who had finally queued up and squeezed to the business window, quickly told the business manager his request.

There has been no good news in the financial industry during this period, but even so, the shares of Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank that Masato Takeshita bought rose by 5%.

It can be seen how hot Japan's financial industry is.

"Okay, buy all of Nintendo with 5x leverage, right?"

"Yes."

Masato Takeshita didn't know much about most Japanese companies, but the gaming industry was an exception.

He likes playing games and also likes reading the development history of game companies.

Nintendo is the gaming company he looks at the most.

Nintendo was originally a manufacturer of playing cards, but the market for playing cards is limited. Hiroshi Yamauchi, who had strong ambitions, was not content with this. After several struggles, he chose the industry he would strive for his whole life - the gaming industry.

This decision was quite successful.
In 1980, Nintendo launched the handheld Game & Watch, which sold 3200 million units.

The FC game console, also known as the red and white machine, was launched in 1983. It had legitimate sales of over 6100 million units and pirated sales of hundreds of millions, directly influencing the history of world games.

More importantly, compared to the Game & Watch handheld, the FC console can sell game cartridges separately. That means even if the FC console is not sold, it can still make money from third-party game commissions and its own first-party developed games.

Although it is not the best time to buy Nintendo shares now, it is not too late either, because in 1985, Nintendo's red and white console officially entered the United States, the world's largest single market.

I believe that as the sales of the Famicom continue to rise in the United States, Nintendo's stock will also rise.

However, in order to prevent the occurrence of black swan events, Takeshita Masato did not go all in. He reserved half of the funds and still placed them in bank blue chip stocks.

In addition to Nintendo, he also bought some stocks of other game companies. Nintendo game consoles are selling well in the United States, which is good news for Nintendo and third-party game console manufacturers.

If nothing unexpected happens, these gaming companies will see their stocks surge.

Except Sega, of course.

Because Sega is also full of ambition and wants to become a console manufacturer that controls its own destiny, rather than following the trend and becoming a third-party game manufacturer.

Masato Takeshita did not choose the intraday stock trading route, and for a while he became a little idle. He thought about it carefully and finally decided to continue interviewing to make money.

"Sure enough, true fragrance is the first law of mankind."

Masato Takeshita smiled and shook his head, then left the securities company humming to himself.

……

After returning home, the bored Masato Takeshita thought of Sister Izumizu whom he met yesterday, and immediately dialed the contact number the girl left yesterday.

Of course, the girl behind is Eri Tanaka.

However, Eri Tanaka is Izumi Sakai's best friend, so if you round it off, it means that it was given to her by Izumi Sakai herself.

"Hello, my name is Masato Takeshita. Is this Kamachi Sachiko's house?"

"Well, this is the Kamachi residence, I'm Kamachi Keiko. Are you looking for my sister? Sorry, please wait a moment, I'll go call her."

"OK, thanks!"

The young girl over there rushed into her sister's room impatiently before Masato Takeshita could reply.

"Oune-chan, someone called you. It's a boy with a nice voice."

"Someone is looking for me, and it's a boy?"

Izumi Sakai attends a girls' school, and apart from her younger brother, she has no familiar male peers. She was a little stunned at first, but soon realized that it should be the boy she had a pleasant chat with yesterday.

"Oh. Okay, I get it."

Sister Quanshui pretended nothing had happened and walked past her sister naturally.

Although Izumi Sakai looked no different from usual, her younger sister, Keiko Kamachi, still discovered some clues.

My sister's cheeks were slightly red and her eyes looked a little unnatural.

The girl smiled like a little fox and asked, "Ou Nei-chan, are you secretly dating a boyfriend without telling your family?"

When she heard the word "boyfriend", Sister Izumizu instinctively thought of the conversation she had with Eri yesterday about marriage, and her cheeks unconsciously blushed.

But thinking of her sister still around, she calmed down instantly, frowned and said slowly: "I met her after the interview yesterday, don't say anything nonsense."

Then Sister Quanshui quickened her pace, trying to avoid her sister from continuing to pester her.

"Oh, I see!"

Kamaike Keiko didn't believe her sister's words at all, and a playful smile appeared on her face. But when she saw her sister had walked near the phone, she tactfully said nothing more.

"Hello, I'm Sachiko Kamachi, what can I do for you?"

Although her younger sister teased her with her eyes, Sister Izumizu did not blame the culprit, Takeshita Masato, and her voice remained as elegant as water, soft and clear.

(End of this chapter)