Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 9 Trolley Luggage
"Sorry, Takeshita-san, I kept you waiting."

The door of the restaurant's private room was opened and a tall and thin young man came in.

He wore gold-rimmed glasses, his black suit was exquisite without a single wrinkle, his hair was combed neatly, and he looked like a gentleman but also a social elite.

Society is indeed a big melting pot!

In less than a year, my senior brother has become full of confidence.

Masato Takeshita looked at the handsome young man in front of him and found it hard to equate him with the decadent senior from college who often did not wash his hair or wear socks.

"I should be the one to say sorry for bothering Brother Haneda at this late hour."

The future of the employees of Industrial Bank is bright, but they are very busy. Not to mention the normal season, even Saturdays and Sundays are very busy.

Of course, you can also choose to just muddle through.

But the price of slacking off is that you will be sent to an affiliated company and completely lose your personal future.

That’s right, before the Japanese bubble economy burst, this was the greatest punishment a company could impose on its employees.

Because Japan implemented the lifetime employment system at that time, once an ordinary person joined a company, it basically meant working for that company for the rest of their lives.

Many times, even if employees make very serious mistakes, at most they are exiled to an affiliated company or transferred from big cities like Tokyo to rural areas such as Okinawa and Hokkaido.

Although there is no future and the salary may also decrease, it should be no problem to support a family.

It has the flavor of a Chinese civil servant.

But then again, before the bursting of its bubble economy, Japan's main policies were actually similar to those of China, both of which took the path of big government state intervention.

The government controls the development of major enterprises by controlling state-owned banks and some basic monopoly industries such as communications, postal services, and railways.

If the United States had not intervened strongly and forced Japan to carry out financial liberalization reforms, Japan would never have relaxed its vigilance against private enterprises, nor would it have privatized state-owned enterprises one after another.

However, even so, Japan still follows the path of big government in later generations. The government has shares in many companies, thus influencing the direction of corporate development.

"It's okay. We are all members of the Daomen clan. It's only natural for the seniors to take care of the juniors."

Japan is a country full of various clan forces.
In the political field, there is the famous Triangle Daifukuchu, in the economic field, there are the six major chaebols, and in the academic field, there are the Akamon clan, the Inamon clan, the Mitakai, the Josuikai, and so on.

The Inamon clan at Waseda University is not as good as the Akamon clan at the University of Tokyo in the political arena, nor as good as the Mitakai clan at Keio University in the economic world. It only has an advantage in the publishing and media field, so the Inamon clan is extremely united from top to bottom.

Relying on the power of unity, the Daomen clan is now developing very rapidly both politically and economically.

Politically, the Waseda clan successfully sent a large number of Waseda children to high government positions by investing in Kakuei Tanaka, who was known as the hidden shogun of the Showa era.

For example, the current Japanese Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita and young talents in the Liberal Democratic Party such as Keizo Obuchi.

However, Kakuei Tanaka was not a graduate of Waseda University after all, and he won over Waseda entirely through his daughter Tanaka Makiko. So when he gradually aged, members of the Tanaka faction, led by Takeshita Noboru, stabbed Kakuei Tanaka in the back in 1985, sending him off from the throne of the Dark General.

If Kakuei Tanaka was the most important founder of the Inamon clan's rise in the political field, then Noboru Takeshita was the main driving force behind the Inamon clan becoming the second largest political force in Japan.

The reason why Waseda University was able to catch up and become the school that has produced the most prime ministers in post-war Japan.

Takeshita Nobuyuki made great contributions.

With his encouragement, more students from Waseda University became prime minister.

Toshiki Kaifu, Keizo Obuchi, and Yoshiro Mori were all pushed to power by him.

But in general, Waseda University is still far behind the University of Tokyo in terms of politics. The most typical example is the Japanese National Civil Service Examination.

The University of Tokyo has about 400 people selected, while Kyoto University and Waseda University, which ranked second and third, have less than 200 people.

The first thing Masato Takeshita did after traveling through time was to join the Inamon clan, and then took the opportunity to get acquainted with the young seniors there.

For example, he knew the senior student Haneda Ichiro in front of him, but he was not familiar with him. He became familiar with him after he joined the Inamon clan. In addition, there was the Japanese Prime Minister before he traveled through time, and they were all benefits he gained after joining the Inamon clan.

However, that senior was in charge of foreign exchange at Nagashiki Bank, and what Masato Takeshita needed was a financing loan, so he approached senior Ichiro Haneda who was in charge of financial loans.

Ichiro Haneda then continued in a rather generous manner, "Whatever you want to eat today, just order whatever you want. I'll pay for it later."

There is a strong relationship between seniors and juniors in Japan. When seniors and juniors eat together, the seniors will usually pay the bill.

"Let me do it. I invited you this time."

Although it is a tradition for the senior brother to pay the bill, Masato Takeshita is now in need of help, so he naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to agree.

"You're welcome. You can get it reimbursed at the company."

With the Japanese government's successive interest rate cuts in March and April, the financing costs for Japanese companies have become lower, and companies are increasingly treating money less as money.

They are willing to spend a lot of money on college students who come for interviews, so they will naturally not be stingy when it comes to members of their own company.

Take Industrial Bank as an example, employees have exaggerated business reimbursement every month. And even if it exceeds the limit, there is no need to worry, it is easy to convince the special supervisors.

In a word,

Business entertainment expenses.

"Okay then. I won't be shy."

Since he was trying to make money from the company, Takeshita Masato would not refuse. If he saved a little now, he would be able to make several times the money in the stock market soon.

After three rounds of wine, five flavors of food.

The two people became more familiar with each other and started to talk more.

At this time, the slightly drunk Haneda Ichiro slapped his thigh and said, "Takeshita, tell me how much money you want to borrow. With the reputation of our Waseda School of Economics, I can authorize you to borrow 1 million."

During Japan's bubble era, Japanese banks begged ordinary people for loans, and were willing to lend money to them even if the person had nothing.

But that would have to wait until after 1987.

At that time, enterprises chose to raise funds through market channels, and banks could not lend out their deposits. However, banks had annual business targets, so they would lend recklessly regardless of the risks.

Japan's financial liberalization reforms have just begun, and companies have just begun to try to seek financing directly in the market without going through banks, so the pressure on banks to lend is not that great.

The fact that Masato Takeshita was able to obtain a loan of 1 million yen simply by being a student at Waseda University was definitely a special favor from Ichiro Haneda.

"Thank you, Haneda-senpai, but it may not be enough."

"not enough?"

"Yes, it's not enough."

Masato Takeshita's answer was very affirmative.

(End of this chapter)