Previous >>282772052Chapter 37Shima went with Chunhua to see her Taijiquan teacher but despite seeing her skill and learning she was descended rom a great master, he decided it would be better to deal with Liu in another way. To that end, he went to see Mito from TAC Consulting who got in contact with an ex-member of China's intelligence services named Hong. With the information from the cellphone that Chunhua had grabbed from one of Liu's men, Hong was able to spread chaos in the underworld which eventually worked its way back to Liu resulting in his death, the news of which snapped Chunhua's father out of his stupor.After the new year, Shima was back in Japan and met up with Hirase and Nami only to be met with a huge surprise: Nami was pregnant. What's more, she'd brought her lover with her to Japan who turned out to be an African-American man named Frederick Thomson who was in the process of getting divorced from his wife. Shima got over his initial shock, though, and eventually wished for nothing but his daughter's happiness.But the most important thing that had happened on the business end was Shima and Mangame striking a cooperative business deal with Sun Rui and his company Chunfa, one of China's largest manufacturers. Sun had studied in Japan and became enamored by the business philosophy of Chairman Yoshihara so he was happy to work with Hatsushiba and when in Japan for the signing of the contract, he and Shima managed to connect by eating at an old restaurant that Sun worked at during his college days.
I was actually mixing my chapters up a bit. This one is a "kids these days are lazy" one, not about Rui.
I think chapters like this do a good job of really showing why Japan has had trouble recovering from the bubble bursting. Basically the older generation sees the problem and will do everything but admit their own faults and just think it's lazy kids who actually expect things like time off and personal fulfillment instead of slavishly devoting every waking moment to work like they had to.
That's it for today. Next time, it's back to China where we learn that Sun Rui really hates sea turtles.
>>283007182Thanks, OP.So the currents events in the TL are early 2000s right? When did those chapters originally drop? Wonder how many years of hindsight Hirokane had when writing these forward thinking discussions.
>>283007798Late 2002/early 2003. I don't know how much of a buffer he had, if any, but the series more or less taxes place in real time. So whatever the general timeframe is in the series is when the chapters were beig published IRL. It's like certain newspaper comic strips in that regard.
>>283006953Perhaps it's ironic that China's having to deal with its own "lazy youth" nowadays.Interesting and pertinent chapter despite (or because of?) Hirokane's blind spots.
>>283006667Dudes what is this manga about? Salarymen ojiisans talk and talk and talk it seems
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>>283006788> Mangame doing the ‘kakaka’ laughdeath flag
>>283008062homos
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>>283007182Thanks, OP.
>>283007182you're the reason I check /a/ so frequently OP
>>282982681Bessie Smith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nIKMnJ3OK0>>283006676Fats Domino - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnjd-m6q-AIthe first suggestions were all towards Beauty and the Beasts' "Be Our Guest">>283006916The sun can't ever set on sunrise land...>>283007049As in all things, the cycle remains eternal: those who cast their eyes away from the Middle Kingdom will, one day, return to its incandescent, jade-like splendor>>283007182thanks, OP>>283008062extramarital affairs, international commerce, various marketing industries, long-term economic planning, and the cultural experiences of the japanese businessman
>>283008204It should be a 4chan banner.
>>283006953Japan never recovered from their bubble bursting only because America destroyed Japan's semiconductor industry>At the insistence of the United States, in 1986 Japan agreed to limit its exports of semiconductors, mainly the "dynamic random access memory" (DRAM) chips, to America. These chips are used in high- tech consumer electronics equipment like computers and video cassette recorders. The agreement expires this July 1, and the Bush Administration thus soon must decide whether to renew it. Doing so would make Washington a hypocrite in its free trade efforts to open markets abroad for American products. The 1986 chip agreement, after all, restricts trade, ostensibly to help some American segments of the semiconductor industry. The agreement in fact has harmed American computer manufacturers, who have found themselves paying higher prices for computer chips. This makes American computer manufacturers less competitive and drives up computer prices for all Americans.>Bowing to Pressure. In the 1980s, the American semiconductor industry complained that it faced unfair competition from Japanese firms and needed temporary relief from Japanese imports to re-tool American production facilities. The U.S. government responded by threatening trade retaliation if Tokyo did not raise the price of Japanese, low-end DRAM chips in the American and foreign markets. Tokyo bowed to this pressure in August 1986. Japan also agreed to try to guarantee the U.S. a specific share of the Japanese market in these products.https://www.heritage.org/asia/report/the-us-japan-semiconductor-agreement-keeping-the-managedtrade-agenda
>>283010465Japan was getting a lot of pushback from their biggest trade partner in the 1980s and early '90s and basically agreed to a lot of things on the idea that it would placate the Americans and make them look good. The real problem came about because the Ministry of Finance was run by alternating groups from the bureaucracy and the Bank of Japan who were basically rivals, had opposite ideas about what to do with interest rates (since they used low interest rates to boost the economy after the Plaza Accords) and by the time the bubble burst they just kind of flailed and continued propping up banks and businesses that had no reason staying up. When they did change it was to basically just go into austerity on one hand and quantiative easing on the other but without appropriate wage increases indeed, people were now making less money and having to still work long hours which means nobody has the money or time to start a family which means birthrates plummet which makes the economic situation worse but nobody bothers to address the real issue (stagnant/decreasing wages + too much wage slavery) because that might cause CEOs and businesses to make slightly less money.Japan has pretty much been a harbinger for how the rest of the developed world would go economically. Post-war was a unique situation around the globe where things were so screwed up that the wealthy classes had no choice but to hold their noses and contribute to the wellbeing of the populace allowing the middle class to grow and leading to economic prosperity. But come the '80s/'90s they had enough of that and began moving towards withdrawing from what should really be their societal obligations. That's how it always looks to me as a lay person and not any kind of economic historian anyway.
>>283008062japanese mad men, according to some anons.
>>283006916The weakness of the old guard has always been nostalgia. The problem is that yesterday's successes are what creates today's problems, and new problems require new solutions.Honestly, that the closest thing to a youthful leader in this era was so decrepit highlights why senior leadership is so behind the curve.
>>283006916>billions must work day and night to sustain my executive lifestyle with fancy dinners and loose womenshima the heartless
>>283007182thanks op.
>>283007182Thank you for posting.
>>283012235That's one way to put it.
>>283014868>Its joewari da>China is the future. NIPPON has fallen>Billions must labor
>>283018472kek
>>283008062you missed the protagonist ordering a hit on the chinese mafia boss that crossed him, or his new secretary training magic kung fu and curing her dad's dementia with christmas costumes.
