Chapter 118 The gaze from Sony

Shinagawa Ward, Sony Headquarters Building.

After thirty-three years of development since its establishment, Sony has grown into a multinational company listed in the United States.

Although it is still far from the giant of later generations, Sony's name now has a tendency to become synonymous with Japan's "technology and innovation" companies.

Hiroshi Ogawa hurriedly walked into the Sony Building. When greeted by his colleagues, he nodded perfunctorily and went straight to the internal research institute.

Arriving at his department floor, Hiroshi Ogawa first found Heitaro Nakajima, the director of his technical department.

"Nakajima-san, have you ever heard of Flashman?" Hiroshi Ogawa couldn't wait to get to the point when he met him.

"Flashman?" Heitaro Nakajima, whose hair was in his 50s, asked in confusion.

"Is this the code name of a new product within Sony?"

Hiroshi Ogawa, who was in a hurry, suddenly felt a bit dumbfounded. To be honest, if he hadn't read the magazine, he would have had similar thoughts when he heard the name.

"This is a shameless imitation, Hayakawa, go and find out the details of this Shirakawa Electric Company immediately. How dare you ignore the existence of Sony.

But before he could say anything, he stopped again. Norio Ohga was still hospitalized due to a car accident recently...

"According to the information found, this Shirakawa Maple-san is still a college student, from a prestigious private school, Meiji University."

These are all matters within Heitaro Nakajima's authority. As for more actions, it's fine even though he did it in his capacity.

He looked at Shirakawa Kaede's information again, Meiji University...

At this moment, Kozo Osone is enjoying the sun, beautiful women, and bikinis on the beach in Hawaii.

Warn them to stop all production and sales activities of flashman within three days, and publicly apologize and compensate for their infringement in the media.

If you think about it this way, the other party can still be regarded as your junior disciple.

At Christmas time, he also gave his whole family a special treatment of fully reimbursing themselves for a vacation in Hawaii, USA.

Then what do we need technical researchers like them to do? Just go find the naming master.

If we just compare whose name is more powerful, whoever has the most powerful name will win.

We don't have a mobile phone now, so we don't know how many twists and turns it will take to contact Osone Kozo.

In addition, Ogawa-san, as far as you know, how is this so-called flashman performing in the market?"

Kozo Osone is the head of the tape stereo recorder division, so it would be better to leave these matters to him.

In addition, from now on, we will collect more detailed information about this Shirakawa Electric.

As a technical researcher, he only needed to look at the appearance to know that this machine, which was similar to the Walkman, was taking a low-end route.

After all, a name like flashman is indeed very Sony’s naming style. Pressman, watchman… are all Sony products.

Hayakawa's expression was a little strange at the moment. This was the first time he had seen such a strange club.

Someone from the research institute hurriedly went out to check the details of Shirakawa Electric, while Heitaro Nakajima had already begun discussing the market performance of flashman with Hiroshi Ogawa.

Soon, Hayakawa, who had just left, had returned to the research room with a stack of information.

Nakajima Heitaro paused, then he remembered.

"Nakajima-san, please take a look. This Shirakawa Electric is somewhat special."

The reason why he was angry was because of Shirakawa Electric's shameless imitation. He was not worried about the market performance at all, nor did he think flashman would pose a threat to walkman.

And Sony's senior management didn't treat him badly, except for various bonuses.

With this in mind, Heitaro Nakajima prepared to submit this information to Norio Ohga, the current vice president of Sony.

At this moment, Hiroshi Ogawa still doesn’t know that consumers outside have indeed made a wise choice, and Flashman has already begun to usher in the first wave of panic buying.

Because he himself graduated from Meiji Vocational School, and later applied for Tokyo Institute of Technology, and finally came to Sony.

He knew it well, and when he saw the title of the magazine in his hand, he even burst into laughter.

Heitaro Nakajima calculated the time and found that most companies had already gone on holiday as the new year was approaching, and the same was true for Sony.

"Nakajima-san, look." Hiroshi Ogawa said and directly handed the magazine in his hand to Heitaro Nakajima.

Then, while Hiroshi Ogawa waited quietly, Heitaro Nakajima's expression became colder and colder as he flipped through the magazine, and in the end, only anger remained.

If the other party has objections, immediately submit the collected information to the Legal Department and contact Osone-san."

Nakajima Heitaro laughed again and shook his head. He handed the information in his hand to Hayakawa, "Report to Mr. Osone Kozo."

Are today's college students so fearless? They actually ignore the existence of Sony. They really have the spirit of a Showa man.

"Oh~ tell me in detail" Heitaro Nakajima asked as he took the information and read it.

After taking the magazine and looking at the cover, Heitaro Nakajima's expression became serious.

Forget it, Nakajima Heitaro shook his head and returned the information to Hayakawa.

And it doesn't seem like a wise choice to disturb your boss when he is on vacation. Even if you are your boss in name only.

Why?

Compared to Sony, Shirakawa Electric is really ignored.

"Transfer these information to the Legal Department and ask them to send a lawyer's letter to Shirakawa Electric.

However, Hayakawa did not move. He looked at Nakajima Heitaro and said hesitantly, "Nakajima-san, Osone-san has gone on vacation."

After listening to Hayakawa's introduction, not only Hiroshi Ogawa but even Heitaro Nakajima laughed.

"I don't know the specifics, but the headphones from Shirakawa Electric are quite creative. As for this flashman..."

"Hai" Hayakawa took the order and went out.

"But the most interesting thing is the president of this club, San" Hayakawa used the word "interesting".

Walkman’s rival? Do you think “flash” can defeat the opponent faster than “walk”?

Naive ~

However, his views are in line with Heitaro Nakajima’s judgment on flashman.

A disdainful smile appeared on Hiroshi Ogawa's face, "The design is crude and crude and cannot be compared with our Walkman. I believe consumers will make a wise choice."

With this mentality, Heitaro Nakajima looked at flashman in magazines, and it was like looking at a clown.

Especially for the so-called flashman, you must carefully analyze the other party's infringement behavior.

However, this piece of information about Shirakawa Kaede from Meiji University caught the attention of Heitaro Nakajima.

Because he led the development of Walkman, Kozo Osone really made great contributions to Sony this year.

"Shirakawa Electric is a company that was just established this year. Its size...is negligible."

But he doesn't want to do unnecessary things. If he does more, he will make more mistakes, and if he does less, he will make fewer mistakes.

Sony's internal affairs are not as peaceful as they appear on the surface. There are many factions among various departments, so it is better to play it safe.

But having said that, I haven’t visited Meiji in many years.

Today's junior students seem to be more courageous than those who joined the Red Army in the past.

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I'll work harder and stick to the third update until the end of this week. Take it slow~

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