Latest website: However, for the public, besides curiosity, there are more practical reasons why they care about the new era name.
In the TV screen, Chief Cabinet Secretary Obuchi Keizo held up a cardboard with the new year's number written on it, and officially announced that the new year's name will be "Heisei" after Shinten Locust takes the throne.
The word "平成" in Pingcheng is selected from "Pingcheng within and outside" in "Historical Records: The Chronicles of the Five Emperors", and "Pingcheng on the earth and heaven" in "Book of Books: Dayu Mo", which means "there can be peace inside and outside the heaven and earth".
Japan's era names have always been selected from Chinese classics, this was the case for Showa, and the same was true for Taisho and Meiji before that.
When Xintian Locust came to the throne and decided on the new year's name this time, the officials also planned to choose from Japanese classics, but in the end, the "Heisei" era name was still selected from Chinese classics.
On TV, the origin of the new era name Heisei was explained in detail. Watching this, Shinichi Iwahashi felt a bit like a bystander, like "Sure enough, I witnessed history like this."
Although I didn’t know much about Japan in my previous life, it was a neighboring country after all, so I still knew the era name. After all, when it comes to Heisei, the word “abandoned house” follows.
Whether it's Heisei or an abandoned house, it doesn't matter for now.
Whether the locust dies or not, the impact on life only lasts for 7749 days, but the change of the era name actually affects every corner of Japanese society.
From tomorrow, January 8th, after the official change of the era, newspapers and magazines, TV media, computer clocks, calendars... wherever you can think of where the era name appears, the word "Showa" will be replaced by "Heisei".
It's the same with the record company and Shinichi Iwahashi's production company. All the things with "Showa" that were used before are being replaced one after another.
In addition, those who are accustomed to using era names to narrate narratives must learn to change their narration in the future.
"After midnight tonight, it will be the first year of Heisei."
Watanabe Manyumi wrote down the two Chinese characters used in the era name on her notepad, and casually said to Shinichi Iwahashi: "The AD calendar is easier to remember and use."
"Of course." Iwahashi Shinichi agreed with a smile.
After watching the live broadcast of the announcement of the year, the curiosity of the people present was satisfied, so as if the pause button was changed to the start button, everyone went to do their own things, and lost interest in the news on TV again.
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In fact, Iwahashi Shinichi and Watanabe Manyumi didn't stay here specifically to watch TV. After being bombarded with phone calls in the morning, the two sat together in the afternoon, exchanged the intelligence they had received, and discussed what to do next.
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This afternoon, zard was taken by the staff to Kansai TV to record a music program. The recording was recorded this afternoon and will be broadcast next week. The live program has no choice but to stop, but the recording progress of the recorded program will not be affected.
After recording the program in the afternoon, and a livehouse performance in the evening, the band's last day in Osaka still had a full schedule.
On this last day of the performance, Shinichi Iwahashi was busy with work, so he had no time and no plans to go see it again.
However, after watching it for two days in a row, he already had a rough idea of the band's performance and the adjustments to Kamaike Sachiko's stage style. However, if he suddenly communicated these to Kamaike Sachiko during the performance, it might affect her performance.
Wait until you return to Tokyo and talk to her alone.
While the two were talking, Iwahashi Shinichi's pager rang.
Today, the pager has not stopped since morning. Iwahashi Shinichi was used to it, so he told Watanabe Wan Yumi and got up to find the phone.
The call came from Director Numata of Tokyo Music Industry Co., Ltd., who we have been cooperating with at the production company. I called specifically to discuss a new order with Shinichi Iwahashi.
As soon as the era name was changed, the Tokyo Music Industry Corporation also wanted to ride on the enthusiasm of the change of era names. They hastily selected representative idol songs and prepared them as "Special Collection of Showa Idols" and "Special Collection of Showa Atmosphere Ballads".
Banner sales.
It's a good thing to have an order, and mosquito legs are also meat. Of course, Shinichi Iwahashi agreed. He also agreed to visit the Tokyo Music Industry Club in person.
After a few words of serious business, Numata started chatting with him again.
When Numata met Shinichi Iwahashi, Shinichi Iwahashi was still Shinichi Mori's little follower. When the production company was first established, the source of its livelihood was the orders it received from Numata. With this relationship, the two of them can be considered to have some friendship.
Although everything in life is almost as normal except for replacing "Showa" with "Heisei", the change of era name is undoubtedly a major event.
If they don't care about national affairs, they will naturally be completely indifferent. But there is also a kind of people who, although they have no extra thoughts about "change", they just can't wait to make this new and important matter a topic of conversation and talk about it with everyone.
That kind of mentality is similar to wanting to point out the country and have fun after drinking three cups.
Numata is obviously the latter type of person.
Shinichi Iwahashi dealt with him politely. As he was talking, the pager still in his hand rang again. He glanced at it and saw that it was an unfamiliar number, but the paging code was not the most familiar "quick call back".
While he continued chatting with Numata, he checked the paging code list placed next to the phone. After searching for a while, he finally found the answer, which was a somewhat awkward "See you next time."
See you next time?
Iwahashi Shinichi thought about it for a moment, and suddenly an idea flashed through him, and he told Numata that another call came in.
On the phone, Numata teased him that he must be very busy today, so he finally let him go. After hanging up Numata, Iwahashi Shinichi called back the awkward pager just now.
He called and when the call was connected, a deep female voice on the other side told him, "This is a public phone."
Public phone?
Was it picked up by someone passing by? How could anyone not wait there after calling a pager at a phone booth?
Isn't that too careless?
Iwahashi Shinichi was quite surprised when faced with this answer. While he was complaining that the caller was unreliable, he was muttering in his heart, could it be that his guess just now was wrong?
I was about to apologize and hang up, but before I spoke, I didn't know why, but I felt something was wrong. While I was hesitating, I suddenly heard laughter on the other end of the phone.
At first he seemed to be patient, and then he just laughed openly.
"Shinichi-kun." On the phone, Nakamori Akina finally announced her home address.
Facing such a prankster, Shinichi Iwahashi could only laugh.
But having said that, Nakamori Akina's ability to change her voice is quite impressive. Could it be that in the talent skill points, the voice actor column has been clicked a few more times?
Iwahashi Shinichi was thinking about it, but before he spoke, he heard Akina Nakamori ask him, "Shinichi-kun must be very busy today, right?"
"Well, I haven't stopped since I got up, and I was also answering the phone just now." Shinichi Iwahashi said to her, "I just received a 'See you next time' page, and I guessed that it might be you."
Nakamori Akina smiled, "Omoto-san left while making phone calls in the morning. I think Shinichi-kun must be busier than Omoto-san."
"That's probably it." Shinichi Iwahashi thought so too, and asked her again, "Where is Akina-san?"
"Contrary to Shinichi-kun who is too busy, I got a sudden day off today." Akina Nakamori told him.
Iwahashi Shinichi joked, "I'm so envious."
"If I can give you half, I will give you half." Staying in the small space of the phone booth, Nakamori Akina said stupid things without restraint.
...A person who has a sweetheart must be qualified to say stupid things.
She looked at her face in the small mirror built into the phone.
"If I can receive it, I will really ask for half of it from you." Iwahashi Shinichi imitated her sentence structure.
On the phone, Akina Nakamori laughed at his words.
Iwahashi Shinichi said to her, "But I was really teased by you just now." In order to play a prank, he even showed off his voice acting skills, which was quite naughty.
Akina Nakamori laughed twice and said, "Pretend that the people passing by are teasing you...but this is really a public phone."
The reason why she wanted to pretend to be someone passing by was because when she dialed out the phone and waited for the call in the phone booth, it suddenly occurred to her that she was not sure whether the next call was for her.
Between the two possibilities of receiving a call back from Shinichi Iwahashi and maybe receiving a call from someone else, Akina Nakamori had the idea of playing a prank again and decided to tell the person on the phone that it was a public phone whenever the phone rang.
If it were a stranger's voice, this would be an appropriate answer.
If it was Iwahashi Shinichi's voice, it was a deliberate joke on him.
"real?"
Iwahashi Shinichi imagined Nakamori Akina standing in a phone booth on the street corner and making a phone call. On the street where people were coming and going, would anyone find that she was the one holding the receiver and making a phone call?
"I saw a phone booth on the street and suddenly wanted to use it to call you," said Akina Nakamori.
Her tone was frank and her words were a little childish. When Iwahashi Shin heard what she said, he imagined Akina Nakamori standing in the phone booth and suddenly felt some kind of warmth and realized the warmth of her person.
"Now, after the call is over, I'm going back." She deliberately didn't say something like "Shen Yijun is so busy but he still called you."
"Where to go?" Iwahashi Shinichi asked her.
Akina Nakamori told him, "Go home and do some general cleaning during your vacation."
Putting down the phone, Nakamori Akina was satisfied. She looked at the small mirror embedded in the phone. For a moment, her face reflected in the mirror seemed to overlap with the girl she just saw talking on the phone.
She put in another coin, called the taxi company, and gave her address.
After putting down the phone, Akina Nakamori walked out of the phone booth and waited for a taxi to pick her up.
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The official change of era was at 0:00 on the 8th, but the evening newspaper of that day had already published the era name of "Heisei", widely announcing it to the world.
And when the newspaper was delivered to the hotel early on the morning of the 8th, the time column had all been replaced by "Heisei 1st Year".
Turning on the TV, there were also reports on the theme of "The First Year of Heisei".
With the replacement of a new era name, TV programs and newspapers are all looking forward to a new era with great optimism.
Of course, what they are looking forward to is a new era that can continue the current prosperity and be better than the present.
As a reflection of this, when Shinichi Iwahashi went to have breakfast, he heard from the staff accompanying him that the on-demand rate of DreamseTrue's "Future Vision II" surged yesterday on the radio station.
"According to the feedback information, a considerable number of the comments on the request for this song mentioned the phrase 'no matter how many years it takes, I can maintain the same mood now'." The staff made a detailed report.
Watanabe Manyumi listened to the staff's report and remembered what her mother had mentioned about the reason why the song "Future Vision II" is so popular.
"It won't change no matter how many years it takes."
The core of this song, in this changing era, also has the meaning of comforting and encouraging people.
Before this, few listeners who requested this song made such an association with the song. However, with the change of the year number, the number of on-demand messages with such association increased significantly, which to some extent reflects the inner truth of the public.
Being able to think of this song in such a short period of time proves on the one hand that "Future Vision II" is indeed hot and well-known now, and on the other hand, it also proves that Misa Watanabe's perspective on things is accurate.
On the one hand, they are indifferent to the death of the locust, the new locust taking the throne, and the change of symbols.
On the other side, there is an uneasiness about the current bubble era floating deep in my heart that maybe even I am not aware of.
To relieve anxiety, on the one hand, you need to be more fanatical, and on the other hand, you need to think about small, seemingly irrelevant things.
Thinking of this, Watanabe Manyumi told Iwahashi Shinichi what her mother said.
Iwahashi Shinichi listened carefully. While listening, he admired Misa Watanabe in his heart, "You are indeed President Watanabe."
He is still too old. In terms of his perspective on things, Watanabe Misa may have lost his innovative and enterprising judgment. However, these subtle things hidden in the times cannot be hidden from the eyes of this veteran in the entertainment industry.
The 8th is not only the first day of the "First Year of Heisei", but also the first day of the seventh day of the Ten Locust Period.
Both TV and newspapers gave detailed reports on yesterday's people rushing out of their homes at the last possible moment, as well as how entertainment venues responded to this situation.
Today, the national mourning officially begins, and entertainment venues have also put up signs saying they are closed to customers. At that time, cinemas, karaoke, disco, amusement parks and other entertainment venues will be closed.
News related to national mourning must be broadcast on TV, and newspapers must shoulder their responsibilities.
The newspaper on the 8th reported a large page about the stock of Okinawa Electric Power Company that would go on sale tomorrow. As soon as Iwahashi Shin turned to this page, he remembered Brother Nakamura and persuaded him and Miwa-chan to buy it.
I don’t know how Nakamura-san should choose to invest in livehouse.
But before that, in the morning, the staff returned to Tokyo from Osaka. Shinichi Iwahashi, Wanyumi Watanabe, and the four members of zard went to Kyoto at the invitation of Haruko Akamatsu.
