When Shirakawa Tomoko hung up the phone, her hands were shaking a little.
He turned out to be leesin!
The "Harry Potter" trend is not only popular in Europe and the United States, but also spreads to Southeast Asia. In Japan, which has a developed literary and art industry, the sales volume of the Japanese version of "Harry Potter" ranks among the top ten of the year.
Even because of "Harry Potter", Japanese cartoonists and novelists began to follow suit and create magical works, leading the creative trend.
And this author, who is known as the father of Harry Potter, can be said to be a world-class phenomenal writer, but he actually appeared in front of me like this?
At the same time, Shirakawa Tomoko turned around and looked at Yamamoto Sagi, who was still kneeling there under the sunset.
At this moment, she clearly knew what the consequences of waiting for Yamamoto Sagi would be.
What was originally thought to be a very difficult case actually took a dramatic turn!
After understanding the cause and effect, Tomoko Shirakawa is absolutely sure that the father of Harry Potter can receive huge compensation!
And she herself will become famous in the industry for filing a lawsuit for the father of Harry Potter!
When she thought of this, Shirakawa Tomoko became excited, and she excitedly drove to the hotel where Li Qing was staying.
It was just Li Qing's reaction that made Tomoko Shirakawa a little dumbfounded: "Not suing?"
"Well, it's not a big deal."
Li Qing's reaction was a little cold. It was obvious that he didn't want to get himself involved in some unpredictable trouble because of this incident.
Since the other party has deeply realized their mistake and apologized for it, as long as the other party destroys all the video tapes taken, the whole world will not know that Li Qing's bodyguards beat people in Japan.
Although the other party's apology was sincere, if the news was revealed, Li Qing knew without even thinking that many people in Japan would definitely deteriorate his image.
They even distort the facts and fabricate fake news.
The ugliness of human nature is difficult for normal people to imagine.
They are motivated by profit, even if they are criticized by thousands of people.
"All right."
Shirakawa Tomoko felt a little pity, but in the end she respected Li Qing's choice. At the same time, he took out a copy of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" from his backpack. This was a new book she bought specially when she just passed by the bookstore. "Mr. Li,
Can you sign here? I'm a big fan of yours."
Seeing Shirakawa Tomoko's excited look, Li Qing smiled and said, "Of course."
After Tomoko Shirakawa happily received the signed book, Li Qing thought for a while and then asked: "Miss Shirakawa, do you like music?"
"Ah? I like it!"
Tomoko Shirakawa was stunned for a moment and said quickly: "Your "World War II Rhapsody" is one of my favorite piano pieces."
"What about songs? Besides Japan, what kind of songs do you most like to listen to abroad?" Li Qing asked again.
"Abroad...the United States?"
Tomoko Shirakawa said: "I like an American singer who is very popular recently. Her name is Taylor Macefield. Many people in our office are her fans."
Li Qing smiled and said, "What's your favorite song of hers?"
""tik-tk"!"
Tomoko Shirakawa smiled: "Now this song has become popular all over the world. In Japan, many people will be exposed to this song when they are learning English. This song has been on the top of the US Billboard singles list for nine consecutive weeks.
It’s very popular.”
Li Qing groped his chin and thought again.
It seems that the song I specially wrote has a good effect...
I just don’t know if I sang it myself, would the effect be as perfect as Taylor’s?
At this time, after handling various matters, Shirakawa Tomoko asked again: "Mr. Li, if you are sure not to sue TBS Relaxation Club, then I will go back to hand over the work. Of course, you can call me at any time and I will
We will be fully responsible for all your legal and security issues in Japan."
"Okay." Li Qing nodded.
After Shirakawa Tomoko left, Pei Sitao said: "Boss, the president of TBS TV station is waiting in the hotel lobby."
"tbs?"
Li Qing frowned and immediately said, "It's not convenient to talk outside, so you ask them to come up."
After a while, a man in a suit and leather shoes, about fifty or sixty years old, and four or five middle-aged men and women, stood respectfully in front of Li Qing, and then said in strangely pronounced English: "Dear writer Li Qing, I am
The president of TBS Relaxation Club, Fujiwara Sakutaro, they are my subordinates. We learned about the shooting accident that happened in Naha City at noon, and flew here from Tokyo to apologize to you."
Li Qing looked at the people behind Fujiwara. Yamamoto Sagi was standing there with his head lowered, not daring to take a breath. Sensing Li Qing's gaze, Yamamoto Sagi quickly responded with a flattering look.
Li Qing snorted and said, "Is there anything else?"
Fujiwara felt something in his heart. He smiled bitterly and said, "Mr. Li, I would like to know your conditions?"
"What conditions?" Li Qing asked in surprise.
"As long as you don't tell the media what happened today, everything will be fine."
Fujiwara said respectfully: "No matter how harsh the conditions are, we will consider them with the greatest sincerity. I know that Director Yamamoto's attitude is very unfriendly, but he has deeply reflected on himself, and our company has immediately revoked it."
For all his positions, as long as you are willing, we will blacklist Director Yamamoto in the industry, and he will lose all employment opportunities..."
When Fujiwara was describing all this, Yamamoto Sagi's body began to tremble slightly, and his eye circles began to turn red.
In the end, he couldn't resist the fear in his heart, and hurriedly stood up, knelt down to Li Qing again, buried his head on the carpet, and said sadly: "Please forgive me!"
Japan is a country with great employment pressure, especially in major cities including Tokyo, where the employment environment is extremely distorted.
Even for highly educated people, there are many unemployed people, and even if they find a job, their salary is not very generous.
Moreover, across Japan, company layoffs are widespread, and employees have a very low sense of security.
The most important thing is that employees' salaries are linked to their length of service and merit. This is Japan's well-known "annual merit system."
Japan's "senior merit system" determines an employee's salary and position promotion based on the employee's length of service and merit in the company.
This system results in the seniority wages and bonuses of older employees being much higher than the basic wages of new employees.
Taking Toyota in 1998 as an example, the annual income of new employees who graduated from college was only 2 million yen, or 110,000 yuan, but the average annual income of all employees was 5.5 million yen.
The wages for new employees in Japan are extremely low in the first few years. Although an annual salary of 110,000 RMB is enough to live a good life in the country, in Japan, due to excessive consumption, such a salary level can only barely maintain daily life.
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Moreover, part of this salary will be deferred until after middle age.
If an employee leaves midway, all the company's length of service and deferred wages will be forfeited.
After a resigned employee moves to a new company, the other company will not recognize your previous working experience, everything must be started from scratch, and wages must be paid according to the minimum standard.
Therefore, it is not worth the gain for employees to change jobs. Most of them will stay in a company unless the company has gone bankrupt.
This is why some media claim that the job-hopping rate of Japanese employees is the lowest in the world.
Except for special circumstances such as company bankruptcy, being laid off under normal circumstances is also a great humiliation for a Japanese employee.
They will be looked down upon by the people around them. Without a letter of introduction or explanation from the original company, it will be difficult for laid-off employees to find their next job.
Yamamoto Sagi's wife is a full-time housewife, and he also has two children who are in elementary school to support. If they are laid off, Tokyo's high mortgage loans and consumption will drag down their entire family.
Japan's social system is already quite complete and social classes have been solidified. It is basically impossible to get rich overnight like in developing countries. Many people can only be ordinary employees throughout their lives.
Even for artists who are envied by others, due to the development of the system, their labor fees are extremely low compared to the domestic entertainment industry.
Take actors as an example. In 208, Japan's first-line actors were generally paid 100,000 yuan per episode when they were filming TV series. However, many Japanese TV series basically only shot about ten episodes.
Short and sweet.
Therefore, Japanese front-line actors spend several months and only get an income of one million yuan. If they want to get other income, they can only sacrifice their rest time, take on commercials, endorse commercials, etc.
This is also the reason why the income of writers and cartoonists exceeds that of Japanese entertainers.
When social classes and systems have been solidified, it is difficult to change the status quo.
Therefore, as long as he is fired, what awaits Yamamoto Sagi will be the suicide of many laid-off people in today's Japanese society.
After all, the Japanese suicide rate shown by survey agencies is no joke.
Li Qing looked at Yamamoto Sagi with pity.
If he were born in China, a variety show director like Yamamoto Saki who can produce a program with the highest ratings in the country, even if he is fired or laid off, will be quickly absorbed by the next TV platform, and because of his rich past
Directors with resumes will also receive more generous treatment than those from their original unit.
But in Japan, such a situation is basically impossible to happen.
The solidification of social classes has greatly reduced the probability of a salty fish turning over, or even basically eliminated it. The rich will become richer and richer, and it will be difficult to go bankrupt. The poor will always be poor, and it will be difficult for a poor family to produce a noble son.
"I forgive you."
Li Qing said: "I hope you can forgive me too."
Fujiwara Sakutaro was stunned for a moment, and the others were thoughtful.
Yamamoto Sagi, who was lying on the ground, suddenly choked up and cried bitterly after a pause.
It was a feeling of suddenly getting a moment of respite in a moment of despair after being choked by fate.
At this time, facing the surprise of Fujiwara and others, Li Qing spoke again. "Mr. Fujiwara, I don't expect any compensation, but maybe we can develop some in-depth cooperation."
"What kind of cooperation?" President Fujiwara asked.
"I have a film and television production company under my name, which produces some good TV series every year, such as "Soldier Assault" which is very popular in China. If there is an opportunity, I hope these TV series can be broadcast on your station." Li Qing
said with a smile.
When Fujiwara heard this, he said with a troubled expression: "This..."
Li Qing asked: "Is it difficult?"
Fujiwara smiled bitterly and explained the reason.
It turns out that at the end of the last century, the large-scale costume TV series "Dragonfly Princess", which became a hit in China, was illegally introduced to Japan's Hyogo Prefecture Television Station for broadcast by the copyright owner.
Prefectures in Japan are equivalent to provincial TV stations in China. At first, "Dragonfly Princess" was only scheduled to be broadcast in the afternoon. However, after it was launched, the ratings were unusually high. It even once crushed the five major private TV stations and became a phenomenon-level TV series.
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This was directly protested by the Japan Relaxation Association.
Later, due to pressure, Hyogo TV arranged the broadcast time of "Dragonfly Princess" to midnight, that is, in the early morning every day.
But even so, the ratings of "Dragonfly Princess" always crushed the ratings of all TV series during that period.
Attention, it is the TV series that crushes all time periods!
It also allowed the Japanese people to see for the first time what a real large-scale costume TV series is.
Compared with the small and crude buildings in ancient Japan, the majesty of ancient Chinese emperors' homes and the majestic and exquisite buildings amazed and attracted the Japanese.
During that period, countless people from Japan traveled to China.
In addition, Japanese people have requested the rebroadcast of "Dragonfly Princess" and the introduction of additional Chinese costume dramas, and the calls are getting louder and louder.
But this was once again blocked by the Broadcasting Association. Not long after, the relevant Japanese departments issued a restriction order. In order to protect the creative environment of domestic culture, they immediately imposed restrictions on the introduction of foreign TV dramas, especially Chinese TV dramas. This was basically achieved
Zero introduction.
This policy directly caused Li Qing's idea of introducing the company's TV series to Japan to come to nothing.
"But apart from the TV series, everything about you, we're going to do a lot of positive publicity."
President Fujiwara showed a comforting smile: "Your works are very well-known in Japan, but people are not too impressed by your name. If you want to enter Japan and develop the entertainment industry, we, TBS Broadcasting Company, will
will become your most loyal partner."
In fact, even Fujiwara Sakutaro did not expect that Li Qing would have the desire to cooperate with TBS TV station.
Who is Li Qing? The author of famous works such as "Harry Potter", "Quest for Qin", and "The Three-Body Problem", and an internationally renowned writer. Such a cultural creator is definitely someone respected by the entire Japanese society. After all,
, Japan is a country that highly worships cultural creators, which can be seen in the income and status of some of its writers and cartoonists.
With such a great writer, the five major private TV stations are definitely trying to co-operate with him. Fujiwara Sakutaro never dared to think about it before, but to his surprise, the other party actually offered to cooperate!
Pie in the sky?
This made Fujiwara Sakutaro very excited. He realized something, and said calmly on the surface: "If you can accept an exclusive interview with TBS TV station, I think it will have a huge impact on the sales of your works in Japan."
improved."
Li Qing fell into deep thought.
When Fujiwara Sakutaro saw this, he suddenly became worried.
At first, he felt that Li Qing didn't seem to know how popular he was in Japan, so he casually mentioned his idea of cooperating with TBS. However, Li Qing's sudden silence made Fujiwara Sakutaro feel confused.