However, for the public, there are more practical reasons why they care about the new era name, in addition to curiosity.

On the television screen, Chief Cabinet Secretary Keizo Obuchi held up a cardboard with the new era name written on it, and officially announced that the name of the new locust after his accession to the throne was "Heisei".

The "Heisei" of Heisei is selected from the "Inner Flat and Outer Cheng" in the "Historical Records of the Five Emperors", and the "Flat Tiancheng" in the "Book of Books: Da Yu Mo", which means "peace can be made inside and outside the world".

The name of the era has always been chosen from the Chinese classics, and this is the case with Showa, and the same is true for the Taisho and Meiji that went before.

This time, when the new locust ascended the throne and decided on the new era name, the official also planned to select from the classics of the book, but in the end, the era name of "Heisei" was still selected from the Chinese classics.

On TV, there is a detailed explanation of the origin of the new era name Heisei, and when Iwahashi Shinichi looks at this, he has a little bit of a feeling of being a bystander, such as "it is so" and "witnessing history".

Although I didn't know much about this book in my previous life, after all, it was a neighbor next door, and I always knew the year name. After all, when it comes to Heisei, it is followed by the word "abandoned house".

Whether it's Heisei or an abandoned house, it doesn't matter for the time being.

Whether the locusts die or not die only lasts for 7749 days, but the change of the era name has a real impact on every corner of the society.

From tomorrow, January 8, after the official change, newspapers and magazines, television media, computer clocks, calendars, ...... Wherever you can think of an era name, the word "Showa" will be replaced by "Heisei".

The record company and Shinichi Iwahashi's production company are the same, and all kinds of things with "Showa" that they used before have to be replaced one after another.

In addition, for those who are accustomed to using era names to narrate, they should also learn to change their words in the future.

"After 0:00 tonight, it's the first year of Heisei. ”

Watanabe Manyumi wrote down the two kanji used in the era name on a notepad, and casually said to Iwahashi Shinichi: "It's still the year of the Common Era, which is easy to remember and easy to use." ”

"Of course. Shinichi Iwahashi smiled and agreed.

After watching the live broadcast of the year name announcement, the curiosity of the people present was satisfied, so as if the pause button pressed was changed to the start button again, they went to do their own things again, and lost interest in the next news on TV again.

Shinichi Iwahashi and Manyumi Watanabe didn't actually stay here to watch TV, and after they were bombarded with phone calls in the morning, in the afternoon, the two sat together to exchange information they had received, and then discussed the adjustments to be made next.

This afternoon, ZARD was taken by the staff to Kansai TV to record a music program. Recorded this afternoon, it airs next week. There is no way but to stop the live program, but the progress of the recording of the recorded program is not affected.

After recording the show in the afternoon and performing at LIVEHOUSE in the evening, the band's last day in Osaka was still full of schedules.

On this last day of the performance, Iwahashi Shinichi was busy with business, so he didn't have time or plan to follow along.

However, after watching it for two days in a row, he already had a rough idea of the band's performance and the adjustment of Sachiko's stage style, but during the performance, suddenly communicating with Sachiko Kamaike may affect her performance.

When I get back to Tokyo, I'll talk to her alone.

While the two were talking, Shinichi Iwahashi's pager rang.

Today, the pager has not stopped since the morning, and Iwahashi Shinichi is used to it, and he said to Watanabe Manyumi and got up to find the phone.

The call came from the head of the Tokyo Music Industry Co., Ltd., which has been working with the production company for a long time. I made a special call to discuss a new order with Shinichi Iwahashi.

As soon as the era name was changed, the Tokyo Music Industry Company also wanted to take advantage of the popularity of the replacement of the old and new era names, and hurriedly selected representative idol ballads and prepared to sell them under the banners of "Showa Idol Special Collection" and "Showa Atmosphere Ballad Special Collection".

It's a good thing to have an order, and mosquito legs are also meat, and Iwahashi Shinichi is of course full of promises. I told him goodbye and went to visit the Tokyo Music Industry Company in person.

After a few words of business, Numata opened the conversation box and started chatting with him again.

When Numata met Shinichi Iwahashi, Shinichi Iwahashi was still Shinichi Mori's little follower. When the production company was founded, its source of livelihood was the orders it received from Numata. With this relationship, the two can be regarded as having a bit of friendship.

Although almost everything in life is the usual except for the replacement of "Showa" with "Heisei", the change of the era name is undoubtedly a big event.

If you don't care about national affairs, you are naturally completely indifferent. But there are also people who, although they don't have any superfluous thoughts about "change", just can't wait to talk about this new event as a topic of conversation.

That kind of mentality is about similar to wanting to point out the country after three cups of stomach - the mouth is happy.

Numata is clearly the latter type of person.

Iwahashi Shinichi politely dealt with him, and as he spoke, the pager that was still in his hand rang again. He glanced at it, it was an unfamiliar number, but the paging code was not the most familiar "quick callback".

He continued to chat with Numata as he checked the list of paging codes placed next to the phone. After looking for a while, I finally found the answer, which is a little awkward "see you next time".

See you next time?

Iwahashi pondered for a moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration gave Numata a call and came in.

On the phone, Numata teased him that he must have been busy enough today, and finally let him go. After hanging up Numata's phone, Shinichi Iwahashi called back the awkward pager just now.

The phone called, and when it was connected, a female voice on the other side told him, "This is a pay phone." ”

A public phone?

Was it someone passing by who picked it up? How could there be someone who didn't wait there after making a pager at the phone booth.

Too careless, right?

Shinichi Iwahashi was quite surprised by this answer. While slandering the caller as unreliable, he muttered in his heart, could it be that the guess just now was wrong?

I was about to apologize to the other side and hang up, but I haven't opened my mouth yet, I don't know why, I feel that something is wrong in my heart. When I hesitated, I suddenly heard laughter on the other end of the phone.

At first, it seemed to be patient, and then it simply laughed generously.

"Shen Yijun. On the phone, Akina Nakamori finally reported herself.

In the face of such a mischievous Taopu Star, Iwahashi Shinichi could only laugh.

But then again, Akina Nakamori's ability to change her voice is quite powerful, could it be that in the talent skill points, the column belonging to the voice actor has also been clicked a few more?

Iwahashi Shin'ichi thought in his heart, and before he could speak, he first heard Akina Nakamori ask him, "Shin'ichi-kun must be very busy today, right?"

"Well, I haven't stopped since I got up, and I've been answering the phone just now. Shinichi Iwahashi said to her, "I just received a 'see you next time' pager, and I guessed in my heart that maybe it was you." ”

Akina Nakamori smiled, "Omoto-san left while talking on the phone in the morning. I think that Shen Yijun must be busier than Oben-san. ”

"I guess so. Shinichi Iwahashi felt the same way, and asked her again, "What about Akinawa-san?"

"Contrary to Shen Yijun, who was overbusy, he got a sudden day off today. Akina Nakamori told him.

Iwahashi Shinichi joked, "I'm so envious." ”

"If I can give you half of it, I will give you half of it. Staying in the small space of the phone booth, Akina Nakamori said stupid things unscrupulously.

...... A person who has a sweetheart must be qualified to say stupid things.

She looked at her face in the small mirror embedded in the telephone.

"If I can receive it, I will really ask you for half of it. Iwahashi learned her sentences.

On the phone, Akina Nakamori laughed at his words.

Shinichi Iwahashi said to her, "However, I was really tricked by you just now." "In order to play a prank, I also deliberately showed off my voice actor skills, which are naughty enough.

Akina Nakamori laughed twice, "Pretend that someone passing by is playing tricks on you." ...... It's really a payphone, though. ”

And the reason why she wanted to pretend to be a passerby was when the phone was dialed out and she stayed in the phone booth waiting for the call, and suddenly it occurred to her that she couldn't be sure if the next call was made to her.

Between receiving a call from Shinichi Iwahashi and perhaps receiving a call from someone else, the idea of Akina Nakamori's prank pops up again, and she decides to tell the other side that it's a pay phone whenever the phone rings.

If it's a stranger's voice, that's the right answer.

If it's Shinichi Iwahashi's voice, it's a deliberate joke with him.

"Really?"

Shinichi Iwahashi imagined Akina Mori standing in a phone booth on the corner of the street on the phone. On the crowded street, will anyone find that she is the one who is holding a receiver and making a phone call inside?

"I saw a phone booth on the street and suddenly wanted to use it to call you. Akina Nakamori said.

She spoke in a frank tone and said something a little childish. When Iwahashi Shinichi heard her say this, he imagined Akina Nakamori standing in the phone booth, and suddenly felt a certain warmth and realized the temperature of her person.

"Now, after the call, I'm going back. She deliberately didn't say anything like "Shen Yijun is so busy but still calls you".

"Where?" Iwahashi Shinichi asked her.

Akina Nakamori told him, "When you go home, you have to do a big cleaning while you're on vacation." ”

Putting down the phone, Akina Nakamori was satisfied. She looked at the small mirror embedded in the telephone, and for a moment her face was reflected in the mirror, as if it overlapped with the girl she had just seen on the phone.

She threw 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 the taxi to pick her up.

......

The official change of the yuan was at 0:00 on the 8th, but the evening newspaper of that day had already published the year name of "Heisei" and announced it to the world.

And by the early morning of the 8th, the newspaper sent to the hotel, the time column, had been replaced with "Heisei first year".

Turn on the TV, and the TV set also has a big report on the theme of "Heisei First Year".

The new era name is replaced, whether it is a TV show, or a newspaper, all of them are quite optimistic looking forward to a new era.

Of course, what they are looking forward to is a new era that will continue the prosperity of the present moment and be better than the present.

As a reflection of this, when Shinichi Iwahashi went to breakfast, he listened to a report from the accompanying staff that yesterday's radio station, DREAMS COME TRUE's "Future Prospect II" had a surge in on-demand views.

"According to the feedback, a considerable number of the comments on the song mentioned the phrase 'no matter how many years it takes, you can keep the current mood unchanged'. "The staff is doing a detailed debriefing.

Watanabe Manyumi listened to the staff's report and remembered what her mother had mentioned about the reason why the song "Future Prospect II" was so popular.

"It doesn't change for many years."

The core of this song, at the moment of the transition of the times, also carries the meaning of soothing people's hearts and cheering.

Before that, few listeners who watched the song on demand made such associations with the song. However, at the same time as the era name is changing, the on-demand messages with such associations have increased significantly, which also reflects the truth of the public's heart.

Being able to associate this song in such a short period of time proves that "Future Forecast Map 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, there is indifference to the death of the locust, the accession of the new locust, and the transformation of the symbol.

On the other hand, there is something floating in the depths of my heart that I may not even be aware of, and I am uneasy about the current bubble era.

To alleviate the uneasiness, on the one hand, it is to be more fanatical, and on the other hand, to associate with subtle, seemingly unrelated things.

Thinking of this, Watanabe Manyumi told Shinichi Iwahashi about her mother's words.

Iwahashi listened carefully, and while listening, he admired Misa Watanabe in his heart, "I really deserve to be President Watanabe." ”

Jiang is still old and spicy, and in terms of looking at things, Misa Watanabe may have lost her innovative and enterprising judgment, but these subtle things hidden in the times can't hide from the eyes of this old-timer 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 locust's head.

Television and newspapers alike are providing detailed coverage of yesterday's last-minute rush out of their homes, as well as the response of entertainment venues to the situation.

Today, the national funeral has officially begun, and entertainment venues have also hung signs of closing their doors. At that time, movie theaters, karaoke, disco, amusement parks and other entertainment venues will be suspended.

When news about the state funeral is broadcast on television, newspapers have to take on their responsibilities.

On the 8th, the newspaper carried a large page on the shares of the Okinawa Electric Power Company, which will be on sale tomorrow. As soon as Iwahashi Shin turned to this side, he remembered that Brother Nakamura persuaded him and Miwa-chan to buy it.

I don't know about taking a stake in LIVEHOUSE, how to choose Brother Nakamura.

But before that, in the morning, the staff returned to Tokyo from Osaka, and Shinichi Iwahashi and Manyumi Watanabe, along with four members of ZARD, went to Kyoto at the invitation of Haruko Akamatsu.