"Mr. Huo, congratulations on your masterpiece "1999", which sold 3.6 million copies in Japan in just two weeks, and we at Kodansha are still continuing to print it, and it is estimated that it will sell 4 million copies in half a month......

Zeng Weigan listened to Nobita Fujiwara muttering on the other side, and quickly translated the other party's words to Huo Yaowen beside him, but when he translated, there was a look of shock on his face.

Zeng Weigan knew Fok Yaowen, and he also knew that Fok Yaowen was a well-known writer in Hong Kong, and a book once published in the United States sold one million copies, but he never expected that it would be able to sell 3.6 million copies in Japan, this number is really terrifying.

3,600,000 copies!

Huo Yaowen was shocked when he heard it, he didn't expect his "1999" to sell so well in Japan, but if you think about it carefully, when Da Liu's "Three-Body Problem" was published and distributed in Japan decades later, it was reprinted more than a dozen times within a week, and in the era of sluggish sales of physical paper books, it was able to sell more than 100,000 copies in a week, which is enough to prove that Japanese people are very fond of this kind of science fiction literature both now and in the future.

But no matter what, the sales of these 3.6 million copies have always made Huo Yaowen a little unbelievable, he doesn't know how many people Japan has now, but he thinks that there are at least 70 or 80 million people, which shows that one out of every twenty or thirty people is enough to buy "1999", or sell it within two weeks, which makes Huo Yaowen always feel too fake.

You must know that even Komatsu Sakyo, who was rated as a master of science fiction in Japan a few years later, wrote "Japan Sinks", which only sold more than 4 million copies, and was called the first best-selling book in Japan after the war.

Although Huo Yaowen thinks that the "1999" he wrote is really good, and the sales in the United States are also very high, more than a year has passed, and it has exceeded two million copies, but the United States is the world's largest science fiction sales country, and the United States publishes more science fiction every year, which has a natural advantage, plus the population of the United States is larger than that of Japan, and it is already very powerful to sell more than two million copies.

But this is good, Japan directly sold 3.6 million copies, and it would be a little unbelievable for anyone, let alone the author himself, Huo Yaowen, himself.

Thinking of this, Huo Yaowen looked at the extremely respectful Fujiwara Nobita and said, "Mr. Fujiwara, are you sure that my work "1999" has sold more than three million copies in Japan?"

After Miura's translation, Fujiwara Nobita immediately stood up, bent down ninety degrees, and said very respectfully: "Mr. Huo, I dare not lie, your works have sold very well in Japan, and have broken the first place in Japanese book sales, and the Asahi Shimbun Daily praised Mr. Huo in the newspaper as the No. 1 science fiction master in contemporary Asia, a world-famous science fiction writer, and the most ...... Chinese science fiction."

Zeng Weigan swallowed his saliva while translating, and the shock in his heart was indescribable. Zeng Weigan studied in Japan a few years ago, not only is he extremely proficient in Japanese, but he also understands Japan's national conditions very well, so he can naturally hear the respect and admiration in Fujiwara Nobita's words, and he is definitely not joking.

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Japan's economy has developed rapidly since the 60s and gradually revived rapidly, but most of today's Japanese still have a dwarf mentality, which is the gene of the Japanese to bully the weak and fear the hard, and it is also the reason why they only worship the strong and bully the weak since ancient times.

After World War II, the United States controlled almost all of Japan's military forces, which also led to Japan's fear and fear of the United States, and at the same time, there was a bit of Stockholm syndrome effect. It is precisely because of this sadistic affection that the Japanese greatly admire those who can break into the American market, or who have great influence in the United States and Europe.

This sentiment did not gradually improve until the Japanese economy exploded and threatened to buy the United States, but a piece of paper called the "Plaza Accord" once again made the Japanese hold their tails and behave.

Kodansha's editor-in-chief, Sajiro Aso, was very aware of the Japanese market and readers' minds, so when he heard that the book "1999" was written by a Chinese at the Hugo Awards, and it sold millions of copies in the United States, he decisively signed the Japanese copyright in Japan.

While translating the book into Japanese, Kodansha's editor-in-chief Sajiro Aso spent great energy and financial resources to promote and publicize "1999" and Huo Yaowen, spending money on articles in many national newspapers in Japan to promote Huo Yaowen as Asia's No. 1 science fiction master, and at the same time, "1999" written by himself created an unprecedented sales miracle in the United States, creating a myth of Asian science fiction sales in the United States!

Not only that, the science fiction master Mr. Huo Yaowen won the Nebula Award founded by the American Science Fiction Association, and the book "1999" became the favorite science fiction masterpiece in the United States in 1969, and was sought after and loved by countless American people......

Anyway, it was a fierce advocacy that aroused the interest of many Japanese people, and after it was published, it broke the throne of Japan's No. 1 science fiction sales in a short period of time.

Among them, strictly speaking, if it were not for Aso Zuojiro's advocacy and promotion, Huo Yaowen's book would not have sold such a high sales, and it would have been Amitabha Buddha who could sell one million copies.

To put it bluntly, at this time, the sales frenzy of "1999" in Japan has become a general trend, and Huo Yaowen's fame is becoming more and more majestic under the promotion of Aso Sajiro and the mentality of the Japanese advocating the strong, which is more intense than in Hong Kong Island or the United States.

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Two hours later, when it was getting late, Huo Yaowen asked the people in the company to entertain Nobita Fujiwara and the three of them to a nearby hotel for dinner, while he himself stayed in the office, silently digesting the almost five-body praise of Fujiwara, Kimura and Miura just now.

After Yao Wenjie arranged a banquet for Fujiwara and several people, he hurriedly pushed open the office door and walked in, saw Huo Yaowen sitting behind the desk in a daze, and quickly stepped forward and said, "Chairman." ”

"How's the arrangement over there?" Hearing the sound, Huo Yaowen glanced up at him.

Yao Wenjie nodded: "It's all arranged, Fujiwara and the others booked a hotel to stay in by themselves, so I only asked Zeng Weigan to take a few people from the company to accompany them to dinner." ”

"Editor-in-Chief Yao, you also heard Fujiwara's words just now, do you think what he said is true?" Huo Yaowen pursed his lips, he still couldn't believe some of the too terrifying things Fujiwara Daibita said.

Yao Wenjie pondered for a few seconds and said: "Although it is a bit exaggerated, it only took half a month to sell 3.6 million copies, which is indeed incredible, even if it is printed, I am afraid it is a little too late......

After saying that, he paused and continued: "But...... Chairman, didn't I talk to you before? The Japanese market is very strange, and we can't figure out what the little devils are thinking. Moreover, Nobita Fujiwara said that "1999" sold so well in Japan, doesn't it mean that the more you earn, the more opportunities we will have to open up the Japanese book market in the future!"

"You're right. Huo Yaowen chuckled, since Nobita Fujiwara dared to say it, what did he dare not believe?

Thinking that his book had sold so well in Japan, Huo Yaowen was happy in his heart, but he was also thinking about the further cooperation proposed by Fang Cai Fujiwara and others.

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