Masayoshi Kishimoto found a small bookstore on the corner where you could sit and drink coffee and read a book. There were no other customers except themselves, and it was a deserted scene.

Naturally, this is also inextricably linked to the Asian financial crisis. Still, it was exactly the quiet place he wanted.

Masayoshi Kishimoto asked for a cup of freshly ground mocha coffee. He heard the cacophony of coffee beans being ground into powder as he browsed the books on the shelves here.

It's normal to not have comic books, and I don't feel like there's anything nondescript. There are no comic books in a small bookstore like this, even if they are located in Akihabara.

The place to read comic books here in Tokyo, in addition to the Internet café, is a manga tea house specializing in manga. Another good thing about these places is the ability to spend the night.

Tracing back to the origins of history, it was all when the RB economy bubbled, whether it was salarymen working late and missing the last train, or playing late in nightclubs, people who lost track of time used it to settle and deal with a night's work.

With the bursting of the economic bubble in the early 90s, these places gradually became permanent residences for some people. Later, in addition to the refugees from Internet cafes, many people will choose a temporary place to live as their first stop in Beijing.

Masayoshi Kishimoto chose two books, one is "Sanshiro" by Natsume Soseki and the other is "Crab Boat" by Takiji Kobayashi. These two books are enough to accompany me for an entire afternoon.

Kishimoto justice belongs to people who are both elegant and vulgar, and they are not bound to one style at all. "Sanshiro" and "Crab Boat" both represent the phased characteristics of RB's development process.

"Crab Boat" depicts unemployed workers, bankrupt farmers, poor students, and children aged 14 or 5 who are deceived into being employed by the crab ship "Hakko Maru", and drift for a long time to engage in primitive, backward and heavy crab fishing labor.

Originally an industrial vessel that could not operate far into the sea, the crab boat was artificially converted into a fishing vessel capable of going to the waters of Kamchatka to catch crabs.

The Kamchatka Peninsula, which has a particularly complex sea climate, produces some of the world's best king crabs, and shrimp fishing is also carried out by the way. This shows the blood-drenched accumulation of primitive capital in the initial stage of capitalism.

The novel truly exposes the murderous nature of exploitation and oppression of fishermen by the fishing capitalists and reactionary armies, and correctly expresses the development process of the RB working class from spontaneous resistance to conscious struggle, which is one of the outstanding works in the history of modern literature of RB.

Even in 1997, or twenty years later, or even longer, it is not outdated to read the novel "Crab Boat".

Even if the capitalism of the RB has developed from the initial stage to the advanced stage, the relationship between the exploiter (the dominant) and the exploited (the dominated) has never changed.

The exploitation mode of capitalism in the initial stage is simple, direct and crude, while the exploitation mode of capitalism in the advanced stage becomes more subtle and diverse, so that the exploited can have an illusion and live well.

Many people will enjoy it even if they are gang-raped every day in various fancy ways, and they have never seen them excited once like they can look like when they fight or quarrel, it is really fragrant.

When Masayoshi Kishimoto returned with the book, a cup of mocha coffee had already been placed in the place he had chosen. He placed the two books on the small round wooden table in front of him.

Masayoshi Kishimoto picked up Takiji Kobayashi's "Crab Boat" first. Although it is a long novel, the book is not thick, and it can be read in one or two hours.

It's still early to dinner at seven or eight o'clock in the evening. Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro" was enough to add to the rest of his time after watching "Crab Boat".

In Kishimoto's view, "Sanshiro" is not only the first overture in the "trilogy" of RB writer Natsume Soseki, and is known as the best youth novel in Soseki's literature, but also reflects the unbridgeable gap between the RB class, or the compromises that have to be made in the face of reality.

Even if the female protagonist likes the male protagonist so much, the female protagonist's brother also has an appreciative attitude towards the male protagonist, which makes the two of them unable to be together.

The heroine ended up marrying another man who was of the same class as her. The background of the male protagonist is a poor student who was admitted to a university in Tokyo from Kumamoto High School.。

Kumamoto, a small RB place, will become famous in later generations and make many Chinese remember the name, but not because of Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro", one is the cute mascot Kumamoto Bear, the other is the best strawberry in all RB, and the third is the earthquake.

At the beginning, a person the male protagonist met on the train boldly mentioned the argument that RB would die sooner or later with the current development path.

When he arrived at the university in Tokyo, he originally thought that he had studied a lot, but he also liked the partial and unpopular. In fact, when he borrowed an unpopular and out-of-the-way book from the library to look at it, he found that someone had already corrected the mistake with a pencil on the page, which shocked him, and he really understood what it means to have a heaven outside the sky, and there are people outside the world.

When I was in Kumamoto, I was like a frog at the bottom of a well. Moreover, it is the dazzle brought to him by the metropolis of Tokyo, as well as the various impacts in his heart.

All of this is in the opinion of Kishimoto Masayoshi, and those college students in later generations who passed the college entrance examination like the male protagonist, were admitted to universities, and entered big cities from small places are the same.

Whether it is Kobayashi Takiji's "Crab Boat" or Natsume Soseki's "Sanshiro", even if the book was written very early, it does not make the core feel outdated at all.

The charm of serious literature is that it reflects human nature. As for the background, there is a sense of the times from various periods.

Masayoshi Kishimoto is not nostalgic, nor does he think that books must keep up with the so-called sense of the times. A good work, even after a hundred years, is a good work. Garbage works, even if they are the latest, are still garbage works.

He believes that reading books is not about the lot, but about the method. No matter how much you read the book, the method is not right, and it is in vain. In addition, it is important to develop good reading habits, preferably by setting aside half an hour every day for a bedtime reading.

Kishimoto is well aware that from the perspective of wealth, reading cannot directly increase one's assets, but it can increase one's wisdom, and indirectly provides strong intellectual support for the increase of one's wealth.

"I hate less when the book is used", that is because I don't have a good accumulation on weekdays. Under the Asian financial turmoil, some people chose to go to the pachinko room, while others chose to study. He belongs to the latter group.