There is always a shadow on the back side of the sun, and if there is no sin in this world, there is no justice and goodness. Italy and the United States have mafia, Hong Kong has Xin-Ngee An, 14-K, Taiwan has the Bamboo-United Gang, the Four Seas Gang, and the Tiandao League, and Japan also has three well-known mafia-social organizations.

The most familiar to Chinese is naturally the Yamaguchi-gumi, known as the world's largest gang. In addition to the Yamaguchi-gumi, there are two other community organizations in Japan that can be equally famous - the Inagawa Society and the Sumiyoshi Association.

Among them, Sumiyoshikai's nest is located in Tokyo, and the operation of underground gambling houses and drug trafficking is its main source of profit. However, as the Japanese government's crackdown on mafia organizations has intensified, Japanese mafia, including Sumiyoshikai, has begun to transform into corporatization and corporatization, and has gradually laundered most of its assets.

Of course, if the triad really develops into a normal enterprise, it will not be called the triad. They have just changed from blatantly picking the bottom line of the law to wandering on the edge of the law, thus making it more difficult for the government and the law to convict them.

It has been said that only in a democratic society can a real black-social organization appear. Because in a democratic society, the power of the government will be greatly limited, and there will be no power to determine life and death. As long as the club bosses can afford the high lawyers' fees, the lawyers can always find loopholes in the law to help their employers get away with the crime!

Japan is the extreme embodiment of this situation, as it was a defeated country in World War II, the former militarist government was completely purged by the United States, and the rights and authority of the new government after the war were greatly weakened.

The mafia in the United States is world-famous. But at least they don't dare to play their own banner openly. Japan's yakuza organizations are much more arrogant, such as the Fukushima nuclear disaster caused by the tsunami after the earthquake in the future, the Yamaguchi-gumi and other community organizations organized rescue operations in the first place. Even their rescue efforts are far more efficient than the slow response of the Japanese government.

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Norio Ohga looked at the report in his hand and couldn't help frowning. He had vaguely felt a black hand hiding in the shadows and quietly attacking Sony. And now that he saw the details collected by his subordinates, he was more sure of his judgment.

A month ago, the first story appeared in Hong Kong newspapers about the piracy of Asian Pictures' new film, "Diary of a Big Husband," which hit the box office in Southeast Asia and other places.

And then the Japanese branch of Asia Pictures. It's like the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department made a report. The culprit behind this film copyright leak is a small leader of Sumiyoshikai. He bribed the manager of a Sony Cinema in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward to obtain a copy of the new film "Diary of a Big Husband," which is being released in Japan.

The reason why Sumiyoshikai aimed at the movie "Diary of a Big Husband". To a large extent, this is also because this is the blackest dark horse in the Japanese film market in recent times. With the high popularity of the leading actor Zhang Guorong among the majority of teachers and girls in Japan, as well as the love light comedy theme that pleases female audiences, the box office of "Diary of a Big Husband" has been rising since its release in Japan.

However, the protection of intellectual property rights in Japan is still very good. So this small boss of Sumiyoshikai in order to reduce his own risk. deliberately split the Japanese domestic movie, and instead attacked the Hong Kong movie of the Raptors crossing the river. In addition, after the production of pirated videotapes and VCDs, they were not sold in Japan, but were exported in large quantities to Southeast Asia, where asset rights protection is weak, relying on the overseas branches of the Sumiyoshi Association.

Although the copyright leak of "Diary of a Big Husband" has been related to Sony from the beginning, Norio Oga did not notice such a small thing at first. As the CEO of Sony, a world-renowned electronics giant, he has a lot of work to do every day.

And Sony's reaction at the beginning. It was only the cinema company that was implicated that issued a statement in support of property rights protection, and at the same time actively cooperated with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. The cinema manager involved in the case was dealt with.

However, the film copyright leak incident did not stop because of this, but intensified. In addition to "Diary of a Big Husband", two more Hong Kong films released in Japan soon had copyright leakage problems. Although this time it has nothing to do with Sumiyoshi Club and Sony Cinemas, the way of breaking the law is almost the same.

As a result, conspiracy theories soon appeared in Hong Kong newspapers, and some columnists pointed out that the successive emergence of Hong Kong films and the leakage of copies after their release in Japan were by no means accidental, but probably driven by some powerful forces.

And these films that have been cut in half at the overseas box office have a common feature, that is, the copyright has been bought out by Oriental Commercial Company, and there will be no videotape version in the future. So the black hand behind the scenes is about to come out, and this is a dark war between the emerging VCD players and the old VCRs.

As a multinational company, Sony is still very quick to respond. When it found that the focus of the matter had risen from the original copyright leak to the format dispute, Sony headquarters immediately issued a statement to remove itself from the hands of evildoers. Because once it is poured with the sewage of secretly supporting piracy, it will be a serious blow to Sony's global reputation.

If it's just the Hong Kong media hyping up this matter, Sony won't take it too seriously. Because the scope of Hong Kong media is very limited, it can only create some storms in Hong Kong.

But things soon got out of hand, because in Southeast Asia, Taiwan and other places, pirated VCD discs about European and American music and movies appeared again. As a result, the media in the United States also began to report on this incident, and Norio Oga, the CEO of Sony, finally noticed this incident.

Because many of the pirated music VCDs that flow out of the Asian market are music copyright products of CBS Records. CBS Records was recently acquired by Sony, so Sony is actually one of the main victims of piracy.

But in the media reports in the United States, Sony did not receive much sympathy from public opinion. Because in the United States in 1988, it was the time when the anti-Japanese wave began to ferment rapidly.

Since the Plaza Accord, the yen has appreciated rapidly against the U.S. dollar, which has led to a rapid increase in the overseas purchasing power of Japanese companies. Last year's "Black Monday" crash hit the U.S. stock market hard, leaving the valuations of countless U.S.-listed companies at a low point.

This naturally triggered the Japanese, who were not short of money in their pockets, to go on a rampage for various mergers and acquisitions in the United States. Looking at one American company after another, one American high-rise building after another, being pocketed by local tyrants from Japan, Americans naturally feel very uncomfortable.

Because the Japanese came to the United States to spend money lavishly, naturally they did not come to do good deeds. Japanese companies acquire their U.S. counterparts in order to eliminate competitors and increase their market share. And this usually means that many Americans will be robbed of their jobs.

Because large-scale layoffs after mergers and acquisitions have almost become a common practice for many large companies. In order to gain the support of RCA's internal employees for the takeover bid, Oriental Group also made a special commitment not to carry out large-scale layoffs.

However, it is difficult for companies acquired by Japan to avoid layoffs. As a result, Japan's image in the eyes of Americans is rapidly deteriorating, and the American media naturally has to cater to the needs of mainstream public opinion in order to ensure its own sales and ratings.

Therefore, a representative Japanese electronics company like Sony has a bad image in the American media recently, not to mention that Sony has just acquired CBS Records. Columbia Corporation (CBS) not only publishes music records, but also the famous Columbia Pictures and CBS.

Sony's acquisition of CBS Records was actually just a tentative effort, and its real purpose was to annex Columbia Pictures. However, if Columbia Pictures, as one of the eight major Hollywood production companies, is taken over by Japanese capital, it will not be good news for the American film industry bigwigs, who are very wary of and resistant to even Wall Street capital.

So at this juncture, with a little guidance from someone with a heart, all kinds of negative reports about Sony began to emerge overwhelmingly. For example, CBS Records' large number of pirated VCDs in the Asian market is considered a bitter ploy directed and acted by Sony.

BECAUSE SONY HAS JUST DECIDED TO ABANDON ITS BETA FORMAT, IT MEANS THAT IT HAS ADMITTED THAT IT HAS LOST THE BATTLE WITH JVC FOR THE VIDEO RECORDER FORMAT. The two formats of BETA and VHS have been competing for a decade, and no one will believe that Sony will now convince itself of convincing the towel.

Since you can't get much benefit from it, it's a good choice to simply make it impossible for competitors to make more profits to grow themselves. And the emergence of VCD players happened to give Sony a chance to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

If Sony can set a fire and cause a vicious fight between VHS recorders and VCD players, it can buy more time for Sony to launch more advanced follow-up products. So from this point of view, Sony has a good motive to do evil.

After various reports unfavorable to Sony appeared in the American media, Norio Oga immediately attached great importance to it and immediately asked his subordinates to understand the cause and effect of the incident. (To be continued.) )