Chapter 69: To Akihabara
January 21, 1984, sleepless night.
Nick, who didn't have a good rest and sat on the steamer for more than ten hours, was busy until late at night with Kenhiro Dochido and others.
After a few hours, I returned to the port of Tokyo, took out 10,000 "Catch the Balls", and shipped them to the warehouse prepared by the orphans.
Nearly 20 days of preparation, in terms of Japanese orphans, I got the funds of the Huaxia factory and did a lot of things.
First, they registered a company, second, they rented a warehouse, and again they gathered some information on products similar to gaming watches.
Of course, Huaxia Factory did not expect these unfamiliar orphans to investigate much information. While collecting the orphans, Yu Tiecheng also commissioned Polly to conduct a detailed investigation.
In fact, there are some slight violations in this operation, which is suspected of private use of public weapons. However, this is not a problem, and reform and opening up has not only opened up the economy, but also opened up the mind. Many things that used to need to be put on the platform are now gone with one eye turned a blind eye.
Otherwise, how could the embassy in Japan get the crown limousine sponsored by Japanese businessmen.
Polly's investigative ability is much higher than that of the orphans. Based on the detailed information provided by Polly, Yu Tiecheng finally decided to enter the Japanese market.
Yu Tiecheng, who had made a decision, was still sighing with Li Zizhen, and said something that he was not very suitable, he said this, "Maybe Huaxia Factory is destined for good luck." ”
The reason why he said this is because the timing and conditions are just right.
In order to avoid the entry of foreign capital and disrupt the domestic market, Japan has a special regulation, that is, foreign capital in Japan can only establish a joint venture company to establish a company, and there must be a shareholder of Japanese nationality holding at least 50% of the shares. This requirement will not be lifted until three years after the company has been incorporated.
If you find a Japanese person at random, you don't know the roots, it will definitely make people very worried, but those orphans in Japan who know the roots can make people feel at ease.
This is human, and in addition to harmony, it seems that there is also the blessing of heaven.
The LCD panel production line of Huaxia factory is imported from Japan. It stands to reason that Japan has more advanced technology and a more mature market, and portable video game consoles such as game watches should have been born in Japan.
However, Japanese video game manufacturers are still wrestling in the arcade market. Manufacturers who have mastered LCD panel technology are focused on the field of electronic calculators. They are all competing for the already saturated red ocean market, the blue ocean market of portable video game consoles, but no one cares.
On the one hand, the interest in video games in Japan has been discovered, and on the other hand, there are not many competitors in the portable game console segment.
Even if the portable game consoles mentioned in the newspapers and periodicals have sold tens of thousands of units, it is because Japan is now in a golden age, and money is not money. These portable game consoles, due to their large size, are inconvenient to carry, and after the freshness, the follow-up is weak, and the players who have bought them are put at home to eat ashes, and those who have not bought them have been discouraged.
Orphans, people in Japan.
Blue ocean market, time of day.
Golden Age, Geographical Advantage.
Although the time, place, and people are all in place, Yu Tiecheng is not blindly optimistic, and is too optimistic about the watch of the game watch in the Japanese market.
After all, the Japanese market is far from the Huaxia factory, and there is no local snake like Parkinson's who has been immersed in the local market for decades, and there are many risks that are unpredictable and uncontrollable.
However, on a cautious and optimistic side, gaming watches will at least not lose money in Japan. Besides, there is a certain amount of time to sell game watches in Japan, which is to help the orphans who are living a hard life in Japan.
They have lived in China for half their lives and are basically Chinese. It is so inhumane to watch one's compatriots live miserably in Japan, and to do what they can, but not to help them.
The entry of gaming watches into the Japanese market is not because of the casual remarks and interest of the rest of your life. It's a deliberate act.
Labor costs in Japan are not low. One hundred "Catch the Ball" is a cardboard shell box, one box is carried at a time, and 10,000 units need to be carried 100 times. The six orphans and Nick, seven of them, took an hour to move them to the warehouse and put them in order.
By the time the transportation was finished, it was already dark.
After landing on the ship, Nick looked at Tokyo at four o'clock in the morning as if he had been beaten with chicken blood and said, "Let's go, let's go to Akihabara." ”
Polly, who had disappeared for a while at night, reappeared when Nick was about to leave for Akihabara. He changed his attire, got a mustache, and his behavior became a lot more lazy, without the ability of a soldier, and even his English-speaking accent changed from a British accent to a Texas red-necked taste.
If he hadn't revealed his identity to Nick, Nick wouldn't have known that the one in front of him and the one yesterday were the same person.
Nick was amazed slightly, but didn't ask why, he must have a reason for doing so.
The group drove a rented pickup truck, and when they arrived in Akihabara, it was already past five o'clock. All the shops on the street are open and ready to open.
Young guys, moving and placing goods inside and out. And the overseers who seem to be a little older are generally the bosses.
In 1984, Akihabara was still an electric town. The reason why it became an electric street is because the American GIs stationed in Japan after the war liked to bring out some electronic components that were scarce in Japan at that time and sold them, and over time it became a prosperous and stable black market for electronic components.
Naturally, there were one electrical repair shop after another, electrical appliance sales shops, and even if the black market disappeared, this was already an electrical street.
Before it became an electrical street, the main shops here were basically selling fruits. Before the electrical street, this is the fruit street. As for the fact that in a few decades it will become a street of anime, manga, and games, that's another story.
Nick saw a shop in a good location, walked up in three steps and said in English, "Hello, I want to display my products for sale here, please agree." ”
Polly translated Nick's words into Japanese.
The person who was accosted by Nick is called Sugizaki Keitaro, who is the owner of this Sugizaki Electric Company. He is already fifty years old, the good figure of his youth has left him, and his abdomen has a big bulge, and a pregnant woman who is seven months pregnant cannot compare to him.
He was yawning, and after listening to Polly's translation, he asked calmly, "What are your products?" ”
Nick hands "Catch" to Sugisaki.
Sugizaki looked at the plastic-shelled gadget, fiddled with it, and asked with a slight mockery, "This is your product?" You Americans are really getting more and more finished, although the price was expensive before, but the quality can still be compared with our Japanese goods. I didn't expect that now you have even started to make such inferior gadgets. If you want to sell it, sell it, but I'm kind enough to tell you, don't cry if you can't sell it. ”
Looking at the swaggering Kentaro Sugisaki, after listening to Polly's translation, Nick almost laughed. Although, a few Japanese brands of electrical appliances such as Soni have reached the threshold of high-end. However, in the eyes of Americans, Japanese goods are still inferior products and the image of counterfeit goods. Most of the buyers are low- and middle-income people, and I really don't know where his confidence comes from. Perhaps, this is the rapid development of the country, leading to the expansion of the people.
"Thank you, thank you very much." Nick said in sandwich Japanese.
Seeing Nick's attitude and hearing his broken Japanese, Boss Sugisaki's sense of national pride came spontaneously. When Nick and the others moved the table to set up, he also asked his subordinates to bring a pot of barley tea.
He would leave the store after the store was set up in the morning, but he also stayed in the store today. Standing in the cash register, holding a cup of tea, watching the movements of Nick and the others outside.
It seems to be waiting for them to make a fool of themselves.
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