Traveling through the Tokyo bubble era

Chapter 802 Sumiyoshi Society’s “Civil War”

Hideki Hanyu, who hid in the corner and did nothing, disguised himself from head to toe, never expected that he would be recognized.

So when someone suddenly called him, he immediately turned around in confusion, and then found that the person who spoke was also a disguised person.

She was wearing a pink woolen hat, a red sweatshirt, jeans, ordinary plastic-framed glasses, and a lightly made-up face. She looked like a white-collar worker who had changed into casual clothes to relax after get off work.

But it just so happens that Hideki Hanyu knows this person.

It was Kanako Higuchi whom I had met in the office building in Chuo Ward a few days ago.

"What's the matter with you?"

However, even though he recognized the person, Hanyu Hideki's expression did not change.

Even when he spoke, there was a hint of warning in his tone.

After all, he didn't want the other party to call his name again, exposing his identity and ruining the gathering of old friends tonight.

"I'm very sorry to bother you, Yu... I just realized it was you, so I came to say hello. By the way, I want to ask you a question."

Hanyu Hideki said without turning his head, "You can go now. I don't have time to answer your questions."

His tone was distant, he refused right away and ordered him to leave.

Who would have thought that Higuchi Kananko had no intention of leaving. Instead, she stood there and spoke with a pleading look on her face.

"Please, can you tell me where Sato Kyoko is? Or can you let me meet Sato Kyoko?"

It can be seen that Kanako Higuchi is very eager to meet Kyoko Sato. It is probably because of the debt problem of the investment company that she needs to communicate with Kyoko Sato.

Hanyu Hideki frowned, "What does this have to do with me?"

Kanako Higuchi looked around, put her head close to Hanyu Hideki, and spoke in a low voice.

"When I went to look for her a few days ago, I saw that she was taken away by your assistant, and then I couldn't contact her."

As soon as the 31-year-old mature beauty approached, Hideki Hanyu smelled a faint fragrance on her body.

Different from the freshness and elegance of young girls, even the smell of her perfume gives people a mature and seductive feeling.

However, although the beauty is beautiful, the scumbag still has that indifferent look.

"You'll be able to contact him in two days. Don't say anything before then, understand?"

"I'm so sorry, I really need to contact her for something urgent. Can you let her see me tomorrow?" Higuchi Kanako pleaded again.

"Tomorrow? Mitsui & Co.'s reception, if you can get in."

After Hanyu Hideki finished speaking, he saw that Higuchi Kanako wanted to say something.

He immediately looked at the other person with cold eyes, "If you disturb me and my friends again, I guarantee that your fate will be worse than being in debt!"

"I'm so sorry! I'll leave now."

After Kanako Higuchi apologized in panic, she immediately turned around and left.

From the corner of his eye, Hanyu Hideki saw that after the other party walked down the stairs, he met a middle-aged man with short hair.

Although the light was very bad and Hanyu Hideki did not see the man's specific appearance clearly, he could roughly guess that it should be Higuchi Kanako's boyfriend Shigesato Itoi.

It seems that this Showa beauty appeared in this nightclub not to stalk him, but to accompany her boyfriend.

Thinking of the other party's anxious expression just now, Hanyu Hideki showed an amused smile.

He really wanted to know whether Shigesato Itoi, Nintendo's ace game producer, knew that his girlfriend owed a huge debt and was willing to help her solve it.

A few days ago, after he arranged for his assistant to pick up Kyoko Sato, he learned from Kyoko Sato about the debt problems of many of his artist clients.

Just as Yoshida Makiko told him, among all the clients of Sato Kyoko who went bankrupt, Higuchi Kanako was indeed the one who owed the most debt.

And the debt is not just 100 million yen as Yoshida Makiko said.

Kanako Higuchi owed more than 300 million yen to banks and loan companies alone.

Taking into account losses from other sources, such as compensation, interest and other debts, Kanako Higuchi was carrying at least 500 million yen in debt.

To pay off this much money, even the singer-songwriter who is recognized as the most profitable in the entertainment industry would need to avoid paying taxes, eating, drinking, or spending, and save for several years to pay it off.

As an actress, it would be difficult for Kanako Higuchi to pay off all this money even if she worked hard for more than ten years.

After all, other money is easy to deal with, but the interest on money from banks and lending companies is no joke.

You should know that in Japan now, it has been stipulated that interest rates above 29.2% are considered illegal usury.

But in actual implementation, loan sharking gangs that collude with the black and white have too many ways to circumvent these regulations.

Moreover, they also have enough methods to prevent those being chased for debts from taking legal action.

Not to mention that Kanako Higuchi is also an entertainer.

Nowadays, the control of the Japanese underworld over the entertainment industry is not as rampant as it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

But if we convert it into a ratio, it has at most dropped from 70 to 80 percent to 40 to 50 percent.

The deterrent power and influence of the Yakuza on the entertainment industry is still unimaginably huge, but their methods of doing things are more covert and more "gentle" than before.

Therefore, even if Kanako Higuchi had a hundred guts, she would not dare to default on the debts of those lending companies.

But those things have nothing to do with Hideki Hanyu.

Therefore, Hanyu Hideki only took a closer look downstairs because of the appearance of Itoi Shigesato, then he forgot about the two of them and continued chatting with Tanaka Yukio and Yanai Tadashi.

……

More than two hours later, Hanyu Hideki and the other two left the nightclub.

They chatted, drank fine wine, and went to the dance floor to relax and have fun with the music. They had a great time, but the three of them, who were also tired, decided to go to a quieter place to continue the party.

It’s just that there were only three of them when they went in, but when they came out, they were surrounded by a group of beautiful girls.

These women have nothing to do with Hanyu Hideki. They were completely seduced by Tanaka Yukio.

According to the girls themselves, they are trainee flight attendants of All Nippon Airways. They had just finished an assessment at the end of the year, so they decided to come here to relax.

Regardless of whether their identities are real or fake, at least they are tall and have long legs, beautiful hair and a pretty face, which is indeed a level better than ordinary Japanese girls.

The next place they went to was the hot spring club they often went to.

After booking a large open-air bath, when everyone took off their clothes and entered the hot spring pool, Hideki Hanyu's appearance could no longer be disguised.

At the edge of the hot spring pool, a handsome elf-like man with white hair hanging down was sitting in the misty hot spring pool. For a moment, it was like a poem or a dream, like a flower in the mirror or a moon in the water, giving people a sense of unreality.

Even if we put aside Hideki Hanyu's identity, just the beautiful scene after his appearance immediately made all the beauties playing around Yukio Tanaka lose their minds and instantly attracted all their attention.

"I knew it! I knew it would be like this! This is why I don't like hanging out with Hanyu-kun, because girls are always attracted to him!"

The reactions of the beauties made Yukio Tanaka very annoyed.

Tanaka Yukio's complaints made Yanai Tadashi laugh out loud.

"Haha... I thought Tanaka-san had gotten used to it. But I think it's not just you. As long as Hanyu-san is around, all men will be eclipsed and ashamed of themselves."

Yukio Tanaka glanced at Hideki Hanyu, who was "beautiful alone" in the mist, and at the stewardesses around him who were obviously obsessed with Hanyu Hideki but did not dare to approach him.

I couldn't help but curl my lips and said, "I think it's not just men, women are probably the same."

Upon hearing this, Yanai Tadashi glanced at the "dreamlike" Hanyu Hideki and nodded in approval.

"If possible, I really want to invite him to be the spokesperson for Uniqlo."

Tanaka Yukio said nonchalantly, "Just say it directly. He is also a major shareholder of Uniqlo, so it is only natural for him to contribute a little."

Yanai Tadashi shook his head. "It's just a thought. Uniqlo's brand style is affordable fashion, focusing on cost-effectiveness, which is totally inconsistent with Hanyu-san's temperament."

Having said that, Yanai Tadashi looked at Tanaka Yukio again and sighed.

"Tanaka-san said in the nightclub before that it was a good thing for Hanyu-san that he didn't become popular in your agency. Now it seems to be true."

"Hey?"

Yukio Tanaka had no idea why Yanai Tadashi would bring up these words again, nor did he understand what Yanai Tadashi meant.

Yanai Tadashi explained, "If he is still just an entertainer as he is now, even Tanaka-san may not be able to dispel the covetousness of some people."

After hearing what Yanai Tadashi said, Yukio Tanaka glanced at Hideki Hanyu and nodded in approval.

Although the Tanaka family has some wealth, they are just ordinary businessmen in Neon.

There are many men among the upper class in Japan who like homosexuality, not to mention the women from the powerful class.

If you don't protect your own strength, being too good will become a sin.

But fortunately, Hideki Hanyu now has the strength that others dare not covet.

Yukio Tanaka and Tadashi Yanai's casual chat continues.

After the initial astonishment, the trainee flight attendants gradually calmed down and began to get restless.

After all, whether it is Hideki Hanyu's appearance, his status or his wealth, they are enough to make women crazy.

But just when some of them tried to get close to Hanyu Hideki, a man in a black suit with a cold expression suddenly walked up to the bathtub.

The man was none other than Marco.

After approaching the bath, Marco squatted behind Hanyu Hideki and whispered in a low voice, "Boss, Okoshi and Shi have decided to take action tonight, and the location is Shibaura."

Hanyu Hideki, who had been resting with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes when he heard this.

"I hope Oetsu and Shi won't let me down."

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Minato-ku, Shibaura.

This was one of the first areas in Tokyo to be reclaimed from the sea, with canals extending in all directions. Although it later became one of the most livable areas in the port area.

But now, it is a real industrial and commercial cluster, with factories, warehouses, office buildings and other industrial and commercial facilities occupying most of Shibaura's area.

The famous Toshiba Group in Japan was formerly known as Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd., which was formed by the merger of Shibaura Manufacturing in Shibaura and Tokyo Electric.

In addition to being the founding place of the Toshiba Group, this place is also the birthplace of Japan's second largest yakuza organization, the Sumiyoshi-kai.

In the early Meiji period, Ito Shogoro gathered gamblers to form the "Sumiyoshi Family" in Shibaura, which was the origin of the Sumiyoshi-kai.

In the 1950s, the third generation of the "Sumiyoshi family" united the yakuza forces in the Kanto region with the Sumiyoshi family as the center and jointly established the "Hong Kong Kai", the predecessor of the Sumiyoshi Kai.

So the Sumiyoshi-kai, which appears to be a yakuza organization, is actually a yakuza alliance formed by the union of many organizations, just like the Yaguchi-gumi.

In the 1960s, the fourth generation of the Sumiyoshi family and the second generation of the "Minato-kai" took over and renamed the "Minato-kai" to Sumiyoshi-kai, thus the Sumiyoshi-kai was born.

However, after the Sumiyoshi-kai formed the "Kanto-kai" with other forces in the 1960s, it faced a comprehensive official crackdown on yakuza forces, and the "Kanto-kai" was disbanded.

After experiencing some turmoil, the Sumiyoshi-kai welcomed their fifth generation leader, and since then the Sumiyoshi-kai was renamed the "Sumiyoshi Renhekai".

Under the efforts of the Fifth Generation, the strength of the organization expanded rapidly by continuously annexing small Yakuza organizations and absorbing other organizations into the organization.

Today, the Sumiyoshi-kai has become a gangster organization with more than 12,000 members and influence throughout Hokkaido, Tohoku, and Kanto regions.

In the early 1980s, in order to adapt to the times and also under official suppression, the fifth generation of the Sumiyoshi-kai began to appoint a successor, the sixth generation recognized by the organization, and made major reforms to the organizational structure and business model.

Tighten the power and funds, operate in a group, make a lot of normal investments, and try to reform and whitewash the organization on the surface. As for the effect...

Taking advantage of the bubble economy era that began in the 1980s, Sumiyoshi-kai naturally made rapid progress in various new businesses and achieved great success.

The brilliant achievements achieved by the Sumiyoshi-kai with the help of the bubble economy also suppressed the internal conflicts brought about by organizational reforms to a certain extent.

For example, core centralization and group operations may cause dissatisfaction among alliance organizations.

For example, the upper echelons rely on power and the convenience of group operations to enrich themselves, or there is an uneven distribution of benefits among various alliance organizations, etc.

But just recently, someone brought these suppressed contradictions to the fore.

This person is...

The third generation of the Sumiyoshi family's flower field meeting, Kazushi Ogotsu.

The Hanada-kai was originally a yakuza organization located in Ota-ku, but due to organizational conflicts, they were absorbed into the Sumiyoshi-kai after the reconciliation.

As the third generation leader of the Hanada Society, Ogoshi Kazufumi was known as the "mad dog" of Ota Ward because of his daring and reckless behavior in battle.

However, although Dai Yue and Shi are known as "mad dogs", they are not crazy at all in their management organization.

After joining the Sumiyoshi-kai, relying on external battles and economic means, the Hanada-kai's territory was no longer limited to Ota Ward, and he also gained a great reputation within the Sumiyoshi-kai.

A few years ago, when the fifth generation leader of the Sumiyoshi-kai was training his successor, the sixth generation leader, there was a movement within the society to nominate Okoshi Kazufumi.

But the momentum eventually faded for two reasons.

First of all, Dai Yue and Shi took the initiative to "give in" and withdrew from the competition.

Of course, the more important point is that the fifth generation wanted to implement the organizational reform plan, and he recognized the ideas of another successor and publicly supported the other candidate.

He is the current president of the Sumiyoshi-kai.

After the Sumiyoshi-kai implemented reforms, the position of the highest leader became the president, and the chairman became the second in command.

However, afterwards, rumors began to spread among the Sumiyoshi-kai that Ogoshi Kazufumi was actually under pressure from the Fifth Hokage to give up his position before the Fifth Hokage publicly supported his successor.

What the truth is, Dai Yuehe Shi never revealed it to anyone.

But in the following years, as if wanting to prove himself, Ogoshi and Fumi began to demonstrate their talents in the new business of the Sumiyoshi-kai.

Relying on real estate, securities, investment, financial credit, entertainment and gambling and other businesses, Hanadakai has become the most profitable alliance organization of the Sumiyoshikai.

They also led other organizations within the society to generate income, and through this, they made friends with and won over a large number of "like-minded" people and a large number of forces.

To this day, Ogoshi Kazufumi, who had taken the initiative to "give way" in the election of the sixth generation, has become even more powerful and influential within the Sumiyoshi-kai than he was a few years ago.

Just when everyone thought that Ooetsu and Shi did this in order to compete for the position of the sixth generation again.

However, a few days ago, Okoshi and Fumi suddenly launched an inquiry into the fifth generation of the Sumiyoshi-kai, who is also the current president, and the current chairman.

At the year-end meeting of the Sumiyoshi-kai, while all organizations gathered at the headquarters, Otsu and Fumi publicly produced a large amount of evidence, exposing that during the reforms of the Sumiyoshi-kai over the years, the president and his confidants used their power to enrich themselves.

Not only did they embezzle the overall profits of the Sumiyoshi-kai, but they also withheld a large amount of the interests belonging to the franchise associations during the group operation.

In addition to these, there are also some conspiracy tactics against franchise societies, all of which were exposed by Dai Yue and Shi.

If these were the only issues, many franchise clubs would actually be well aware of them, but the Sumiyoshi-kai's transformation happened to benefit from the heyday of the Neon bubble economy, so as everyone's income increased dramatically, they turned a blind eye to these things.

But the problem is that Dai Viet and Shi revealed more than just this.

He also exposed that the president and chairman of the Sumiyoshi-kai invested the club's shared profits, which should have been distributed to franchise clubs, into the stock market and used the funds to make profits for themselves.

If it were in the past, when the stock market was booming, there would be no problem if this money was thrown into the stock market for a while and then distributed to various franchise associations after making the profits.

But just three weeks ago, Yasushi Mieno took office as the head of Japan's central bank and took the initiative to raise the benchmark interest rate, which directly burst the bubble of Japan's economy and caused a complete collapse of the stock market, which fell for three consecutive weeks.

Then, all the shared profits that the Sumiyoshi-kai should have distributed to its affiliated associations were trapped in the stock market.

In order to avoid being discovered, the president and chairman of the Sumiyoshi-kai could only embezzle company funds to fill the hole, and then wait for the stock market to rebound from the limit and move the funds out again.

But who would have thought that three weeks had passed and the Japanese stock market not only showed no signs of rebounding from the limit down, but instead continued to plummet.

Then the president and chairman of the Sumiyoshi-kai could only continue to rob Peter to pay Paul, watching the hole grow bigger and bigger, and the benefits gained from years of reform were almost lost.

The two's original plan was to wait until after the New Year to find a solution.

However, he never expected that this matter would be discovered by Oeko and Shi, and revealed at the year-end meeting.

Faced with the questioning of Daikoshi and Shi, the fifth-generation president and chairman first became angry and accused Daikoshi and Shi of betrayal and overthrowing their superiors!
However, Ogoshi Kazufumi, who had already won the hearts of the people in the Sumiyoshi-kai through "benefits" and obtained the support of many affiliated societies, would not be intimidated by the president's threats.

He presented evidence and stated the facts, gradually leaving the Fifth Generation President speechless and unable to argue. He completely lost his composure and made random explanations, not knowing how to respond at all.

Under such circumstances, the forces that were originally either neutral or supporting the Fifth-generation President and the Chairman, seeing that their own interests were really damaged, began to demand that the Fifth-generation President and the Chairman tell the truth and take responsibility.

Faced with the pressure from everyone, the fifth-generation president and the chairman directly announced the suspension of the year-end meeting and temporarily avoided everyone's questioning.

However, the actions of the fifth-generation president and the chairman also caused the contradictions that had been suppressed by interests in the past to erupt completely.

After the year-end meeting, news of the outbreak of "internal strife" in the Sumiyoshi-kai quickly spread throughout both the black and white worlds of Japan.

And Ogoshi Kazufumi, the third generation head of the Hanada-kai and a man who rose from the lower ranks to become the leader of the "opposition" who demanded that the president of the Sumiyoshi-kai give an explanation and take due responsibility.

As for the fifth-generation president of the Sumiyoshi-kai, he relied on the forces that supported him to put up a tenacious resistance, cowering like an ostrich, denying everything, and refusing to give everyone an explanation.

On the surface, the two factions were only engaged in verbal confrontation.

But in private, a major war was already being prepared.

Because everyone understands that no matter how much the Sumiyoshi-kai reorganizes and reforms, it is still a yakuza organization. Although verbal accusations can occupy the greater good, if you really want to determine the winner, you still have to rely on traditional means.

Seeing that the Sumiyoshi-kai was about to break out into a "civil war", other Japanese clubs naturally wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to get a piece of the pie.

After all, after the reform, the Sumiyoshi-kai has completely overwhelmed the Inagawa-kai and is the largest society in Japan, sharing the same status as the Yamaguchi-gumi which just split.

Looking at how much benefits the Yamaguchi-gumi gave up to other clubs after the internal war, everyone would naturally be drooling over the Sumiyoshi-kai.

But at this moment, the upper echelons of Japan suddenly conveyed a message, hoping that the many forces in Japan could remain restrained during the "internal strife" of the Sumiyoshi-kai.

This directly led to the fact that although the various social groups were eagerly waiting, they had to temporarily withdraw their efforts and give face to the bigwigs in the upper echelons of Japan.

Of course, everyone also understands that this face is limited.

Once the "internal strife" of the Sumiyoshi-kai gets out of control, even the face of a big shot will not be able to stop the greed of the wolves.

Outsiders understand this principle.

At this time, Ogoshi and Fumiya were standing in Shibaura District under the night sky.

From a simple perspective, after the conflict was made clear, most of the forces in the Sumiyoshi-kai stood on his side, and the strength comparison between him and the president and the chairman was almost seven to three.

But in fact, he knew very well that many forces and people who supported him on the surface were just talking big. Probably not even half of them were really willing to fight him and overthrow the powerful.

Therefore, when comparing his actual strength with that of the president and the chairman, he is actually on par with them.

Although he was called "Mad Dog", he was not really crazy.

He understood that he had to do it before those fence-sitters backed down and before those forces outside who coveted the Sumiyoshi-kai lost their patience.

Quick victory!

Go straight to Huanglong!

Under the dark night sky, in the cold wind.

Da Yue and Shi Zheng looked intently into the distance, where there was an old building with lights on in the dark.

That was the headquarters of the "Sumiyoshi Family", the predecessor of the Sumiyoshi-kai, and the "Port-kai". Now it is also the headquarters of the "Sumiyoshi Family", a core member of the Sumiyoshi-kai.

The headquarters of the Sumiyoshi Alliance, where the year-end meeting was held, in Akasaka, Minato Ward, is just the new headquarters after the reorganization of the alliance.

After the year-end meeting, the fifth-generation president and chairman took their trusted subordinates and hid in this place, acting like turtles.

In the cold wind, Dai Yue and Shi sneered with disdain.

"Haha, President Hori Masao has really lost his mind. He was such a courageous person back then, but now after making a mistake, he doesn't even have the courage to stand up and take responsibility for it."

As soon as Dai Yueheshi finished speaking, someone around him immediately echoed him.

"That's right! The president is no longer the awe-inspiring man he once was! Now only you, big brother, can correct the mistakes of the Sumiyoshi-kai and lead the club to glory again.

Big Brother! Please give the order and start! The brothers can’t wait any longer! "

The man who called Daikoshi Kazushi "big brother" was a sturdy young man who was only wearing a vest in the cold night wind, and his exposed skin was covered with blue-black devil tattoos.

This man's name is Momose Masame, and he is the fourth generation head of the Qinghe clan of the Sumiyoshi family in the Qinglai area.

At the same time, he was also a staunch supporter of Oetsu and Fumi among the many forces in the Sumiyoshi-kai.

If Akina Nakamori's father, Akio Nakamori, who disappeared somewhere unknown, appeared here at this time, he would find that this Masame Momose was the yakuza leader who lent him money back then.

Dai Yue and Shi heard this, but shook their heads calmly, "Be patient, my teacher once told me that even a lion will use all its strength to fight a rabbit, so wait a little longer."

Bai Lai Changmu asked anxiously, "What are you waiting for?"

Okoshi and Shi continued to speak calmly, "Don't worry, those who made mistakes will definitely pay the price. After tonight, the Sumiyoshi-kai will also be reborn."

"Hey……"

In the night breeze, Momose Masame, who completely trusted Ogoshi Kazushi, could only sigh anxiously.

However, Dai Yue and Shi's wait did not last long.

Soon, a black commercial vehicle slowly drove up to Dayue and Shi and stopped. After the door opened, two men in blue dock work clothes got out of the car, lifted several large boxes from the car and threw them to the side of the road.

Then the two men got back into the car and drove away, as if they didn't see Da Yue and Shi and the others.

Okoshi and Shi looked at the boxes in front of them, then turned to Baize Changmu and said, "The thing I've been waiting for is here."

After saying that, Dai Yue and Shi Zai Zai, while Bai Ze Changmu had a somewhat puzzled expression, spoke to a dozen or so silent subordinates standing in two teams behind them.

"Remember the training you received earlier, now equip yourself and prepare for action."

As soon as the words fell, the two teams of men stepped forward, skillfully opened the boxes, took out various equipment, and began to arm themselves.

Baize Masamune, who had just been shouting that he wanted to take action, was so stunned by the scene in front of him that he was speechless.

Because he found that Dai Yue and Shi's men took out not only new rifles, pistols, grenades, and bulletproof vests from the boxes...

He even put on a personal night vision goggles on his helmet, which he had only seen in magazines.

It seemed that his big brother was not going to launch a gang fight, but a small-scale modern night street fight.

Bai Lai Changmu asked in a trembling voice, "Big...Big brother, didn't we agree that my brother would go first?"

"Haha, let professionals do the professional things, and your people can just finish it later."

After Dai Yue and Shi Yan finished speaking, they raised their hands to look at their watch, and said to their subordinates who had already completed their equipment.

"The power goes out at 11 o'clock, so do it quickly."

I’m sorry, I had planned to update last night, but I was asked to go out for dinner with a friend. I haven’t participated in any extracurricular activities for a long time, and I was too embarrassed to refuse. Then I accidentally drank too much, went home and fell asleep, and since then I haven’t been able to update.

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