I am a literary giant in Japan

Chapter 263 The whole world is helping Teacher Beichuan!

"Of course!"

The president of Shinchosha was overjoyed and immediately replied,

"If Mr. Tanizaki needs it, any issue of Shincho, any page, any length, can be made available to you immediately!"

After hearing what Ichiro Tanizaki said, the group of people below also smiled with joy.

After Kitagawa Hideichi defeated two "world's best" writers, Arima Yoshiyoshi and Hyakuta Naoki, in succession, when asked who in the current Japanese literary world could surpass Kitagawa Hideichi, the only person they could think of was Tanizaki Ichiro.

If Mr. Tanizaki is willing to come out and put an end to Kitagawa Hide's arrogance and suppress Kawade Shobo, the new dragon that has just raised its head, it would be a great thing for them.

"Well I'll write a letter to Kitagawa Hide first."

Ichiro Tanizaki did not make a complete statement. He had read Kitagawa Hide's novels and recognized Kitagawa Hide's creative ability from the bottom of his heart.

If the other party is willing to honestly gain experience and mix in the circle, he wouldn't even mind passing on his legacy to him a hundred years later.

But if Kitagawa Hide and Kawaide Shizuko insist on going their own way and want to be the most special people in the circle, he will not tolerate them.

Let's try to use courtesy first and then force, and see how they perform afterwards!

Within a few days, news that Ichiro Tanizaki might make a comeback spread like wildfire in the Japanese literary world.

Some people were facing a formidable enemy, some were ready to take action, some were just watching from the sidelines, and more eyes were cast on Kitagawa Hide. Everyone was curious about how he would respond.

At present, Shinchosha and Ichiro Tanizaki himself have not released the accurate information, but the source of the gossip is Takeda Tsunekazu and his son, and a number of literary giants such as Ichiko Sadatsu have not come out to "refute the rumor", which means that the credibility of the news is extremely high.

This makes people more certain that the "number one in the world" is really going to take action to deal with the challenger who has disrupted the order of the literary world.

They were curious whether Kitagawa Hide would face the challenge head-on like he did the last two times and fight to the death with the "world's number one" Tanizaki, or would choose to quit while he was ahead and avoid a confrontation with the number one figure in Japanese literary world.

Unfortunately, ever since Kawaide Shobo announced that he would lead a large number of writers to withdraw from the Japan Literary Society and publicized the society's scandals everywhere, Kitagawa Hide has been hiding at home. No one knows what he is doing. Reporters from several major newspapers came to visit him, but were stopped at the door by Yumeko herself.

The gossip tabloids then began to spread the word that Kitagawa Hide "cowarded the battle" and tried to whitewash the Japan Literary Society and confuse the public.

However, their behavior had just begun, and Shizuko Kawaide let them see what a chaebol is!

What is domineering!

Any newspaper or publishing house that dared to discredit Kitagawa Hide and whitewash the Japan Literary Society received a notice of acquisition from Kawaide Shobo the next day.

After the acquisition, Shizuko Kawaide did not tolerate those people. She directly paid a large amount of compensation and fired the boss and all the employees at once. She also threatened the industry that whoever dared to continue to employ these people would be against the Kawaide family!
On these matters, Shizuko Kawaide has already spent hundreds of millions of yen, and it seems that she will continue to spend, which also allows others to see Kawaide's confidence from the side.

When her father, Kawade Akira, was in power, the Kawade family was just a lower-middle-class conglomerate. Now, two years have passed, and the Kawade family has probably firmly become an upper-middle-class conglomerate!
If you think about it carefully, in 95 and 96, Kitagawa Hide at least created a net profit of over 100 billion yen for Kawaide Shobo. The Kawaide family itself has an investment team to manage its finances, so it is no problem for them to generate another tens of billions from the 100 billion in two years.

Shizuko Kawaide's enthusiasm to invest two years' profits in this matter discouraged many people, and they no longer dared to take orders from the Japanese Literary Society to whitewash themselves.

On the other hand, the scandal surrounding the Nobel Prize in Literature nominees quickly fermented in Japan through the Internet, and many citizens who originally did not care about the current situation in the literary world also joined the discussion.

Because the Nobel Prize in Literature is extremely well-known, even ordinary people who don't read novels have heard of it. So the popularity of this event surpassed many major news in just a few days and became a hot topic that people discussed on the streets.

Now the Japanese Literary Society can only repeatedly emphasize that "the list of recommenders will never be made public, so all the so-called shady dealings are just rumors."

Anyway, the list of recommenders has been sent to the Swedish Academy. After that, the members of the Swedish Academy will screen the list of nominees, and then the Nobel Prize in Literature Selection Committee will select the final winner.

This process will be kept secret from the whole world, and the list of nominees will be kept sealed for 50 years. As long as they insist that they have not leaked the list of recommenders, the comments on the Internet can only be "rumors."

Unless Naoki Momota wins the award or is included in the final list of nominees, the truth will be revealed.

But by then, would it matter whether a mere Kitagawa Hide was recommended or not?

If Naoki Hyakuta hadn't won the award and wasn't on the list of nominees, and you wouldn't know who the recommended Japanese writer was, the society would still be able to "stick to its guns".

This is also the main reason why Ichiro Tanizaki chose to wait and see - things have not yet reached the point where they cannot be resolved.

While the scandal surrounding the nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature continued to ferment, Shizuko Kawaide and her colleagues were not idle either. They took advantage of the popularity to vigorously promote the first issue of "Wenyi" in the new year, vowing to seize a share of the pure literature market with the help of the revision.

Reina Saito led the editorial staff to work overtime day and night. After hearing about what happened to Mr. Kitagawa, everyone was filled with indignation. More and more people worked overtime and worked very hard, never slacking off.

Seeing this situation, the big boss Shizuko Kawaide was also very generous. She simply waved her hand and allocated an additional budget of 5000 million yen to the editorial and distribution departments, and mobilized all employees and their families to vigorously promote the product in their respective circles.

The members of the Dongda Kitagawa fan club who are about to graduate have also returned offline. The silly Chizuru Hui has covered her dessert shop with the latest "Wenyi" posters and asked the staff to tell every customer about the Nobel Prize scandal.
With the tacit approval of Professor Osamu Takeuchi, Tomoyo Kobayashi, in her capacity as a graduate student in the Faculty of Literature and the head of the Tokyo University Haiku Research Group, publicly promoted the matter to her junior classmates, and gathered hundreds of Tokyo University Kitagawa fans to march and demonstrate in Sakyo Ward. In recent days, more and more college students have responded to the call, and the marching team was even interviewed and broadcast live by a TV station.

Seeing that all the universities in Tokyo were about to fall, the Ministry of Education finally could no longer sit still. The then Director of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Nobutaka Machimura, strongly called a halt to the parade, but at the same time, he issued a statement in the name of the Ministry of Education criticizing the shameful scandal of the Japan Literary Society.

Although the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology could not really stand by Kitagawa Hide's side and support him due to its stance, Machimura Nobutaka did not mention a word about the dark side of the Nobel Prize, nor did he stand up for Tanizaki Ichiro and others to refute the rumors. Instead, he seized on the exposed black material and launched a fierce attack. The attitude of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology can be seen from this.

In addition, the attention of all sectors of society to this matter is also increasing rapidly.

From the Prime Minister's Cabinet, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors' Office, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and the big names in the Japanese literary world, to bank employees, local police officers, barbecue stall bosses, bookstore managers, and even JKs from girls' high schools, they all stood up to support Kitagawa Hide and questioned the Japanese Literature Society. On the evening of January 1th.

Before the handwritten letter written by Ichiro Tanizaki was delivered to Kitagawa Hide, the Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS, which was eager to watch the fun, inserted a special talk show into the prime time at 8pm.

Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS, backed by the Japanese government, is the only one of the six major TV stations that is not afraid of death - the other TV stations are controlled by well-known newspaper consortiums, and they are just the mouthpieces of the consortiums. At this time, they usually pretend to be dead and dare not wade into muddy waters.

A group of popular male and female stars were invited to participate in the talk show. This time, Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS spent a lot of money and directly invited Takuya Kimura, Shizuka Kudo, Izumi Sakai and Hiroshi Nagano, who became extremely popular in the special effects circle with the role of "Daiko".

Four handsome men and beautiful women sat in their seats. The host came up and said, "Good evening, everyone. Since everyone is a household name, there is no need for meaningless self-introductions.
How about we get straight to the point?”

The four people who were invited had been informed of the content of the interview in advance, but at this moment they were all in dramatic form, nodding and smiling, as if they had no idea what would be asked next.

"So today's interview question is, what do you think about the Nobel Prize in Literature scandal that has been hotly debated online recently?" The host held a small card in his hand. Even though he knew the question in advance and rehearsed it many times, his palms were still soaked with sweat when he asked it in front of the national audience.

This is a fatal question that could ruin your career if you are not careful!
If the station hadn't insisted that she be the host, she would have refused it completely!

These four big stars dare to accept any invitation. If they fail to handle a talk show like this, it will ruin their careers that they have worked so hard for!
But she heard that after receiving the notice, these four people did not hesitate at all and took the initiative to ask their agents to be interviewed.

"Shizuka-chan, what do you think?" The host called out Shizuka Kudo's name in turn.

Kudo Shizuka smiled and said without hesitation: "I think this is true."

At this time, Tetsutaro Mori, who was sitting in front of the TV watching the talk show, was completely shocked by what Kudo Shizuka said!

After hearing the news a while ago, he, who had always been fearless and willing to take the lead in the literary criticism circle for Mr. Beichuan, became timid.

When I was with Teacher Beichuan in the past, he would confront the "best person in the world" without any fear.

But the big boss this time is Mr. Ichiro Tanizaki, and the incident involved is the shady scandal of the list of nominees for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which concerns the reputation of the entire Japanese literary world.

He really didn't dare to take the lead in speaking nonsense.

Therefore, he has been just standing by recently, occasionally posting small updates to support Teacher Beichuan, and has not yet gotten involved in this quagmire.

I didn’t expect that at this moment, a group of celebrities in the entertainment industry would be the first to risk giving up their future and come out to support Mr. Kitagawa!

The person being interviewed at this time is Izumi Sakai, who is always seen as very well-behaved and pure by the public.

Since becoming famous, Izumi Sakai has not had any negative news.

It is said that her private life is simple and clean, not like that of a big star. She is a real breath of fresh air in the entertainment industry.

And this girl actually shouted directly into the microphone, into the camera, and into the faces of tens of millions of viewers across the country: "Teacher Beichuan, I believe in you! Those who treat you unfairly will definitely be punished!"

The host and several others did not expect that Izumi Sakai would suddenly act out of the ordinary, and the scene suddenly became very chaotic.

Everyone knows who treated Kitagawa Hide unfairly, but the problem is that no one dares to mention it, let alone say it in public.

No matter how popular Izumi Sakai is, she is just a female singer with a nice voice and is still controlled by capital. This reckless behavior has basically ruined her future singing career!

"Damn it! I can't keep hiding like this!" Without saying a word, Mori Tetsutaro called his girlfriend who was studying at university and gave up the tempting idea of ​​practicing the Kun character technique with her tonight.

He turned on his computer and began to quickly collect posts on the Internet, using them as references, preparing to write a shocking literary review to support Mr. Beichuan!

On the literature section of the Yahoo Japan forum, "Height 1.7 meters, legs 1.2 meters long" posted another explosive "troll post" a few months later. In the post, she first used photos of her legs to attract traffic, and then used indescribable Zuan dialect throughout, which was very ugly.

Fortunately, Internet supervision is lagging behind and the newly drafted Internet bill has not yet been implemented, so she can do this without being punished.

The owner of the Yahoo Japan Forum also understood traffic, and he kept her post at the top of the headlines for several days until he was solemnly warned by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and then quietly removed it from the headlines.

There are also many ordinary people who were once persecuted by Aum Shinrikyo and later revived with the help of the "Isai Takuya Foundation" and spontaneously posted Kawaide Shobo's promotional posters in schools, communities and trams across the country, striving to let everyone see this and speak up for Mr. Kitagawa.

The most outrageous is the Sumiyoshi-kai.

Shigeo Nishiguchi actually removed the neon lights of Kabukicho in Shinjuku, which had not changed for decades, and replaced them all with the name of Mr. Kitagawa.

I heard that when I went to the custom shop there to experience life recently, customers had to say one of Mr. Kitagawa’s works before they could enter the shop!
Some remote cities, such as Okinawa and Izu, which were helped by Kitagawa Hide, also used the most eye-catching fonts at various tourist attractions to support their idols.

It seems that people from all walks of life across Japan are spontaneously speaking up for Mr. Kitagawa.

In comparison, the explanation of the Japanese Literature Society seems very pale and powerless.

The key point is that they can only use the Nobel Prize rules to appease the public and cannot produce any other evidence to prove their innocence.

That night, Kitagawa Hide, who was unaware of these things and was concentrating on thinking about what new book to write, received a letter from Tanizaki Ichiro, but before he had time to open the envelope, he received an international call from overseas.

(End of this chapter)