Back To 1995: Chapter 277 Pull wool
Chapter 277 Pulling wool
Thanks to a certain industry that is famous in Japan, it is estimated that tourists who come to Japan will want to experience something like Ginza, Custom Street or hot springs. After all, this is an industry that accounts for 1% of the total revenue of Japan.
But Song Yang glanced at Gallo and ignored this guy. If Song Yang dares to go to these places with Gallo today, he is guaranteed to be on the hot search list in the global technology industry tomorrow, and it may not be a global news....
Softbank is eyeing it, eager to make some news for Song Yang, and even Eric is talking to LB Group about the acquisition of Victoria's Secret, and even RICK is transforming, wanting to clean up, what about Song Yang Will go to self-destruction.
This is the first time for Song Yang to go to China, and he doesn't want to go to China with a scandal. It's hard to say how his reputation will be in the future, but now Song Yang still wants to have face.
The business plane landed at the Tokyo airport, and the Softbank staff were already waiting below. There were no media or reporters. This shows that the current status of the Internet industry in Japan is probably not as good as that of Bangzi.
"Mr. Bruno, I am Masahiro Inoue, on behalf of Softbank and President Masayoshi Son, welcome to Japan Benzene!"
The person who came to welcome Song Yang was Masahiro Inoue, who was negotiating with Yahoo in America before. Facing Song Yang, Masahiro Inoue was a little bit angry. If Song Yang hadn’t been a hindrance, Yahoo would have been established now. But now, Song Yang intervened horizontally, bringing the Japanese Yahoo project to a complete standstill.
Song Yang looked at Masahiro Inoue who was bowing in front of him, with suppressed anger in his eyes, but he didn't care too much. Song Yang was a bright grab for Japan's Yahoo. What can Sun Zhengyi and Softbank do against him? !
In America and Silicon Valley, Song Yang still has to weigh Netscape and Microsoft, but out of Silicon Valley, Song Yang can be regarded as one of the leading figures in the global Internet industry. It may be difficult to clean up Yahoo, but What the **** is taking care of a Yahoo branch in Japan? Wouldn't that be handy?
To put it bluntly, if Yahoo and Softbank are really disgusting, Song Yang has a lot of means to let Japan Benz Yahoo get the project, which is completely dirty!
"I am also looking forward to meeting your company's president Masayoshi Son!"
Song Yang didn't like Masahiro Inoue's hypocrisy. He didn't even bother to shake hands with him. He directly took people into the car, and bowed there even though both sides had already been stabbed. Song Yang didn't want to be stabbed in the back.
Masahiro Inoue, who was left on the sidelines, was full of embarrassment, but he didn't dare to get angry with Song Yang. Even if he was dissatisfied, he had been to Masahiro Inoue in Silicon Valley, and he understood Song Yang's role in the American Internet. Influence.
Now it seems to be invincible. Yahoo, which is invincible in Silicon Valley, has really met Song Yang. Masahiro Inoue feels that he may not be able to resist Song Yang. Last year, Song Yang dared to fight the first generation of Internet overlord Netscape. At that time, Song Yang didn't have the strength he has now.
And now, if it hadn't been targeted by the Trade Commission, Inoue Masahiro felt that Song Yang's worth would have soared a lot. Judging from the number of users alone, Song Yang's ICQ plus Hotmail, anti-virus software Fortigate, etc. , the number of users accounts for almost half of the global Internet industry...
Instead of staying in the hotel arranged by Softbank, Song Yang and the others chose an international hotel.
Along the way, Gallo, Wesley and others, who were in Asia for the first time, looked curiously at this city with a completely different style from America.
Song Yang didn't pay too much attention, he just looked at the scene on the street, from the costumes of pedestrians, cars and storefronts on the street, it is indeed one of the best cities in Asia, but Song Yang didn't care too much about these In a few years, a large wave of modern cities that do not belong to the land under their feet will emerge across the strait.
What attracted Song Yang's attention was another kind of storefront that appeared endlessly on the streets. On the streets of Tokyo, the most common ones were not convenience stores, supermarkets, bookstores, etc., but another kind of thing, a pachinko room!
These pachinko rooms with slot machines and pinball machines are decorated in different ways, some are shabby and just hang a signboard, and some are luxuriously decorated, and there are billiard rooms with cool-dressed girls standing at the door.
Although the decoration is different from the brand, on the way from the airport to the urban area, whether it is a remote suburb or the city center, there may be no convenience stores or toilets, but there must be a billiard room.
Song Yang had heard the name of Japanese billiard room, but this was the first time he had seen this kind of scene. On the way alone, at least he saw no less than a hundred billiard rooms.
Irene noticed Song Yang's eyes and looked outside. She didn't know anything about the billiard room. She just watched Song Yang keep looking at those storefronts, "Is there anything special about these storefronts?!"
Song Yang glanced back at Irene, pointed to her the billiard room outside, "That's the billiard room, you can understand it as Japan's Las Vegas!"
Irene was surprised to see billiard rooms of different sizes appearing every few hundred meters on both sides of the street. She wondered how these small shops could be compared with Las Vegas.
Seeing Irene's unbelievable gaze, Song Yang said, "Last year there were more than 10,000 billiard rooms in Japan, and people from Southeast Asia spent more than 240 billion US dollars on billiard rooms last year." knife!"
Irene opened her mouth wide and looked outside in surprise. She didn't know if there was something wrong with her ears, or Song Yang made a mistake. What kind of concept is this? Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, America, It was enough to make money, but the billiard room she had never heard of was thirty times the annual revenue of Las Vegas.
This has completely overturned Irene's impression of this place. Japan is bragging about banning the gaming industry, but it turns out that the game should not be too big. Even if all the most famous casinos in the world are added up, there may not be a billiard room. Make a lot of money in a year!
The practitioners of the entire pachinko room, including these stores, pinball machine manufacturers, etc., have surpassed those in the automobile industry, the pillar industry of Ribend. Last year, the pachinko room earned more than 6% of the total revenue of the day %, don't go too crazy.
Song Yang pursed his lips, then suddenly turned his head and said to Irene, "What do you think about letting Xueleshan enter the Japanese billiard room industry?"
After finishing speaking, before Irene could speak, Song Yang laughed, as if he was just joking.
But Irene, who is familiar with Song Yang, knows that Song Yang is definitely not joking. Xueleshan's main business is the game business. It seems to make sense for Xueleshan to enter the billiard room.
But Irene knows that this matter is by no means so simple. The billiard room can be big in Japan, just like Las Vegas. It is absolutely impossible to say that there are no gangsters and MPs behind it. .
"This matter will not be that simple. If Xueleshan enters rashly, there may be problems!" Irene said to Song Yang.
"I know!"
Song Yang shrugged his shoulders and said, but if you don't die poor friends, Song Yang doesn't care if Japanese people will be destroyed by the billiard room. Even if you play more crazy, Song Yang will be extremely happy.
The key is that this is an industry with huge profits. As long as you can get in, you can get huge cash flow every year.
The car stopped in front of the Hilton Hotel in Tokyo. When getting out of the car, Song Yang said to Irene, "Maybe there are people in America who are interested in the billiard room industry here!"
Song Yang doesn't know how to charge forward on his own. Japan's billiard room has a lot of involvement. Most of the people who manage and operate these billiard rooms are people from Bangzi, and even the councilors are consultants for the billiard room industry. It is conceivable that if you don't know it, if you plunge into it, you may end up in pieces.
However, as the suzerain country of Japan and Benzene, if the masters of the parliament of the suzerain country are eyeing this piece of fat, then these local snakes, should they let it go or not?
This matter is not urgent. The madness of controlling Las Vegas back then was no less than that of the billiard room now, and in the end it was slowly controlled by Howard Hughes.
As long as Congressmen from the Elephant Party and the Donkey Party can be recruited in America, and the Blackwater security can enter, in the future, it may not be impossible to master the billiard room in Japan and double the size of the billiard room in Japan possible.
Song Yang kept the matter of the billiard room in his heart, and it may take some time to prepare for this matter to start.
After arriving in Tokyo, the people on Song Yang's side immediately began to investigate Japan's Internet industry, and the results were somewhat surprising.
Japan's Internet technology is actually not weak. After all, there is a suzerain country, but the application of Internet technology in Japan is unexpectedly slow.
In America, after Song Yang developed the web version of Hotmail, e-mail offices have become popular in major companies in just over a year. Although fax machines are still in use, the usage rate of e-mail is Has completely surpassed the fax machine.
As the first to start electronic office, Japan started to use computers, fax machines, and printers in the 1980s. It seems that they are not keen on entering the Internet era.
Hotmail mailbox also entered Japan last year, but now there are not more than 100,000 users. Except for foreign trade companies, other companies seem to be not keen on it. This is not as good as the next door, Bangzi. The scale of Hotmail users over there is much larger than that of Nippon.
Not only Hotmail, but Double-Click, ICQ, even Netscape, and Microsoft IE browsers have not developed very well in Japan.
This phenomenon caused Irene, Whitman, Xie Qing and others to look at each other in blank dismay. Whitman looked at the information hastily collected in his hand, frowned and analyzed, "This is indeed an emerging market, but for "Tradition" seems to care very much, they are not willing to change their original living and working habits!"
After Song Yang saw these materials, he only took a few glances and threw them aside. Compared with America, Japan seems to have no desire for the Internet, let alone Internet companies appearing. They want to develop this area. The market is not so easy. On the contrary, Sun Zhengyi, who is most familiar with this place, probably has some means.
"Let's go to Softbank first!" Song Yang said, the main purpose of coming to Japan this time is to get the equity of Yahoo!
(end of this chapter)