Chapter 87 Lonely, Cold
In the dark night, Junhei Yokoi sat alone in his study room at home.
The living conditions in Japan are not very different from those in China. For example, the houses of Nohara Shinnosuke's family, the one-family houses are often not the most expensive and best houses in Japan.
Even in a territory like Tokyo, it is already the cheapest type of house.
Although a house is not a few floors, the total area that can be used on the whole building is less than 100 square meters, and sixty or seventy square meters is the most common situation. Even if there is a garage, the size of the garage is often not a full-size garage, but just enough to put an economical car down.
This is also why in Japan's automobile market, you will find another thing that is completely different from the whole world.
That is Japan's automobile market. The types of micro cars and ultra-small cars often have inexpensive prices and interiors comparable to luxury cars.
This is completely unimaginable in other countries.
Even when car reviewers from other countries were still evaluating this small car in Japan, they said how excellent Japan is in the automobile industry and how good the automobile culture it has.
That's not the case at all!
It’s just that most people in Japan have small parking spaces, and there are no parking spaces in big cities that are not allowed to buy cars.
Those who want to buy a car with only a small parking space can only buy such a car.
Even these families who buy cars have fewer opportunities to go out to drive.
Because they have no place to park, although some people think it is a ridiculous thing to find reality from fantasy works, but don't forget that the source of any fantasy works is reality.
There are not many scenes of driving out in the comic "Crayon Shin-chief" or in the animation.
Why not many?
It's because they can afford a car but can't afford the parking fee.
If you drive every day when commuting to work, Hiroshi Nohara's monthly salary is not as high as the parking fee. The parking fee for a few months is enough to buy another car.
In Japan, except for the real large and single-family mansions, the small multi-story buildings are only for ordinary people.
Even these houses are not intended to live permanently, but use a cheaper wooden structure.
Of course, some people say that this is because Japan is a country with frequent earthquakes, and the wooden structure is easier for people inside to survive.
However, buildings with steel and cement can be achieved by using high seismic resistance.
Of course, this is more expensive and more expensive, so naturally it cannot be afforded.
The place where Yokoi Junhei lives is a high-rise apartment in Kyoto.
There are no poor people living in this apartment.
This is a large flat apartment with a total of 300 square meters on the first floor.
Compared with those small single-family houses, this is definitely a luxury house.
Moreover, people who own these apartments often have full-size garages underground.
Due to Japan's trade protection policy, it is particularly high for imported cars to go abroad.
Therefore, most of the cars seen in these places are mainly domestic high-end cars.
Of course, it is actually just a barely matched imported cars.
Although Japan's automobile industry has been hitting the high-end.
But almost only Toyota's sub-brand in recent years, Lexus has established recognition in Japan that is almost the same as that of German luxury brands.
In a well-known comic, there was a classic line, "Deutsche's number one in the world!"
Although it's just funny, Japanese people have a strong sense of mechanical identity with the Germans.
You should know that during World War II, the Japanese-made dots tanks were only small toys compared to German tanks.
Although Japanese cars have accumulated over many years of technology and are no longer inferior to foreign brands, they are still inferior to those of foreign brands in the minds of Chinese people.
Toyota improves users' recognition of Lexus through luxury brands, driving texture and class.
Honda, on the other hand, attempts to achieve excellent results by going to Europe to compete, defeat old-fashioned strong players, so that domestic and foreign consumers can recognize their own brand of cars.
Now Toyota has succeeded, through automotive culture and various "soft power".
While Honda is still on the way, he is trying to succeed with "hard power".
Living in such a place where luxury cars can be parked, Yokoi Junhei was not happy. Why was he not happy? The reason is very simple.
Because he was upset that no one understood him.
Although President Hiroshi Yamauchi is still supporting him, how long will this support last?
No matter which leader of the development department is around you, after working together for so many years, are there no feelings?
He believed in the abilities of these people, but he also believed in his own vision.
He believed that he would succeed, but, is it really possible?
He now doubts himself.
The ship is in trouble.
He and his first development department are now a big ship. They have set sail and they have no way to turn around.
Only when he continues to do it, he has the opportunity to make the next hardware. Otherwise, if he retreats this time, who else will support him?
Even President Hiroshi Yamauchi won’t have support.
Today, there was a R&D task, but he refused. He returned home and stared in a daze in the study alone.
He is a man with a family, with a wife and children.
However, he had a bad relationship with his wife and children.
He is over fifty years old this year. It can be said that almost all his youth and most of his life have been dedicated to Nintendo, to President Hiroshi Yamauchi who was able to be hit by the small toy he made during his work but was not angry, but instead took a keen eye for him.
Yokoi Junhei certainly felt that he had a superior and a subordinate, but he also had a sense of father and son.
That's right, it's the father and the son.
The so-called minister, the minister.
Yokoi Junhei sometimes feels that he is a soldier under President Hiroshi Yamauchi.
Wherever the president asks him to go, he will go wherever he wants.
Now that the game boy is at a loss, he has to charge himself again.
Looking at the lonely moon outside the window, Junpei Yokoi felt a little lonely and cold.
He put down the teacup in his hand and looked at the moon in the sky, hoping that the sky would give him some inspiration.
However, the moon can talk?
A person should be so arrogant that he thinks that such a huge star will change something for his insignificant fate.
Yokoi Junhei, who didn't believe anything, looked at it for a while, shook his head with a laugh. He was really...
Chapter completed!