Chapter 636 – Extreme

Masayoshi Kishimoto patiently spent an hour or so with Rie Sakai inside the small living room on the second floor, and finally managed to sing the song of the Hard Gold Group of Companies is not too out of tune.

“Today, let’s stop here!” Masayoshi Kishimoto said as he poured a glass of whiskey and held it in his hand.

Rie Sakai didn’t have to insist that he sing the song completely off-key, after all, it was something too unrealistic. It wasn’t like it was the first day she had met him.

Sakai Rie sat on top of the couch and said, “Yanai Masashi from Uniqlo sent an invitation. Inviting us to go to Uniqlo’s new product launch together.”

“Yanai Masayoshi and I are both old acquaintances as well as a forgotten friend. He is a Japanese man who can do one thing to the extreme.

If there is another man in the world who can do something as well as Yanai Masayoshi, I’m afraid it’s the American Howard Schultz. He is the founder of Starbucks.

If you go, I won’t go.” Masayoshi Kishimoto was holding a whiskey glass in his right hand in his mind, thinking that this was going to be a rather difficult year for Uniqlo.

In the August 2002 final accounts period, Uniqlo, which had been enjoying amazing sales and profit growth, had suffered its first reduction in revenues and earnings since the company’s IPO.

There was a time when he was thinking of competing with Masayoshi Yanai for the position of Japan’s richest man. Then he realized how naive he had been.

How could the real richest man in Japan appear in the public eye? As a member of the top class, such a person would always exist in the world like a cloak of invisibility, but with unfathomable strength and influence.

Even if Yanai is becoming the richest man in Japan, or even in Asia, he is not really the richest man in Japan or Asia.

Japan’s economic lifeline is mainly controlled by the six major zaibatsu, not Yanai Masayoshi’s Uniqlo. A clothing seller, even if the profit is big, can be bigger than selling arms, oil, etc.?

Not to mention the fact that unlisted companies are not required to publish annual financial reports. In Japan, there are many unlisted family-owned private companies.

Sakai Rie seldom heard from his mouth inside the recognition and praise of others, “Is not it, you are not a man to do one thing to the extreme?

Your Hard Gold Group is much larger than Uniqlo’s assets. You are a man who is recognized as a Hard Gold Zaibatsu by the Japanese financial community, and Yanai Masayoshi is not.”

Masayoshi Kishimoto took a sip of the whiskey inside his glass and said, “I belong to diversification, not monolithic. Furthermore, having money and doing something to the extreme are two different things.

Some of those Japanese craftsmen who are regarded as national treasures, who didn’t take one thing to the top of their game. However, they were not all rich. It’s still mostly about earning a reputation and a social status as a jobber.

Yanai Masayoshi was able to make Uniqlo, a clothing brand, globally recognized, and that is remarkable. Howard Schultz making Starbucks globally famous is equally remarkable.”

“Are you really not going to go? Or do you already not see Masayoshi Yanai? Or are you already planning to acquire his Uniqlo?” Rie Sakai said casually.

“I can’t guarantee that I’ll actually buy Yanai Masashi’s Uniqlo.” Masayoshi Kishimoto without fail felt that at this time of the year is really able to have a bottoming out opportunity to buy a large number of Uniqlo’s shares Dao.

“Really, fake?” Sakai Rie couldn’t believe that her original thoughtless remark had turned out to be true Dao.

“When it’s true, it’s false, and when it’s false, it’s true, so it’s up to you to distinguish the true from the false.” Masayoshi Kishimoto chuckled.

Sakai Rie saw that he wasn’t telling the truth to himself, so she didn’t try to get to the bottom of it, after all, it was a business secret involved. She knew what to ask and what not to ask.

She herself was the one who wanted to establish a house rule in the Kishimoto family that the women of the Kishimoto family were not allowed to ask about the men’s business matters on top of their business.

“Since you don’t want to attend Uniqlo’s new spring launch this year, then it’s only necessary for me to do it for you. I didn’t eat the Kishimoto family’s rice for nothing.” Rie Sakai said bluntly.

“Say it like you’re not a member of my Kishimoto family. If you don’t want to go, you can just not go. It’s also true that you’re pregnant and there are inconveniences.” Justice Kishimoto calmly said.

“Whether a woman is pregnant or not, she is still interested in fashion. Even though Uniqlo follows the popular route, there is no question of it having any negative impact on me.

As you said earlier, we’re kind of old friends with Yanai Masayoshi. I remember when I was still in college, I held a New Year’s Eve concert with Mr. and Mrs. Yanai Masayoshi.

And even earlier, Mei-Ling and I went to the opening of Uniqlo’s first flagship store in Harajuku, Tokyo. It’s only right to go and show our support as a matter of course.” Sakai Rie said slowly.

Masayoshi Kishimoto sat down on the side beside her and said, “The fact that you still remember these old events not only shows that you are a woman who remembers old times, but also a woman who values love and justice.”

“The good that others have done to you is certainly something to keep in mind. The bad things you’ve done to me, I’ll also remember you for the rest of my life, for the rest of my life.” Sakai Rie habitually rolled her eyes at him is, and also erected her right index finger and said.

“Where did I treat you badly?” Masayoshi Kishimoto said knowing that she was subconsciously starting her daily fight with herself again.

“You said, where did you treat me badly?” Rie Sakai asked back.

“I was the one who asked you first. How did it become you asking me?” Masayoshi Kishimoto said as he kicked the ball she kicked at him back to her.

“It was clearly me who asked you first, okay?” Sakai Rie pursed her lips and said with intentional unreasonableness.

“Was it? How come I don’t know. Do you always like to lie to me because you think I’m easy to lie to?” Masayoshi Kishimoto followed her example and did an Inuyasha juggle, hitting the nail upside down and said.

Sakai Rie raised the small fists of her two hands and pounded them down towards his body, pretending to be angry as she said, “Don’t you dare to learn from me.”

“I’m learning to sing after you, so I’m learning your nonsense along with you.” Masayoshi Kishimoto laughed.

“You’re clearly spitting blood. I’m not the one who’s being disruptive. Even if I did, it was only for you. You should know how to be content.” Sakai Rie said forcefully.

“Then do I still have to be grateful to you with a thankful heart? According to the logic of your mind, because you love me, that’s why you’re being petty with me.” Justice Kishimoto said joyfully.

“That’s right, you’re so smart.” Rie Sakai then laughed as well and said.

“Why am I so unlucky?” Masayoshi Kishimoto said as he laughed more and more cheerfully.