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   Chapter 277 Wool

   Thanks to a certain industry famous for benzene in Japan, it is estimated that tourists who come to Japan want to experience something like Ginza, Custom Street or hot springs. After all, this is an industry that accounts for 1% of the total daily benzene revenue.

   But Song Yang glanced at Gallo and ignored this guy. Today, Song Yang dares to go to these places with Gallo, and it is guaranteed that tomorrow will be on the hot search list of the global technology industry, and it may not be a sensational global news....

Softbank is staring at them, eager to get some news for Song Yang, and even Eric is talking to LB Group about the acquisition of Victoria's Secret. Even RICK is transforming and wants to whitewash, what about Song Yang? Destroy your reputation.

   This time, Song Yang was going to China for the first time, and he didn't want to go to China in the face of a scandal. It's hard to say what his reputation will be in the future, but now Song Yang still wants to have a face.

  The business plane landed at Tokyo Airport, and the people from SoftBank were already waiting below. There were no media or reporters, which shows how the status of the Internet industry in Japan is now, and it is estimated that it is no better than the stick.

   "Mr. Bruno, I'm Yabo Inoue, I represent SoftBank and President Masayoshi Son, welcome everyone to Nippon!"

The one who came to greet Song Yang was Yabo Inoue who had negotiated with Yahoo in America before. Facing Song Yang, Yabo Inoue was a little angry. If Song Yang hadn't interfered with it, Yahoo! would have been established now, but now, Song Yang stabbed the bar horizontally, making the project of Japanese Benz Yahoo completely stagnant.

   Song Yang looked at Yabo Inoue who was bowing in front of him. The anger in his eyes was strong, but he didn't care much. Song Yang was a clear **** to Nippon Yahoo. How could Sun Zhengyi and Softbank stand against him? !

In America and Silicon Valley, Song Yang still has to weigh the people from Netscape and Microsoft, but he is out of Silicon Valley. Song Yang is also one of the leading figures in the global Internet industry. It may be difficult to clean up Yahoo, but So cleaning up a Yahoo branch in Japan, wouldn't that be easy?

  You're welcome to say, I really want to disgust Yahoo and Softbank, Song Yang has the means to let Benzene Yahoo get the project, and it's completely yellow!

   "I'm also looking forward to meeting the president of your company, Masayoshi Son!"

  Song Yang couldn't see Yabo Inoue's hypocritical tactics, so he didn't bother to shake his hand, so he led someone into the car, obviously both sides had already used knives, and they were still bowing, Song Yang didn't want to be stabbed in the back.

Yabo Inoue, who was left on the sidelines, had a look of embarrassment on his face, but he didn't dare to get angry with Song Yang. Even if he was dissatisfied, Yabo Inoue who had been to Silicon Valley, understood that Song Yang was in the American Internet. Influence.

Now it looks like a broken bamboo. Yahoo, which is invincible in Silicon Valley, has really met Song Yang. Inoue Yabo feels that he may not be able to resist Song Yang. Last year, Song Yang dared to stand up to the first-generation Internet overlord Netscape. At that time, Song Yang might not have the strength now.

And now, if it wasn't for being targeted by the Trade Commission, Inoue Yabo felt that Song Yang's worth would have soared by a lot. Judging from the number of users alone, Song Yang's ICQ plus Hotmail, antivirus software Forita, etc. , the number of users accounts for almost half of the global Internet industry...

   They didn't stay in the hotel arranged by Softbank, Song Yang and the others chose another international hotel.

   Along the way, Gallo, Wesley and others, who were in Asia for the first time, looked at this city with a completely different style from America.

Song Yang didn't pay too much attention to it, he just looked at the scene on the street, from the pedestrian costumes, cars and storefronts on the street, it was indeed one of the best cities in Asia, but Song Yang didn't care too much about these. , in a few years, across the strait, there will be a wave of modern cities that do not belong to the land under their feet.

   What attracted Song Yang's attention was another kind of storefront that appeared endlessly on the streets. On the streets of Tokyo, the ones that appeared the most were not convenience stores, supermarkets, bookstores, etc., but another kind of thing, billiards!

   These pinball rooms with slot machines and pinball machines are decorated in different ways. Some are simple and just hang a sign, and some are decorated in luxury stores. At the entrance, there is a pinball room by a cool-dressed girl.

  Although the decoration is different from the brand, but on the way from the airport to the city, whether it is a remote suburb or the city center, there may be no convenience store or toilet, but there is definitely a billiard room.

  Song Yang had heard the name of the Japanese Benzene Ballroom, but this was the first time he saw this scene. On the way alone, he saw no less than a hundred marbles houses.

  Irene noticed Song Yang's gaze and looked outside. She didn't know anything about billiard rooms, so she just watched Song Yang keep looking at those storefronts, "What's so special about these storefronts?!"

  Song Yang glanced back at Irene and pointed to the billiard room outside, "That's the billiard room, you can understand it as the Las Vegas of Japan!"

  Irene was surprised to see billiards of different sizes appearing every few hundred meters on both sides of the street. I wonder how these small stores can compare to Las Vegas.

Seeing Irene's eyes in disbelief, Song Yang said, "Last year, there were more than 10,000 billiards in Japan, and people in Japan and Southeast Asia spent more than 240 billion dollars in billiards last year. Knife!"

Irene opened her mouth wide and looked outside in surprise. She didn't know if there was a problem with her ears, or if Song Yang was wrong. What is this concept? Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, America, Enough to make money, but the billiards room she had never heard of was thirty times the annual revenue of Las Vegas.

This has completely subverted Irene's impression of this place. Nippon is boasting that the gambling industry is prohibited. As a result, 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. Earn a lot in a year!

The practitioners of the entire Pinzifang, including these stores, pinball machine manufacturers, etc. combined, have surpassed the practitioners in the automotive industry, the pillar industry of Nippon, and the profit of Pinzifang last year exceeded 60% of the full-day benzene revenue. %, just don't get too crazy.

  Song Yang pursed his lips, and suddenly turned around and said to Irene, "What do you think of letting Xue Leshan enter the Japanese marble house business?"

After    finished speaking, before Irene could speak, Song Yang laughed first, as if he was just joking.

  Irene, who is familiar with Song Yang, knows that Song Yang is not joking. Xue Leshan's main business is the game business. It seems that it makes sense to let Xue Leshan enter the billiard room.

But Irene knows that this matter is by no means that simple. The billiard room can be grown up in Japan, just like Las Vegas. It is absolutely impossible to say that there are no gangs and congressmen behind the scenes. .

   "This matter will not be that simple. If Xue Leshan enters rashly, there may be problems!" Irene said to Song Yang.

"I know!"

  Song Yang shrugged and said, but a dead Taoist friend is not a poor Taoist, Song Yang doesn't care whether the Japanese Benz people will be destroyed by the billiards, and even playing more crazy, Song Yang is 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 off the car, Song Yang said to Irene, "Maybe, someone in America would be interested in the billiards industry here!"

Song Yang will not charge himself into the battle with his own head. There is a lot of involvement in Niben's billiards. Most of the people who manage and operate these billiards are from the stick, and even the councilors are consultants in the billiards industry. Think about it, if you don't know it, if you plunge into it, I am afraid you will be smashed to pieces.

   But, as the suzerain country of Japan, if the congressmen of the suzerain country are eyeing this piece of fat, should these local snakes be allowed or denied?

   This matter is not urgent. Back then, the level of madness in controlling Las Vegas was no less than that of getting the billiards now. In the end, it was slowly controlled by Howard Hughes.

As long as the members of the Elephant Party and the Donkey Party can be pulled in in America, and black water security can enter, in the future, we will master the Japanese marble pool and double the size of the marble room in Japan. possible.

Song Yang took the    billiard room in his heart, and it might take some time to prepare for it to start.

After    came to Tokyo, people from Song Yang immediately began to investigate the Internet industry in Japan, and the results were a little surprising.

  The Internet technology of Japan Benzene is actually not weak. After all, there is a suzerain country, but the application of Internet technology in Japan Benzene is unexpectedly slow.

In America, after Song Yang developed the web version of Hotmail, e-mail has become popular in major companies in just over a year. Although fax machines are still in use, the utilization rate of e-mail has not Has completely surpassed the fax machine.

   As one of the first to start electronic office, Japan, who started to use computers, fax machines and printers in the 1980s, does not seem to be keen on entering the Internet era.

Hotmail also entered Japanese benzene last year, but now there are not more than 100,000 users. Except for foreign trade companies, other companies seem to be not enthusiastic. This is not as good as the stick next door, stick The Hotmail users over there are much larger than those over there.

   Not only Hotmail, Double-click, ICQ, and even Netscape, 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 dismay. Whitman looked at the hastily collected information, frowned and analyzed, "This is indeed an emerging market, but for "Tradition" seems to care a lot, they are unwilling to change their original life and office habits!"

After Song Yang saw the information, he just glanced at it and then threw it aside. Compared with America, Nippon seemed to have no desire for the Internet, not to mention the emergence of an Internet company that wanted to develop this film. The market is not so easy, but Sun Zhengyi, who is most familiar with here, may have some means.

   "Let's go to Softbank first!" Song Yang said, this time, the main reason for coming to Japan is to get the equity of Japan's Benzene Yahoo, so he will buy SoftBank's wool first.

   (end of this chapter)