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Ojou-sama’s Daily Life Part 6
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In the social world, a party is a battlefield.
However, fundamentally, a little girl like me isn’t dragged out.
The fact that I have to make an exception for something that I basically don’t do means that I’m the odd one out even in the Keika house.
In the Keika Hotel in Shinjuku.
The original name of the hotel was Far East Hotel, but as a result of separating out the non-performing loans, it has become a hotel group that owns large hotels here in Shinjuku, Tokyo, as well as in Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Sendai, Kobe, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, Hakodate, Sapporo, and resorts in Hokkaido, Karuizawa, and Okinawa.
In addition, the company was developing Kurokawa Onsen and Yufuin Onsen as new resorts of a lesser scale due to the elimination of non-performing loans.
The party room is located on the top floor of the hotel.
It was a party on the top floor of the hotel, and it was the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Keika Group.
“Although it’s just the greeting at the beginning, it would be of great help if you participated.”
As I was looking at the invitation to the Keikain’s party in the waiting room, Tachibana respectfully told me the conditions for my attendance.
Tachibana said that all I should do was stand there, but in short, it must mean that the main branch of the family could no longer ignore me.
After all, thanks to the hard work of Tachibana and the others, my assets have become rather large.
Anyone could find out how much I had with just a little digging.
By having me make my debut in the social world, I guess they wanted to use it as an opportunity for the main branch to interfere in such matters.
“That’s fine, I guess, but they didn’t tell me that I had to stay till the end, right?”
“Yes. The head of the family had assured me that all you needed to do was to say your greetings and go to your seat, and then you could go home.”
In short, this was my debut, a ceremony in which the main branch would forgive my father’s errs.
The sooner I got this kind of pardon the better.
“Excuse me. Tachibana-san, you have two guests here to see you.”
“Well now. What are their names?”
When Tachibana replied back to Keiko-san, who brought the report, she read out the business cards of each visitor.
“Constitutional Political Friendship Party, Minister of Finance Izumikawa Tatsunosuke’s secretary, and fellow Constitutional Political Friendship Party, Chief Secretary, Katou Kazuhiro’s secretary.”
The reason why these secretaries came to Tachibana’s office was because Tachibana was ostensibly seen as holding the real power, and they probably wanted to build connections.
These secretaries came to Tachibana’s office not only to make an appointment, but this was also a prelude to the Diet Member himself coming out.
In a certain sense, it was only natural that the Minister of Finance would ask me to join him because of the bad loan problem involving Keika Bank, and Kato-san, the Secretary General of the Board of Trustees, whose election supporter-base was in Sakata City, where my father tried to establish his foothold.
These two are members of the same faction, with Diet member Izumikawa as the boss and Diet member Katou as the second in command, and there is some talk that Katou is pressuring Izumikawa to retire for the sake of generational change.
“I wonder if I should call them shrewd or people with no principles……”
“Elections cost money, you know. The next year’s House of Councillors election is also a decisive battle for the ruling party to improve their power. I think they want to have us on their side to make sure everything goes well.”
Both Minister Izumikawa and Secretary General Katou have been mentioned as candidates for the next prime minister, so the question is which one should I choose?
“Since money’s involved, I wonder if it would be bad if we bet on both sides?”
“It’s not bad, but both sides might think that we’re not on their side.”
If you look at Japanese political thought and factions only from the perspective of socialism or liberalism, you’ll experience some pain.
There is a geopolitical distinction between continental and maritime factions, which is easier to understand, and on that basis, there are claims of socialism and liberalism.
On the Sea of Japan side, there are many continentalists due to the long history of relations with the continent. 1
On the other hand, as an ally of the U.S. after World War II, the maritime faction has been the mainstream, and all political parties in Japan are generally divided between the continental and maritime factions.
In this sense, Diet member Izumikawa can be categorized as an oceanicist, while Diet member Katou can be categorized as a continentalist.
The reason why Diet member Katou was stronger than Diet member Izumikawa was because he had the support of the Hashizume Faction, the largest faction of the Constitutional Party of Political Friendship at the time, known as the “Legion”, that dominated the political world in Japan.
“Well, you know, they’ll be interested in me once I’ve made my debut. Make sure to be ambiguous and that they don’t hate me too much.”
“Certainly.”
This exchange with Tachibana was held a bit before the party.
There was a knock on the door of the waiting room that had been assigned to me.
“Who is it?”
When Aki-san, who was following me, tried to check the other side of the door, the other person called out.
“Excuse me. I’m the secretary of Katou of the Constitutional Party of Political Friendship, who greeted you earlier. Katou would like to greet Ojou-sama.”
The chief secretary of the Constitutional Party of Political Friendship, Katou, entered with his secretary, full of vitality, as if he was at the height of his power.
He looked at me with a somewhat deeply moved expression, then made eye contact and greeted me.
“Nice to meet you, Ojou-sama. Your father has done a lot for me. Please allow me to apologize for not being able to help your father.”
After he said that, he bowed to me, who was still a kindergartener.
I wonder if this was his way of atonement.
For not being able to save my father.
“No. Please raise your head. I’m the one who should be bowing.”
The chemical plant construction project that was the source of the scandal had the backing of the prefectural and municipal governments, and he, as a member of the Diet, must have been working behind the scenes.
What my father had done was tantamount to smearing the faces of those people.
“Children don’t get to choose their parents. I’m going to make amends, so don’t worry.”
What I meant by making amends here was, in other words, I gave him my promise that I would take out some funds.
Upon hearing this, chief secretary Katou left with a look of relief on his face.
It seems like he’s planning to show up at the party as much as possible.
“Are there any public projects in Yamagata Prefecture that would stand out right now, I wonder?”
Tachibana told me that the construction of the Shinjo extension of the Yamagata Shinkansen had just started, and that the Keika Bank was among the group of banks that were financing the construction. 2
It is said that Keika Bank has joined the group of banks that are financing the construction of the extension, a project that has been underway since the days of the former Far East Bank.
Now that Far East Bank has been replaced by Keika Bank after a major merger with twists and turns, and the disposal of bad debts is accelerating, there have been concerns in the prefecture that the bank might pull out of the Yamagata Shinkansen construction project.
That’s why the chief secretary, the man at the height of his influence, took the trouble to come to lower his head and confirm the situation.
“Contact Ichijo. Tell him to inform the bank to tell the prefecture that we will continue to finance the construction of the Yamagata Shinkansen. If the bank can’t do it, tell them we’ll use the Moonlight Fund.”
Where money is gathered, people will flock.
The party hadn’t even started yet.
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Again. Something to report.
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In a certain sense, it was only natural that the Minister of Finance would ask me to join him because of the bad loan problem involving Keika Bank, and Kato-san, the Secretary General of the Board of Trustees, whose election supporter-base was in Sakata City, where my father tried to establish his foothold.
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A few lines before we had established that the name of the second guy was Katou, not Kato.
That’s all for now. Thanks for everything.