Rebirth: Japanese investor

   Chapter 324 The Poor

   As time goes by, more and more people gather in the bars and shops in Manila. Old, young, one person came, three or five people came in groups.

  The female clerk interspersed with delivering towels, delivering drinks, delivering this or that kind of thing. Filipino female clerks working in bars in Manila can send 100,000 yen a month to their hometown when business is good.

   If the bar business is deserted, it will be unknown. I also need to live, and Tokyo's consumption level is high, and it is also world-renowned and world-class.

  They work six days a week, while Manila bars are open nineteen hours a day. If you come during the day, no more than 6 pm, the cost of personal consumption will be halved.

  Kishimoto Masayoshi and others were drinking, and various topics were still going on. Among them, there are many people who have high self-esteem and feel that even if they are in a civilian Manila bar, they are completely different from the taxi drivers and other people who come into the store to consume.

   This is like some shogi players who feel good about themselves and always think that they are higher than those who play mahjong and do not know that there are N levels.

   They have a soul and the ability to think independently, but those people are just a group of people with boring souls, boring lives, undisturbed, mediocre, and even living without knowing why.

   At the same time, Kishimoto Masayoshi turned his body sideways and stretched out one ear to eavesdrop on the conversation of the crowd in the booth next to him. In his mind, there is absolutely no such "dirty thought of a literate person" that arises in his head.

   People with different occupations have different lives and experiences. Even if he was a rich second generation in his previous life, he didn't mean to look down on the poor at all. In this life, he was a high-ranking economic emperor and chaebol, and he still did not mean to look down on the poor.

  A middle-aged and elderly taxi driver is also a human being. Even if the personal life is not very satisfactory, it is greatly better than these Filipinos in Japan.

   Even if they are naturalized in Japan, they will also be subject to various discriminations from the current mainstream society. Their children are often the easiest and the first to be bullied in Japanese schools, and if they let them go back to the Philippines, it will never be less.

   For this reason, they are powerless. Is it difficult to really take the children back to their hometown in the Philippines? That is absolutely impossible.

   Even if they wanted to, the children who were bullied would not. They are all like mirrors, stay in Tokyo, no matter how hard and tired, even if they live in a slum, they will have no problem with food and clothing.

   After returning to the Philippines, it will be another unbearable situation. The poor Filipinos living in Manila's slums regard a type of garbage fried chicken called "PAGPAG" as an alternative delicacy.

   What is "PAGPAG"? It is a kind of meat that is classified from the junk food poured out of fast food restaurants such as McDonald's and KFC, that is, the fried chicken that others have not eaten, or the leftovers.

   There are a lot of dirty things like phlegm on them. A special person conducts an artificial classification in a place full of maggots and flies, and manually removes the remaining meat from the chicken bones.

  If you come across a more complete one, you will leave it for the people in your own family to eat. Then, they sell the meat to small traders who specialize in processing it into "PAGPAG".

   The small traders who sell "PAGPAG" reprocess the meat and sell it to the poor who need it. Even if the poor who bought "PAGPAG" knew exactly how they bought meat, they would still buy it because of the word "cheap".

  Many people got sick after eating "PAGPAG". Even so, it did not stop the poor in Manila's slums from pursuing it.

  Whether it is self-comfort and deception, or sincere ignorance, they all agree that it is not the fault of "PAGPAG" itself, but that it has not been handled by others.

   For this reason, Masayoshi Kishimoto can't help but think of Jack London's non-fiction work "Dwellers of the Abyss". He really wrote about the conditions and ways of life in the slums of London's East End in 1902.

   The most vivid memory of Kishimoto Masayoshi is that Jack London attached a household expense account in the book, which most intuitively reflects the tragic situation of low-paid living.

   Not only that, but the working hours are long and even unstable. This is not enough to eat and wear warm, and it is also commonplace. Even being in the army is better than living in East London.

Bernard Shaw once said that the soldiers appear to be heroic and patriotic defenders of the country on the surface, but in fact they are the unfortunate poor people who will put their own Give your body to be cannon fodder.

   This is like when China was backward, the economy was poor, and the people were greedy for meat, and even the pigs that died of disease, the meat would be completely red, would buy and eat.

   However, in an objective comparison of the two, the poor in the slums of Manila in the Philippines are much worse. It is not an exaggeration to describe their living conditions with scraps.

  The people at the bottom of Japanese society, as soon as they reach middle age, many people begin to live alone lives. It's not that they like it, but there is a kind of helplessness in their hearts.

  In Japan, people who are engaged in the profession of taxi drivers are generally middle-aged and elderly. They will come to the Manila bar after the shift, just to squeeze out the loneliness in their hearts and find a spiritual harbor where they can dock.

   They don't need to know who Kenji Miyazawa is, what great masterpieces he has written, and how good the works are, for them, it doesn't matter at all.

   This can neither bring them the most direct increase in economic income, nor can it comfort them spiritually and spiritually.

  Only in places like Manila bars can they find their spiritual and spiritual solace from the female clerk. This is the spiritual enjoyment they want.

   Located in the northern suburbs of Tokyo, Takenozuka in Adachi Ward, there are more than 50 small bars run by Filipinos like Manila Bar.

  Although Adachi Ward is also one of the twenty-three wards in Tokyo, it is a valley with one of the three major slums in Japan, and there are many delinquent youths. The average house price in this area is the lowest in Tokyo. This can be regarded as an "isolated island on land" in Tokyo, and it is often ranked at the bottom of the twenty-three wards.

   is Hirokazu Kore-eda's "The Thief Family" that won the Palme d'Or at the 71st Cannes Film Festival. It not only shows the audience the dark side of Tokyo's glamorous beauty, but also exposes various problems and contradictions in Japanese society.

   The background of the story of this movie is at the junction of Arakawa and Adachi. Even if Arakawa Ward is also one of the twenty-three wards in Tokyo, it is a marginalized area.

  The Arakawa district in the Edo period was a farmland. Beginning in the Meiji era, many factories were built using the water from Arakawa, thus promoting the development of industrialization.

   Today, the sense of existence is very low, and there is not even a commercial area like Akabane, which is more worthy of the word "huang" in his name.

   (end of this chapter)