Chapter 14



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Shima and Irene were in the office and Irene was asking him about his belief that his wife might be cheating on him. He reiterated it and even showed her a divorce notification he brought with him "just in case" though she reminded him that it'd be pretty unfair and hypocritical if he just launched into a divorce out of the blue given his justification for his own infidelity. Just as they were about to get a little more intimate, Oizumi walked in and called Shima to his office. After chewing him out a bit over what he saw, he informed Shima that Hatsushiba America won the top prize for the ad they'd submitted which was great because the foreign subsidiaries never win them so both his and Shima's standings would rise.



Shima couldn't help but reflect on the fact that he was profiting from the work of other people and so decided to head to a Japanese restaurant that seemed to have a lot of big shots and celebrities that would come in. There, he helped a Japanese woman waiting for someone shut down the advances of some guys hitting on her. And the person she was waiting for just turned out to be Oizumi who, having been caught fooling around himself, decided call the whole thing even. Shima and Irene the went to the top of the Empire State Building to read Kogure's letter about Shima's wife. He said that he saw no evidence that she was seeing another man and that she'd been attending an alumni gathering when Shima had briefly come back. But of course, that turned out to be a lie as Kogure didn't have the heart to tell Shima the truth, that his wife was indeed cheating on him, but Shima decided to go with it for now even though he himself knew it wasn't true.

Yo, OP.

The funny part about this is that IIRC Harlem is heavily gentrified now. The combined white and hispanic population is actually higher than the black population which has been shrinking for a long time.

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hahahahaha what the fuck am I reading

That's all for now. Next time, Shima and crew solve racism.

>hahahahaha what the fuck am I reading

It's revealed just before Shima leaves that the Jew was running a scam with the black guys. Presumably they pretend to mug a guy, Jew comes in and saves them which leads to him trying to get sex out of the person in gratitude. At least that's how I figured it.

that just makes it better

>>251452373 (OP)

Thanks for posting, OP.

Based.

Poor guy is trying but failing to break the conditioning. 





I think it's some sort of pastiche of every 70's american movie ever, the mugging scene felt like it was lifted from death wish.

hahahaha

FWIW Hirokane did go to places for research and this is still mid-'80s NYC. But yeah, probably exaggerating for dramatic effect as well and as a means of driving home his broader point and the general culture shock between homogenous Japan and multiethnic America.

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>Hirokane did go to places for research

Really? That's more effort than I expected. I guess it shows in the work though.

You can tell it is America because there is trash everywhere.
