"At the beginning of the year, you reminded me to watch the publicly available financial information from Southeast Asia. When I got back, I had my family pull all our wealth management products and funds out of there. Looking at it now, we really dodged a bullet." Nakagawa Jun jabbed a finger hard against the tabletop. "But over at our major shareholder, Nikkei, and at several major banks closely tied to us, they're practically playing dead! They haven't made a single move! They haven't even done any conservative protective hedging!"
As he spoke, Nakagawa Jun could not help raising his voice, his anger burning with frustration at their failure to live up to expectations.
"The internal bureaucracy is too bloated, too rigid! Soros and his lot are stirring up storms in Southeast Asia right now. The Thai Baht is about to collapse, and blood will flow like rivers! Yet these bankers are still dreaming of peace, thinking the fire won't reach their own doorstep. Things will probably get ugly later. There'll definitely be no shortage of bad debts, and when the time comes, they'll have plenty to cry about!"
Nakayama Takuya smiled, his posture relaxed.
"Dad, what they do is their own business. You can't overstep your bounds and influence those bank executives' decisions anyway. Fine words cannot persuade a ghost bent on dying." Nakayama Takuya set down his teacup, a shrewd glint flashing through his eyes. "Rather than that, why not make good use of the resources we have? Like that report on the gaming industry last time—gather and consolidate all the publicly available information on the market, then produce an in-depth analysis for TV Tokyo's professional financial audience."
"Lay out the situation in Southeast Asia, Soros's movements, and the possible impact on Japan's banking industry, plain and clear.