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069 Naoki Prize

The importance of summer Kaziyuan to the Japanese is no less than that of the Super Bowl to the Americans. In order to hold the events during the Summer Kaziyuan finals, the Hanshin Tigers, as the home team of the venue Hanshin Kaziyuan Stadium, had to be arranged for a series of away games during the event. Even Japanese society has a special name for the events during this period - "Death Travel". The origin of this title is very simple, because the Hanshin Tigers will inevitably have a sluggish record when they arrive.

As such an important event in Japan, the main broadcasters of Summer Kakoyuan are NHK and Asahi TV. The owner of Asahi TV and the main organizer of Summer Kakoyuan have close equity ties. Therefore, Asahi TV will naturally produce a series of related programs during the Summer Kakoyuan, and among them, "Quick Report! The Road to Kakoyuan" and "Hot Fighting Kakoyuan" are naturally the best among them.

In Japan, the combination of sports and entertainment circles is very high, so Asahi TV will also select so-called "co-working songs" during the summer Kaziyuan period. For example, Arashi's "Summer Wind" and Coku Cola's "Diamond" are all collaborative songs. Of course, some people translate them into the theme song of Summer Kaziyuan. But in fact, the official theme song of Summer Kaziyuan should be "Rongguan Shining for You (大可に只只)". This theme song has been used since 1948, and even on the day Lin Junxiu traveled, the status of this song is impossible to shake. However, every year Asahi TV Network will cooperate with one or two popular artists to select collaborative songs for "Quick Report! The Road to Kaziyuan" and "Hot Fighting Kaziyuan".

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Lin Junxiu's idea is very simple. If he can get the cooperation plan for Asahi Taiwan, the song he paid for was the collaboration song "Still up the work (あとひつ)" created by Funk Monkey Baby for Asahi Taiwan in 2010. Although this song did not win the championship position on the Ori Credibility List and sales only exceeded the "golden record", this song has a high status in the baseball circle. Not only after it was published, people will use this song to make videos for their beloved baseball team every year, but the song was also selected as the official promotional song by the Japanese professional baseball Pacific League team Northeast Lotte Golden Ghost Team. Moreover, the inspirational lyrics of this song are also in line with Lin Junxiu's personal character and are also a song that is conducive to his promotion.

Just as Koishi Takaki took Lin Junshui's instructions and single DEMO to Asahi TV, Lin Junshui also appeared at the Naoki Awards ceremony. The Tokyo Empire Hotel has always been the most signature and most facade hotel in Japan, and it was once a state guesthouse of the Japanese government, so it was also very respectful to award the Naoki Award and Akutagawa Award here. This is equivalent to telling the young and old men in Japan who love literature that as long as we can get our recognition, you can come to this most high-end place in Japan to receive your debut award. Look, your debut awards are so well-known, and you will be successful in the future.

After Lin Junxiu arrived at the venue, Yoshihiro Isoshima immediately came over and stayed with Lin Junxiu. In the Japanese cultural and creative circles, editors and creators basically have a cooperative relationship of "both loss and prosperity". Therefore, as long as they do not offend the fundamental interests of the publisher, the editor basically stands on the creator's side, and can even be regarded as the "agent" who wears the author.

As one of the major awards in the Japanese literary circle, there are many publishers and literary managers who come to participate in the Naoki Awards ceremony, and they are all of them at the same level of seniority. In the past, authors who have won the Naoki Awards will basically attend as long as they are not immovable or are abroad, which is considered a thankfulness. So for all the nominated new novices, there are too many bigwigs on this occasion. If there are no editors who have been in the literary world for many years to give tips, they may not offend anyone.

Japan is a chaebol society, and the publishing industry is no exception. The entire Japanese publishing industry is basically dominated by four major families, such as the Ichihashi Group of the Soga family, the elementary school library that is familiar to Chinese readers, and the Shueisha that split from the elementary school library, and the Shirazumi Club are all subordinate publishers; in addition to the Noma family, the Oshiba Group, which is dominated by the group. In addition to publishing houses such as Kotanshe and Komotoshe, there is also the music publishing company of King Records. AKB48 and its sister group have many records that are responsible for the distribution; the rest are the Kakugawa Group of the Kakugawa family, the Kakugawa Group of the Sato family, which is relatively familiar to everyone, and the Xintide Group of the Sato family. The Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House is one of the few independent publishers in Japan that have survived well, but the publishers also know that their business is not that good.

Although Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House also has publishing brands such as "Wenchun New Books" and "Wenchun Book Library", it has also published many books by authors of Naoki Awards and Akutagawa Awards, but most of the authors who are famous under Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House will eventually choose publishers under the four major families. For most Japanese authors, Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House is just a springboard. However, Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House has a strong ability to make blood-making, so it has not been sucked to death by the four major families.

However, even so, Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House still hopes to retain Lin Junxiu this time. After all, Lin Junxiu is an author with its own sales. As long as Lin Junxiu does not do anything "idol disqualification" in the entertainment industry, his sales will be basically guaranteed. Moreover, Lin Junxiu's current creative ability has not declined, but has also greatly improved, which makes the publishing house very optimistic about his later period. There is not a case where a popular author supports a publishing house in Japan, so Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House basically trained Lin Junxiu as a "pillar" reserve for training.

"I didn't expect that there were so many things in the literary circle." Lin Junxiu followed Ishima Yoshikazu and finally hid in the lounge next to her for a while. Originally, it was impossible to arrange a lounge according to Lin Junxiu's status, but now he is the biological son of the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House. As the literary revitalization association raised by Literary Spring and Autumn, he naturally has to treat Lin Junxiu very well. However, this lounge was not made public, and only the people around Lin Junxiu knew it.

"There is no way, this is the actual situation in Japanese society." Ishima Yoshihiro Isama understands what Lin Junxiu is complaining about. "Speaking of this, special authors like Lin Jun are very rare in the Japanese literary circle. Japanese writers are either brought in by teachers or come from literary departments of major universities. If writers like Lin Jun are mostly slowly getting up from circles such as functional novels and light novels."

Japanese people are not rejecting functional novels, and there are many in-depth novels that criticize social reality every year, so the mainstream Japanese literary circles have even more favorable feelings for functional novels than light novels and mobile novels.

"If Naoki Awards can finally win this time, the book "4TEEN" will be sold for about another month. In April, we will arrange for "White Night Walk" to be released."

"I am not very familiar with the publishing and distribution situations, so please contact Ishima editor and Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House for these things." Lin Junxiu will not interfere with the judgment of professionals. It is better to leave the circles he is not familiar with to professionals to handle.

"Mr. Lin, it's almost time for the award ceremony, and it's time for us to go out," Isoshima Hiroyasu reminded.

Lin Junxiu followed Hirohiko Ishima to the venue, which has now been arranged as an award ceremony. As a candidate for awards, Lin Junxiu naturally sat in the front row with other candidates. There was a large open space between the rostrum and the audience seat, and the photojournalists of the graphic media sat cross-legged here to take photos; and the audience seat was also a high platform, and the photojournalists of the TV station were shooting the whole audience. Since this can be regarded as a grand event in the Japanese literary world, not only did NHK arrive, but the core stations of the five major civil service stations and other cable stations and overseas media stations stationed in Tokyo also attended.

First, the chairman of the Literary Revitalization Association reviewed some developments in the Japanese literary world last year, and then the Secretary-General announced the five works that were finally nominated and their comments. Finally, the winners of the last Naoki Award came on stage to announce the winners of the Naoki Award. At this time, the originally calm expressions on the faces of the major nominees began to become serious.

Generally speaking, although the Naoki Award is a newcomer award, because the Naoki Award has a special definition of newcomer authors, the nominated candidates for the Naoki Award are usually not real novices in the literary world. The Naoki Award defines newcomer authors as the author who publishes personal single-books for the first time. Therefore, if the author who only published works in a magazine is still a newcomer author in the Naoki Award, everyone's mentality is better than that in the Akutagawa Award. But when it is actually announced, everyone's heart is still nervous.

"Lin Junxiu, "4TEEN", Literary and Art Spring and Autumn Publishing House!" Soon, the winner was announced.

When the reporter heard the name "Lin Junsoo", the audience immediately became turbulent. Lin Junsoo not only broke the record of "the youngest winner" of Naoki Award, but also made him a favorite of the media.

"I'm very happy to win the Naoki Award. Thanks to the judges and the Literary Revitalization Association for their recognition and commendation for me." Due to the hint from the organizing committee, Lin Junxiu naturally wrote the relevant award words early.

Lin Junxiu's winning words are stable, but this is a very good performance for the "rules-abiding" Japanese society. Even though Japanese society tolerate the crazy and unruly of literati, they still hope that they can let themselves go within a certain range of rules. Lin Junxiu grasped this balance well. Although his award-winning debut work "4TEEN" also revealed the darkness of Japanese education and Japanese society, fortunately, Lin Junxiu did not over-criticize, so although the work is profound, it is not cruel, so its reputation and sales are good.

After confirming that Lin Junxiu won the Naoki Award, both Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House and Johnniez Firm sent media press releases to the media that were closely related. At the same time, Wenyi Chunqiu Publishing House also launched the last wave of large-scale publicity for Lin Junxiu's winning work "4TEEN". Theoretically, unless Lin Junxiu can win a higher-level literary award, "4TEEN" as Lin Junxiu's debut work will be mentioned again, which may bring another wave of sales. Otherwise, "4TEEN" will have to be sold slowly on a long-tail basis. In addition to the promotion of "4TEEN", the review and proofreading speed of "White Night Walk" has also been accelerated.

Lin Junxiu, who was at the venue, finally understood what it means to be famous in the world. Although the prizes and prizes of the Naoki Award are not good, the blessings this award brings to the author are too strong. At the cocktail party after the award ceremony, Lin Junxiu almost became the biggest prey pursued by major publishing houses. Since Lin Junxiu was underage, she could only bring a glass of juice to thank the big guys.

After walking around the venue, Lin Junxiu was holding a thick stack of business cards in her hand. These business cards were not only editors from Xinchao Club, Kadokawa Bookstore and other publishers, but also producers of TV stations and radio stations. Why do TV stations and radio stations also favor Lin Junxiu? Because Japanese TV stations or radio stations produce several confidant radio writers, responsible for writing program copywriting and scripts for them. Many writers will transform into radio writers when they cannot survive in the literary world, and then slowly transform from radio writers to television people. Lin Junxiu is planning to pave the way for himself in the future, so she did not reject them.

"Isn't this our cute Lin Jun? Congratulations to you in person for winning the Naoki Prize." Just as Lin Junxiu found a corner to relax, a voice rang behind her head.

"It turned out to be Sonoda Sang. I haven't seen each other for a long time." Lin Junxiu saw that it was Sonoda Shizuka, the owner of Sukiyabashi Club. Speaking of which, the aunt also helped her to do a lot of publicity, so Lin Junxiu bowed and greeted her.

"Mr. Lin is just too young, so I would give you a VIP card for our club." Sonoda Shizuka smiled.

"When I become an adult, I will definitely go to the Sonodasan club to support me." Lin Junxiu smiled and played Tai Chi with her. None of these old ladies who have become the upper class in Japanese society are simple.

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