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Life
of Okami's “Strenuous Efforts”
---Steps
to the Opening of The website---
7.
At the Time of Delusion
When
I explained my situation to Mr. Nakagawa, he invited me to his office
sometime.
His
office was SOHO office which occupied a whole floor of a building
in the center of Ginza 4-chome. I visited his office after I had quit
the company for which I had been working for.
I
was taken to the neatly arranged guest room , and waited for Mr. Nakagawa.
He appeared shortly and said to me, “ Let's have a meeting with
Mr. OOfrom
JT and President of OOTrading
Company. They'll come here shortly”.
Their
meeting was about laying the foundation for a certain big company.
An owner of a pachinko-parlor wanted to make use of a certain project
for as tax avoidance. For that, Sony- Building could be reused by
tying with some car company. Their meeting was too big a scale for
a business – talk.
I
had no knowledge of the details of the talk. But I was in the meeting
with administrator and executives of the companies. I had a funny
feeling about myself being in the business talk. Many discussions
were conducted by the members as if I'd been drown into some kind
of a big whirlpool.
Mr.
Nakagawa was a man who had innovative ideas and pursued these ideas
to make them succeed in the field of the management of a candy industry.
His idea had been realized more than twenty years ago before the world
‘Business Model' did not exist.
He
was asked to give the consultation for management from various business
organizations and was always surrounded by many people and in the
environment where the effective information was around.
I
was usually at home preparing for the start of a new business. The
preparation included looking for seminars on a business and its feasibility,
reading books on a business creation. I usually studied at a library.
I also collected useful data.
My
day went by quickly. Along with the day-to-day study, I visited Nakagawa
Office to catch a glimpse of development of various businesses.
Having
looked back, what I had made me useful was not an acquisition of business
know- how, but an influence I was given among people and their positive
talk
about
tomorrow. They made me keep my will move forward.
When
one is in the width of perplexity, not finding what to do, one would
be apt to get depressed and lose confidence of oneself. But I was
able to make myself up and keep maintaining my energy enough to free
from solitude.
At
that time I was offered a job as a secretary for a professor of a
certain university.
But
I did not take it from a fear that I'd never had a chance to have
a new take-off when the time was running out short.
Thinking
back of these days , I was in the severe mental pain . You'd hopefully
understand how one suffers when one is in a tunnel not knowing where
the exist would be at. You may cry for help, but in vain. I wasn't
paid any attention to by anyone at all then. I was not wanted by anyone.
My
husband said, “ You'll be sure to find a job if you wish, so go
ahead and get out in the world and set to work”. I wasn't really
understood by him, but at least I was lucky as he didn't force me
to be at home. I am sure, to look back, I would have found find my
way to move on because I didn't give up.
Even
now I feel very thankful for Mr. Nakagawa, my benefactor at that time.
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