The Shekou Industrial Park is operating at a breakneck pace, with everyone working together with one heart and one mind to get things done quickly and efficiently.
But at this moment, on the other side of the sea, in Tokyo, Japan.
It can be said that the entire Japanese industry suffered a devastating blow. Why did Japanese electronics not have any accidents at home, but frequently have problems overseas? It even directly smashed the image of the entire Japanese industry to its lowest point.
Naturally, despite attempts by Japanese electronics brands such as Sony, Mitsubishi, and Hitachi to cover it up, the impact has been enormous.
Multiple Japanese departments quickly organized investigation teams to trace and investigate the patents for these electrical appliances involved, and arrested relevant individuals involved in the case.
In an interrogation room at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, there was Nakamura Yasuji, who had been raised by Chinese people but then returned to Japan like a traitor, and who was proud of his Japanese bloodline.
He was like a mangy dog that had been beaten and was afraid of being beaten, curled up on the cold iron chair.
Sitting opposite him were two prosecutors from the Special Investigation Department with rather stern expressions, as well as several senior investigation officials from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan.
On the table were several rice cookers of various brands, all disassembled into pieces, and a thick stack of alarming accident investigation reports from overseas.
"Nakamura Neji!"
The prosecutor slammed his fist on the table in anger, startling Nakamura. "According to our investigation and repeated confirmation by our technical department, the so-called 'instant cooking' rice cookers produced under your company's patent license have caused 1,342 household fires in various countries in just the past three months! This has caused extremely negative social impact! You're practically committing murder!"
"Now, the reputation of the entire Japanese manufacturing industry is tarnished because of you! The officials at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry are furious. You must honestly explain where these technologies with fatal design flaws came from. Did they come from a research institute in our country? Or did you have someone develop them yourself? We have investigated you; you are a World War II orphan who grew up in China. Are these actions your own personal actions, or is there some deeper meaning behind them?"
These past few days, Nakamura Neiji has been on the verge of a breakdown. He can't understand why the quick-cooking rice cooker, which works fine in Japan, keeps malfunctioning in Europe and America.
He cried out in a sob, accusing himself of wrongdoing: "Officer! I've said it so many times! I didn't design it! How could I have that ability! I bought it!"
"Bought?"
An official from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry scoffed, clearly disbelieving. "Where did you get this from? As far as we know, all the well-known domestic appliance manufacturers buy your patents. Where else could you have gotten this from? Where could you have bought such technology? Was it from an American company or a European company?"
"No...not those big companies..."
Nakamura Neiji swallowed hard, and said somewhat guiltily, "It was...it was from China...from Northeast China, from a young man in a rural area! His name is Lin Huowang! He sold me these flawed blueprints! He did it on purpose! He left a backdoor in the blueprints! I know now, it's all a conspiracy and a scam, he's a complete fraud!"
"Baka yarou!"
Upon hearing this, the officials were so enraged that they slammed the folders they were holding into Nakamura Neiji's face, yelling, "Do you think we're fools? Huh?"
"Is it that rural youth from Northeast China again? Did you guys already coordinate your stories beforehand? Did you foresee this day before it happened? So you deliberately found a rural youth from China that we can't verify to take the blame?"
China's industrial capacity and design are so backward. Let alone a farmer in a rural area of Northeast China, even China's scientific design institutes cannot do it.
Do you think we're brainless? Could a farmer design this semi-automatic temperature-controlled magnet? Could he design that double-spiral fan motor? Even though they have flaws, the design concepts are incredibly advanced! And you're telling me this was drawn by a farmer on his kang (heated brick bed)? Do you think the judge will believe that?
"Fine! Even if he designed it, where's the evidence you gave me?!"
The prosecutor spread his hands and ruthlessly threw a document in front of him: "We reviewed all the documents you applied for the patent at the time. In the 'inventor' column, you clearly wrote your name, Nakamura Yasuji! At the press conference, you confidently told all the media that this was a Japanese technology that you had 'painfully developed'! It was the wisdom passed down through your Nakamura family!"
"Now that this has happened, in order to shirk responsibility, you've actually conspired to fabricate a Chinese farmer to take the blame? Don't you have any sense of Bushido or shame? You've utterly disgraced our Great Japanese Empire!"
"I...I..."
Nakamura Neiji was so frustrated by the prosecutors' rebuttals that he was at his wits' end, scratching his head in frustration.
Honestly, he's absolutely kicking himself now.
In order to monopolize the reputation and profits, save on patent fees, and prevent others from getting a share, he deliberately destroyed all the initial agreements with Lin Huowang as soon as he returned to Japan, and packaged all the technology as his own original creation.
It can be said that his selfishness led him to fall completely into the trap that Lin Huowang had set for him, a trap that would leave him without any descendants.
If the product is flawless, he is the father of Japan's fast-cooking rice cooker, earning huge licensing fees through patents and receiving countless thanks and praise from housewives—a true win-win situation of fame and fortune.
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