Hello everyone, it's time for "Tao Brother Blind Vernacular", today I will talk to you about a legendary uncle - Kiyoshi Kimura.
How legendary is it?
Not a single soldier, not a single shot, no shot, just three inches of uncorrupted tongue to subdue a large number of Somali pirates, even the presidents of African countries have awarded him medals.
Somali pirates
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Kimura Kiyoshi's start was not good, because he was born in Japan after World War II, died millions of young people + two atomic bombs + the economy was completely dragged down, under such a big environment, few people in Japan can see it, that is called a bitter force.
And Kimura Kiyoshi belongs to the particularly bitter kind, his father died in a car accident when Kimura Kiyoshi was 4 years old, the family all depended on his mother to support, so as the eldest son Kimura Kiyoshi had to go to other people's homes to help raise chickens, raise rabbits, sell eggs to earn a little pocket money to replace the family, go to school and have to send newspapers, and go to work as a caddy on weekends.
Japan's post-war economy was depressed
But even so, at the age of 15, the family could not afford the tuition of three children, Kimura Kiyoshi still dropped out of school, and his mother asked him what he wanted to do. He said, when pilots.
At that time, the officers in the Japanese Self-Defense Forces were veterans of World War II, bloody and cruel, harsh, training techniques and intensity were very amazing, as a new recruit egg Kiyoshi was at first extremely unaccustomed to this difficult military life, but in order to realize his dream of piloting, he still gritted his teeth and survived, and finally in the fourth year of joining the Self-Defense Forces, he successfully became the f104 fighter pilot.
Kiyoshi Kimura during his service
outcome...
A car accident left his vision permanently damaged. The pilot is out of the game, pack your bags, and discharge.
Back at home, Kimura counted his wallets, the self-defense forces' six-year salary was a total of 680,000 yen, buy stocks, a stud, 680,000 all in, two and a half months, 4 times! With 3 million Kimura Kiyoshi, the days were at ease, but at this time, one of his friends asked him to borrow money, 2 million, half a year later, Kimura Kiyoshi did not hesitate to lend it to him.
Friends disappeared, and Kiyoshi Kimura's 2 million disappeared with them. If you don't see it, you don't see it, and life has to go on, doesn't it? So Kimura Had no choice but to go out and find a job selling encyclopedias. At that time, the set of encyclopedias he sold was more than 20,000 yen, and the conventional method could not be sold at all, and he could only rely on the salesman to peddle along the street or even sell it door-to-door, but even the best salesman could only sell 1 or 2 sets a day, and 50 sets a month were capped. Kiyoru Kimura sold 500 sets in the first month! For the company, it can be described as a fierce person. Just as Kimura Kiyomi waited for the company's large bonuses and commissions.
The company does not give, you say angry people? Kimura Kiyoshi asked several times, that is, he kept dragging it and did not give it, and in a fit of anger, Kimura Kiyoshi waved his hand: Grandpa don't want it, I'll say goodbye to you. He fried the boss's squid, went to an aquatic company, Kimura Kiyoshi entered the unit, and immediately found that your squid selling method is not right, just selling squid whiskers and heads, cutting off the edges and corners are thrown away, is this not pure waste? The company says it has been that way for decades. Kimura Kiyoshi recycled all the squid scraps cut off, found someone to dry and beat into powder, made into feed, helped the aquatic company greatly increase its income and profits, and the boss was happy to help him get promoted and raise his salary, just when Kimura Kiyoshi's future was very good.
Out of jealousy and red-eyedness, colleagues isolated Kiyoshi Kimura, dug up his customers, and said bad things about him in front of the boss, in short, they didn't want Kiyoshi Kimura to stay in this aquatic company. Kiyoichi Kimura pondered, how can the male lion be with the ants, the grandfather is not waiting, he will do it alone! With the accumulated customer resources in the aquatic company and the almost genius business acumen, Kimura Kiyoshi founded his own Kimura store, and after just a few years, the business scale has reached an extremely large scale. Not only aquatic products, but also karaoke, shopping malls, restaurants, and even extended commercial tentacles to the real estate industry! At its peak, Kimura Stores had nearly 90 types of businesses and billions of yen in assets! Just when Kiyoshi Kimura turned his hand in the business world for the clouds to cover his hands for the rain.
In the 1990s, when Japan's economy was shattered, the banks forced Kimura to pay off his loans, and after Kimura sold all his assets to pay off his debts, he was left with a total of 30,000 yen.
The Japanese economic bubble burst in the 1990s
But Kiyoshi Kimura is definitely not a person who can't stand up when he falls, and he uses the little start-up capital he has left to open a sushi restaurant called "Kiyomura" outside the gate of the Japanese Tsukiji Market. No one expected that this small shop, which was only 18 seats, would develop into Japan's first sushi brand chain in the future.
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In April 2001, for the first time in Japan, Tsukiji was opened year-round, the 24-hour sushi restaurant "Samadhi Sushi Main Store" was opened, and kiyoshi Kimura, the president of Kiyomura, personally cut the ribbon, and in the following ten years, this sushi restaurant famous for its tuna sashimi in Japan expanded wildly, with more than 70 stores of all sizes covering almost all major cities in Japan, and Kiyoshi Kimura, who created this "sushi empire", also earned countless fortunes.
Samadhi sushi store
Since the main ingredient in Samadhi sushi is tuna, kiyoshi Kimura is extremely enthusiastic about an event, the bluefin tuna auction at Tsukiji Market, in order to highlight the high quality of his ingredients and to show his place in the sushi community.
This auction is very significant, similar to our country's Chagan Lake Head Fish Auction - in Japan, Tsukiji Market often holds auctions, but the first bluefin auction ceremony of the new year is the most grand, and everyone throws thousands of dollars to grab this bluefin, and the most famous of these people is Kimura Kiyoshi.
How do you say that?
Looking at the data, the bluefin tuna auction began in 1999, the auction price of the head fish that year was 1.48 million yen, and has been rising steadily since then, with the final auction price of 4.47 million yen in 2005, and the transaction price reached 7.8 million yen in 2011.
According to this trend, the auction price of bluefin fish in 2012 should be around 10 million yen (hundreds of thousands of yuan), and everyone is looking forward to seeing which local tycoon can rush the price to 10 million.
In the midst of everyone's attention, Kiyoshi Kimura made a shot, and everyone was directly stupid, because he directly raised the final transaction price by an order of magnitude, 50 million yen!
50 million yen to buy a fish, what is this operation? With Kiyoshi Kimura's thousands of dollars, Samadhi Sushi successfully went out of the circle and became a well-known star enterprise in Japan - look quickly, Samadhi Sushi is the shop opened by the local tycoon who bought a fish for 50 million.
For Kiyoshi Kimura, this 50 million yen to buy is not only a bluefin, but an excellent opportunity to appear in front of the national and even world media, so after the bluefin auction, he is not absent for many times, and the transaction record is repeatedly refreshed in his hands!
In 2015, he spent 150 million yen to make headline bluefins;
In 2018, 36.5 million yen was spent;
In 2019, Kiyo Kimura spent 330 million yen (21 million yuan) to auction a 278-kilogram bluefin, setting a record for the auction of bluefins in the resident market!
In 2020, he once again spent thousands of dollars and won the first fish at a sky-high price of 200 million yen (12.5 million yuan)!
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If that's all, Kiyoshi Kimura is at best the owner of a successful sushi chain, even with a bit of a local tycoon. But Kiyoshi Kimura has another unknown side that greatly increases his radiance – he has successfully "incorporated" a considerable number of Somali pirates.
In fact, as early as the beginning of his business, Kimura Kiyoshi has been looking for ways to significantly reduce the cost of ingredients, and through research and investigation, he has set his sights on the waters near Somalia , because this is an extremely resource-rich tuna farm.
Since the beginning of the 14th century, African fishermen have been fishing and hunting here, into the second half of the 20th century, especially after the 1990s, due to various reasons, piracy activities near the Gulf of Aden in the Somali sea are rampant, and cases of hijacking of merchant ships to and fro have occurred frequently, which is called the world's cancer, and countries need to spend huge financial and material resources every year, and even send armed ships to escort them, in order to ensure the safe passage of their own country's merchant ships.
Kiyoshi Kimura believes that the reason why pirates carry out illegal activities is that there is still no legal livelihood and income, and it is precisely a huge "gold mine" in front of their homes, why can't they persuade the pirates to give up robbery and turn to tuna fishing?
Kiyoshi Kimura took his assistant to Somalia, visited many fishing villages, and tried to persuade these "pirates", but at first with little success, because these pirates did not believe the rhetoric of a Japanese and raised many practical questions.
But Kiyoshi Kimura communicated with them again and again with great patience and sincerity, and finally a small group of pirates were willing to sit down and discuss cooperation.
The pirates took Kiyoshi Kimura on a tour of their boats, which were all lightweight boats in order to quickly approach the target of robbery, and could not meet the requirements of catching tuna in large quantities, so Kiyoshi Kimura added the most advanced fishing operation vessels for the pirates, each equipped with fishing equipment and freezing warehouses;
Pirates caught fish ashore, and Kiyoshi Kimura also set up storage points and planned freight routes on the edge of the dock;
Kiyoshi Kimura and Somali fishermen
Kimura Kiyoshi also promised the pirates that every tuna caught by everyone he worked with could be sold at a reasonable price without worrying about slow sales, so Kimura Kiyoshi found his peers in the Japanese industry, and under the joint leadership of these people, the pirates joined the Indian Ocean Tuna Council for the "tuna people", and since then, the sales and price of the products have been guaranteed.
On this basis, Kiyoshi Kimura assured the "pirates" that even if he lost money, he would buy the tuna that the "pirates" could not sell according to the wholesale price of the Japanese market that year.
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With stable jobs and incomes, pirates who used to live a "knife-edged blood- licking" life have come to their aid. In 2011, there were 300 piracy cases, and in 2015, the piracy cases were almost zero, which is naturally the result of a combination of factors, but the Japanese tuna merchants led by Kiyoshi Kimura are indispensable.
In recognition of Kimura's outstanding contribution to reducing piracy cases, Somali neighbor Gibb thanked him with a medal.
Pirates do not have to fight and kill, past merchant ships do not have to worry about fear, and Kimura Kiyoshi has also harvested a steady stream of high-quality tuna and wealth, which is Kimura Kiyoshi's legendary and inspirational industry legend.
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