"Whenever I wanted to sell Alibaba, she gave me the motivation to keep going."
This is what Ma Yun made when he talked about the hardships of entrepreneurship on many public occasions. In Ma Yun's eyes, "she" is the idol she has chased all her life, her own guiding light, and whenever she wants to give up, "she" gives herself the motivation to continue.
This "she" is not a commercial giant, but a down-and-out female star in Japan, her name is Yumiko Araki, and the post-60s, post-70s, and post-80s who are familiar with her In China remember that she is Junko Fawn in "Volleyball Girl".
Junko Fawn in the TV series, hard training, tenacious struggle, so that many Chinese people remember this young and beautiful Japanese girl, her "clear sky thunderbolt" trick, is still fresh in people's memories.
When "Volleyball Girl" was introduced to China, it was catching up with Ma Yun's consecutive college entrance examination failures and was at the lowest point in his life. It was the appearance of Junko Fawn who gave him the motivation to have an idol. Since then, Ma Yun has regarded Junko Xiaolu as his dream lover, and even traveled to Japan 6 times, just to meet his idol.
In 2004, Junko Ogi's actor Yumiko Araki parachuted into Alibaba's headquarters, and at this moment, Ma Yun "looked up" to his idol like a small fan, and also brought Yumiko Araki to Chinese fans.
"Without her, there would be no Alibaba, and there would be no Ma Yun today!" Ma Yun said.
Junko Fawn: Ma Yun's youth
Time back to 1983. This year, Ma Yun took the college entrance examination for the second time, but once again failed the college entrance examination: his English score was very good, but he only scored 19 points in mathematics.
As a standard post-60s, Ma Yun, like other Xinxin students, also regards the college entrance examination as an opportunity to change his destiny, and everything is logical when he is admitted to college, graduates, gets married and has children. But when he took the college entrance examination for the first time, he only scored a pitiful 1 point in mathematics, and his dream of going to Peking University was shattered.
Ma Yun once sank, did not plan to repeat the study, ready to go out to work to support himself. However, the boy who looked "strange" at that time could not even find a job. When the hotel applied for a waiter, the boss did not look at his appearance and told him directly: "Young man, I advise you, the hotel is not suitable for you, you still go to the construction site to move bricks." ”
Ma Yun was so devastated that he had to buy a tricycle and shuttle through the streets to deliver books to magazines. During that time, he sweated every day and ate the pain of labor, but he really couldn't stand it, so he chose to re-read. But in 1983, he fell off the list again.
At this time, not only his relatives and friends, but even his parents did not support him to retake the exam. Just when he felt embarrassed, in the summer of 1983, he saw Junko Oda in "Volleyball Women".
In 1979, "Volleyball Girl" was released in Japan. After the broadcast, Junko Oda, played by Yumiko Araki, was loved by the Japanese people. In the streets of Japan, children imitated her performance in the movie, jumping up and shouting "clear sky thunderbolt", setting off a "volleyball fever" in Japan.
In distant China, volleyball is also booming. In 1981, Yuan Weimin led the girls of the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the World Cup championship, opening a feat of five consecutive championships.
In 1983, in order to continue to promote the Chinese people's love of volleyball, CCTV introduced "Volleyball Women". As soon as the TV series was broadcast, it immediately caused a strong response in China, and after the 60s and 70s, no one did not know the name of the heroine Junko Fawn.
At this time, Ma Yun also watched "Volleyball Women", and was immediately attracted by The tenacious struggle of Junko Xiaolu and the strength to not accept defeat, and regarded Junko Xiaolu as his idol, even "first love" and "dream lover".
Ma Yun realized that life cannot be successful casually, and only by never giving up can he get ahead. Therefore, despite his parents' objections, he once again chose to repeat the study.
In the third college entrance examination, he scored 89 points in mathematics, but he was still not enough to go to undergraduate. However, this time, the goddess of luck took care of this hard-working young man, and Hangzhou Normal College took a fancy to his excellent English scores and made an exception to recruit him into the school.
6 trips to Japan, finally met the "dream lover"
After graduating from Hangzhou Normal University, Ma Yun chose to start a business, successfully founded Alibaba, and his life path became wider and wider, becoming the e-commerce boss in everyone's mouth.
Along the way, Ma Yun also has a decadent and helpless time, but whenever he encounters a difficult obstacle, he will repeatedly watch "Volleyball Girl", using Junko Fawn as a beacon on his way forward, guiding him to start again.
Later, in an interview with reporters, he said more than once: "There are many times when I have thought about giving up entrepreneurship, and it was Junko Fawn who gave me the motivation to continue." ”
After the success of the business, Ma Yun also played star chasing and wanted to see his dream lover Junko Fawn. To this end, he has traveled to Japan six times so that he can see his idols.
But Ma Yun's path to star chasing is not easy. When CCTV introduced "Volleyball Girl" to China, although it was translated Chinese, Yumiko Araki, the actor of Junko Oga, her Japanese name is more special, all composed of Japanese katakana. Therefore, Rao is Ma Yun who has watched the movie several times and does not know the real name of Yumiko Araki.
In 1994, Ma Yun went to Japan for the first time to look for Junko Fawn, but was told by the local Japanese people that they had not watched "Volleyball Women", and they did not know who Junko Fawn was.
Originally, "Volleyball Girl" is a sports film set in the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, and it did cause a sensation in Japan at the beginning of its release. However, in the same year that the film was released, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, and Japan, as a vassal of the United States, not only boycotted the Moscow Olympic Games, but also changed "Volleyball Girl" from prime time to early morning broadcast, and then simply banned.
Therefore, Ma Yun has traveled to Japan 6 times and searched all over the country, but found that the deer village that became popular in China is unknown in Japan, and no one knows who she plays.
Until 2000, Ma Yun went to Japan for the sixth time, and when he had dinner with friends at night, he remembered Junko Xiaolu again, and he was full of emotions for a while. The friend at the dinner table was greatly touched after hearing it, and in order to fulfill his wish, he immediately contacted his friends in the Japanese film and television circle. At three o'clock in the morning, the good news came: Junko Oga's actor Yumiko Araki had found it!
However, due to busy work, Ma Yun only met his "dream lover" 15 minutes before he boarded the plane to return to China. Although it was only a short 15 minutes, both were impressed with each other. Yumiko Araki even assured Ma that she would definitely come to China. At this time, she was 40 years old, although she had been carefully dressed, but the face of the goddess was no longer there, and even a little depressed.
A fallen Japanese goddess
In 1960, Yumiko Araki was born into an ordinary family in Kyushu, Japan. She has been smart and sensible since she was a child, sweet and moving. Her biggest dream is to become a movie star and be loved by the public.
However, Yumiko's parents have a tradition of not liking their daughter's appearance, and her father told her: "We Kyushu men don't go to the kitchen because there are women behind them." ”
But how could Yumiko easily compromise, the reason didn't make sense, and she cried and made trouble. The father could not bear his daughter's sadness, and finally softened his heart, and sent her to the local dance school to let her learn the form and dance.
In 1976, at the age of 16, Yumiko participated in a talent show in Japan. Although her performance was average, she was very moving, and her pitiful appearance of tears on the stage touched the Japanese audience in front of the TV set and became a hit.
In 1978, when the famous director Hideo Tanaka was preparing to shoot "Volleyball Girl", he thought of this "tearful girl", so he invited her to play the heroine Junko Oda.
Yumiko is beautiful, but her height is only 1 meter 51, which is very different from the women's volleyball girl with long legs in reality. In order to achieve the performance effect, the director specially selected a group of girls with a height of less than 1 meter 6 to play for her, and reduced the sports facilities such as nets in the same proportion, and finally had a look.
In order to better shape the role, Yumiko can be said to have worked hard, never touched volleyball, she trained hard every day, often muscle strains, fell blue nose and swollen face, and even broke her jaw.
Finally, after the 81-episode inspirational TV series was broadcast, it caused a strong response in society, and Yumiko also became famous and became the top of the Japanese showbiz circle.
However, the good times did not last long, and with the ban of "Volleyball Girl" in Japan, Yumiko's reputation plummeted. In 1983, at the age of 23, she quit the show business circle and married the well-known Japanese musician Yuhara, living an ordinary life of getting married and having children.
Yumiko and her husband have a good relationship, but the tribulations of life test her again and again. Just a week after their marriage, her mother-in-law fell ill and soon after developed severe Alzheimer's disease.
Although Yumiko tries her best to take care of her mother-in-law, where can her mother-in-law remember her goodness and keep looking for stubble.
"Yumiko doesn't cook for me."
"Yumiko beat me."
"Yumiko has gone home with the young man."
The mother-in-law always says bad things about Yumiko to her face. But her husband, Yuhara, knew that Yumiko was a qualified wife, a filial daughter-in-law, and the "young boy" in her mother's mouth, and that it was no one else, but himself.
In the face of her mother-in-law's accusations, Yumiko cried, struggled, and thought about giving up. But whenever she encounters difficulties, she will encourage herself with her own words: You are Junko Fawn, the Junko who will never accept defeat, you must cheer up and take care of this family wholeheartedly.
Yumiko's efforts finally touched her mother-in-law. In 2003, when her mother-in-law was dying, she took Yumiko's hand and said with tears in her eyes: These years have been hard for you, Yumiko, you will be happy in the future...
However, the ordeal of life does not end there. Shortly after her mother-in-law's death, Yumiko was diagnosed with a neoplastic disease. During the time of treatment, she was already very thin and thin, and she lost a whole circle. At one point, she thought about dying, but with the support and encouragement of her husband and son, she gave up this terrible idea. Like Junko Fawn, she regained her strength, removed the tumor, and regained her health.
Having come to China many times, he is already his second hometown
In 2000, Yumiko met her "fan" Jack Ma. This meeting not only made Ma Yun realize his wish to face the idol face to face, but also made Yumiko very moved, she did not expect that a role she had played could bring such a big impact on the lives of others.
At this moment, she once again penetrated the meaning of life, announced her comeback, and made more than 20 years of experience in taking care of her mother-in-law into an elderly care show called "Psychologically Prepared Care", which was deeply loved by everyone.
In 2004, Yumiko accepted an invitation from Jack Ma to alibaba's headquarters. When she appeared, countless post-60s and post-70s were crazy about it, and the screen image of "Junko Fawn" was the youth memory of a generation.
Since then, Yumiko has come to China many times. In December 2004, she came to the recording site of CCTV's "Art Life" program, and the applause from the audience was thunderous.
In the show, an audience member gave her a volleyball full of fan names, yumiko was greatly moved, tears wet her eyes, and thanked the kind Chinese: "I really didn't expect that there were so many Chinese remember 'Junko Fawn'." In the future, I will definitely work hard for Sino-Japanese friendship, thank you! ”
That's what Yumiko said, and that's what she did. In the following ten years, she opened in China almost every year, attended various events, and regarded China as her second hometown. In 2018, she won the "China-Japan Friendship Contribution Award" at the "Weibo Japan Heroes Association" held in Tokyo.
To this day, Yumiko, who is more than a year old, still cares about everything in China, not only taught herself Chinese, but also opened a Weibo account to facilitate better communication with Chinese fans.
In 2022, during the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yumiko posted on Weibo many times to send sincere wishes to athletes participating in the East Olympic Games.
In addition, Yumiko also received a lot of help from Ma Yun, and her autobiography was published with the support of Ma Yun. Today, Yumiko, who was once beautiful and moving, has long been engraved on her face by the years, but the tenacious and tenacious spirit of "Junko Oga" continues to pass on, continue to move forward, and inspire more people.