With Shima and Koriyama ""https://google.com""" having been promoted, they had been replaced in their former spots by Tadamitsu Oguri in Beijing and Takashi Yagi in Shanghai. Oguri seemed to be getting off wrong-footed when it came to people like government officials as he wouldn't engage in bribery and spoke bluntly in regards to issues like the Senkaku Islands, but he seemed to try and immerse himself with the common people and employees who in turn seemed to really like him. Yagi quickly made an impact in growing Shanghai Hatsushiba's business by instituting performance based pay but his attitude rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, including Yang and Kokubun. Because of their attitudes towards him and seeming loyalty towards Shima, he proceeded cut Yang's pay while moving Kokubun into a newly created company overseeing Hatsushiba's golf investments. At the same time he also managed to piss off Lu Sangling, their Chinese golf prodigy, by mentioning that he was her older sister's lover. Shima also started going to a Chinese restaurant across from his condo called the Ronghua Hotel where he wound up coming to the aid of its owner, a woman named Tu Zilei who'd come over to Japan after becoming the lover of a politician, as shew as being attacked and shaken down by her younger brother. Concerningly, too, anti-Japan sentiment started rising in China and Hatsushiba was a victim of it when a mob attacked Chufa stores damaging only the Hatsushiba product, leading Sun to pull Hatsushiba's products. Yang and Chen Minsheng, Kokubun's replacement and Yagi's right hand man, decided to try countering online sentiment in response.

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