History Recap / FujitsuGuangdong

* JawDrop: The nromally absent Morita sudden appears in a meeting concerning a crackdown on crime, which most of the corporate leaders gaping in shock, most notably Matsushita.

* BringIt: In his address for the Persistence ending, Ibuka comments on the outside threats facing Guangdong in the coming decade, but he expresses no fear for what's to come, confident that the country will survive and continue on its visionary path with Fujitsu's guidance.

* GadgeteerGenius: Gunpei Yokoi is smart enough to design a complicated, plastic toy that piques the interest of Yamauchi and starts Nintendo's path to becoming a toy company. Soon, he becomes Yamauchi's right-hand man and in charge of designing revolutionary novelties, like the electronic Love Tester and the optoelectronic light gun.

* RagsToRiches: Gunpei Yokoi is introduced as one of the countless maintenance workers living in Guangdong before becoming a renowned toy inventor when he's noticed by Yamauchi.

In this new era, matters are mixed for the Lee family. In the former case, Hei rejects his Zhujin application and quits Fujitsu to start his own firm before trying to reconcile with his brother. If the CCL were suppressed, Hei visits Chun in prison and the latter still needs time before he forgives his sibling. A true reconciliation is only possible if the CCL were negotiated and the two brothers happily return home together. The major shortcoming in either scenario is that Wai can't yet go to college without Hei's stable income. In another equally bittersweet case, Lam returns to his home village and his family, reaffirming his cultural identity and relief that the plans to bulldoze the place have been rejected.

* BadBoss: With the Organized Labor Ordinance's passage, the Japanese managers are given free rein to abuse and belittle the Chinese workers they employ, which Yoshiko and Lam are disturbed by, thinking that this signals dark days ahead for Guangdong's future. As Ibuka puts it, the companies should only value the workers who express "excellence"; all others are expendable.

* DeathOrGloryAttack: Operation 489 is an incredibly risky endeavor by the Guangdong police to destroy the Triads. If it fails, Ibuka will have no choice but to cut his losses, having sacrificed too much capital to stage another attack.

* DyingTown: Many of Guangdong’s rural and agricultural towns suffer thanks to Ibuka’s aggressive urbanization. The Ministry of Agriculture finds that food production is in decline as people move to the cities, not helped by the industrial pollution either. It's openly stated that they're even lucky to produce a quarter of their own food.

* ForWantOfANail: The successful emigration of one Chinese citizen to the Republic of China is dependent on whether the Guangdong Modern Police Ordinance passed and weakened the Kenpeitai. If it did, then he and thousands of other refugees will be stopped at the border.

** Ibuka's renovation of the cities requires the relocation of thousands of Chinese citizens, who are rendered homeless and left to fend for themselves. One event shows hundreds of bulldozers descending on a port neighborhood, with expelled families watching in horror and the police unsure if everyone has been evacuated. It's an appalling plan that Morita feels sick to his stomach to think about.

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: In Ibuka's Persistence path, once the Guangdong Future Act passes, subjugating every [=LegCo=] representative to Fujitsu's control, the Legislative Council mechanic will be closed off to the player.

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Guangdong police have blood on their hands and set up checkpoints to profile Chinese citizens, but they don't hold a candle to the brutish violence of the Kenpeitai. Tellingly, if the Modern Police Ordinance restrains the Kenpeitai's reach, Leong and Mei will comment on the increased police presence, but note their relief that it isn't the Kenpeitai.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: The arrest of several CCL members can be publicly shown to make an example of those who oppose the Chief Executive.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Ibuka draws parallels between himself and Ludwig Erhard, an unassuming man who also wants to make sweeping free market changes, in opposition to a conservative establishment. Ibuka considers Erhard and his reforms to be a future competitor to Fujitsu, but he partners with him for the time being.

* ReluctantRetiree: With the Guangdong Anti-Corruption Ordinance, Ibuka can force his less powerful enemies into retirement on the grounds of "corruption".

** {{Subverted}}. To calm everyone down in the Oil Crisis, Ibuka sends a nationwide radio transmission, boasting about Guangdong's special place in the world and declaring that the nation will overcome the latest troubles, if they work together. However, his words fail to calm the populace and Ibuka's increasingly desperate calls for calmness are similarly fruitless.

* SinisterSurveillance: Ibuka makes sure to have cameras and audio recording equipment in every possible area he could think of as part of his security measures up to and including monitoring private offices to stamp out corruption. Such surveillance efforts extend to squashing other forms of dissent, sending his police when they detect the slightest infraction.

* SmugSnake: The Kenpeitai officers Lam meets for Operation 489 are smug in their attitude and treat the police as inferiors to their proper police work. Lam also recalls an incident where Kenpeitai officers were wielding katanas to his colleague to flaunt their purported superiority.

* SmugSnake: The Special Security Action militia are overconfident in their lighting-quick response times and superiority over the police. They don't even consider the possibility that the police could ever turn the tides on them, paying more attention to how bad of an idea it is to wear black in the summer weather.

* TheStoolPigeon: Talk of dissent against Fujitsu is ill-advised because other people can happily snitch them out for it. In one case, a worker from Haru Chemicals Limited speaks ill of Ibuka and his recent abolition of downtime, in which his longtime friend is heavily implied to have sold him out to security and get him fired.

* IndustrializedEvil: One of Ibuka’s main goals is a vast expansion of industrial areas with factories to support growing demand for cheap products from Guangdong. This is achieved through aggressive land acquisitions and integrating urban housing into these new industrial areas, paving the way for the creation of the "Steel Belt" and uprooting thousands of lives to fulfill Ibuka's pet project.

* JustAMachine: Ibuka can fully entrust computers to monitor the marketplace under the belief that they are not susceptible to typical human vices. To him, computers are incapable of bribery, do not demand wages, and do not waste time on endeavors outside of completing their function.

* OutsideTheBoxTactic: Rather than invest in traditional oil extraction, Ibuka can instead tap into solar and wind energy, an unorthodox endeavor which will require a heavy cost, but something that Ibuka considers worthy of pursuing.

** Ibuka, believing the civil service to be full of vested interests and the incompetent, "streamlines" the bureaucracy by cutting loose many of its employees.

[[Recap/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Index]] | [[Recap/SuzukiGuangdong Suzuki's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/YasudaCrisisGuangdong Yasuda Crisis]] | [[Recap/SonyGuangdong Sony's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/MatsushitaGuangdong Matsushita's Guangdong]] | '''Fujitsu's Guangdong''' | [[Recap/GuangdongLamFlashbacks Lam Haau-cyun's Flashbacks]] | [[Recap/GuangdongHyperwar Opium Trade War]] | [[Recap/GuangdongHitachiCoup Hitachi Coup]] | [[Recap/HitachiGuangdong Hitachi's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/OilCrisisAndGuangdongRiotsGuangdong General Oil Crisis and Guangdong Riots]] | [[Recap/IJAGuangdong Imperial Japanese Army's Guangdong]]]]-]]]

* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: When giving the news that computers will be used en masse in Fujitsu, his employees ask what will happen to them, now that their jobs are being taken away. Ibuka responds that their offices will make way for "Guangdong's chief ascension to efficiency and prosperity", all but stating their inevitable job termination.

* DeusExMachina: Being mugged by a Yakuza member, Chun senses his impeding doom before his attacker drops dead with a hatchet buried in his back. The hatchet was wielded by an individual in a tank top who subsequently tries to advertise a radio to Chun after verifying he is Chinese.

* DevelopersForesight: If Operation 489 was successful, Ibuka's Reconciliation ending plays a special event where a captured Ho is released, but feels disillusioned and questions the possibility that he can revive the Triads' business.

* JerkassHasAPoint: One wealthy Japanese woman bemoans Ibuka's Zoning Ordinance and its absurd plan to evict and redistribute people based on their occupation, even calling out Yoshiko for blindly acting as Fujitsu's mouthpiece when she tries to defend the initiative.

* ObstructiveBureaucrat: One early response to the Oil Crisis dissidents is to set up road closures and traffic blocks to hinder their activities, with even innocent civilians suffering a maze of obstructions and unsympathetic bureaucrats who waste hours of their time to reach a desired service.

** As representatives from Fujitsu and the various riot organizations meet to negotiate a settlement in the reconciliation ending, a Fujitsu member attempts to speak with his poor knowledge of Cantonese while, careful to avoid using a condescending tone. Neither trusts the other, but the rioters find the efforts of this Fujitsu representative to be hilarious and has to prevent himself from laughing.

** As Hei finds out too late in the Oil Crisis, he never secured a permanent contract with Fujitsu and could easily be cast aside, if he's no longer useful to them. By this point, Hei finally figures out the downsides to throwing his lot with them, which could stick in the reconciliation ending.

* BringIt: In his address for the persistence ending, Ibuka comments on the outside threats facing Guangdong in the coming decade, but he expresses no fear for what's to come, confident that the country will survive and continue on its visionary path with Fujitsu's guidance.

** In the last flashback, when Tokyo Telecommunications was still active, Morita asks Ibuka if he's willing to risk everything by going to Guangdong and seeing his dream through. The same question crosses Ibuka's mind during the riots, in which his affirmation or rejection is the one of the most dramatic choices for whether he goes down the persistence or the reconciliation path.

* ChanceMeetingBetweenAntagonists: In a reconciliation ending with the CCL negotiated with, the two Lee brothers encounter each other by chance while on walks from the new accommodations the've obtained. There, the two brothers reconcile and catch up on all the lost time between them, starting with Hei's profuse apology for turning his back on the family.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: Near the end of his epilogue tree, Ibuka receives news that the Republic of China is gearing for war against Japan, which disturbs and motivates him to prepare Guangdong for the impending conflict. More immediately concerning in the reconciliation ending, Komai forms an alliance with Nagano and Miyazaki to overthrow the Chief Executive, believing that he's become too indecisive to properly lead the country for the upcoming war.

** Ibuka’s persistence ending acts as this for all of Guangdong, with a squabbling Chinese laborer and Japanese manager mutually realizing that Guangdong does not care about either of them and that Ibuka has absolute control over their fates, leaving them as nothing more than parts of a metaphorical circuit board.
* DevelopersForesight: If Operation 489 was successful, Ibuka's reconciliation ending plays a special event where a captured Ho is released, but feels disillusioned and questions the possibility that he can revive the Triads' business.

** Lam’s reconnection with his distant family in the reconciliation path is accompanied with a bright sunny day.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Though shot in Ibuka's persistence path, a Guangdong rioter does not perish with any regrets over what she's done, happy that she at least died for a purpose and not in a sweatshop.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: {{Inverted}}. The Guangdong Future Act is guaranteed to pass in Ibuka's persistence ending, emphasizing how much power he has at this point.

* GratuitousLatin: In the reconciliation ending, Wai makes her decision about getting a labour-intensive internship in an event whose title and reaction text write “Times change us and we change in them” in Latin.

* HeelFaceTurn: Following Ibuka's reconciliation path, some Fujitsu executives apologize for the abuses they've afflicted on the populace and resign to show that they are genuinely remorseful. They even open negotiations with the rioters and, besides some awkward attempts to speak Cantonese, the talks go smoothly.

** As the remaining CCL members are hunted down in the persistence path, some start talking about turning themselves in, no longer able to stay in their cramped hideouts and eat nothing but dehydrated onions. Though, for one group, it doesn't matter anyway, since they all get caught and arrested.

** {{Subverted}} in Ibuka's reconciliation path. After being ordered to stand down, most of the police expect that the rioters will take advantage of their retreat to assert themselves even more violently, but they actually become more peaceful in response.

** Komai fears Guangdong's descent into a one-company dictatorship in Ibuka's persistence ending, mostly because it's hurting Hitachi's economic interests and Fujitsu's surveillance is too advanced for him to do anything about it.

* ReactionShot: Ibuka’s first national address in his reconciliation path demonstrates the reactions of various people. Lee Chun scoffs at the understatement of Ibuka claiming that his policies were questionable. Morita finds little comfort in agreeing with Ibuka that inviting Hitachi was a mistake. Finally, a group of rioters react with uncertainty when Ibuka claims responsibility for everything that has transpired in Guangdong and that he is supposedly sorry for it.

* RejectedApology: {{ZigZagged}}. With Ibuka conceding in his reconciliation path, some Fujitsu managers and other employees make apologies for their actions, with a few going as far as resigning. After all the years of exploitation by these people, many doubt their sincerity and take the opportunity to mock those apologizing. That being said, others take the belief that some of Fujitsu’s managers are being genuine.

* {{Sadist}}: In the persistence path, the Guangdong police are unleashed on the rioters and some take a disturbing amount of glee with beating them to death and destroying entire communities with the knowledge that they won't be caught for it. One event even implies that they're willing to [[WouldHurtAChild hurt children]].
* SafetyInIndifference: In the persistence ending, everyone realizes that Ibuka has effectively cemented his control over Guangdong and has surveillance everywhere to monitor and decide the fates of anyone he thinks about. Having no hope of beating him, the denizens of Guangdong have resigned to indifference, preferring safety over rioting or raging against the unequal ethnic hierarchy.

** If Operation 489 was a failure and Ibuka goes down the reconciliation path, the criminal underworld returns to its status quo of Triads and Yakuza battling for dominance, much to Yokoi's irritation.
** In the reconciliation ending, Ibuka realizes that his ambitious, technological vision for Guangdong is unrealistic and gives up on them, returning Guangdong to its chaotic, albeit still oppressive, status quo.

* SuppressedHistory: Ibuka’s persistence response to the riots concludes with the demolition of the Hengli Residential Facility, which has become an empty wreck, thoroughly looted and riddled with bullets. This building, along with the Hitachi factory, were ground zero for the riots and have been scheduled for destruction to bury the memory of these initial outbreaks, regardless of any unfortunate residents still remaining.

** During his first address in the reconciliation path, Ibuka comments that he's made policies that were "questionable at best". Chun scoffs at the understatement.

** A particularly combative member of the Legislative Council makes a fair point in the reconciliation route, arguing that the Legislative Council needs to mediate the Chief Executive's actions. Ibuka agrees with the sentiment and, despite his own frustrations with the arguing in the Council, he lets the comment fly.

[[Recap/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Index]] | [[Recap/SuzukiGuangdong Suzuki's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/YasudaCrisisGuangdong Yasuda Crisis]] | [[Recap/SonyGuangdong Sony's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/MatsushitaGuangdong Matsushita's Guangdong]] | '''Fujitsu's Guangdong''' | [[Recap/GuangdongHyperwar Opium Trade War]] | [[Recap/GuangdongHitachiCoup Hitachi Coup]] | [[Recap/HitachiGuangdong Hitachi's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/OilCrisisAndGuangdongRiotsGuangdong General Oil Crisis and Guangdong Riots]] | [[Recap/IJAGuangdong Imperial Japanese Army's Guangdong]]]]-]]]

* FiringDay: With newly empowered managers and the promotion of social Darwinist rhetoric, the president of Haru Chemicals fires seven employees in front of their co-workers as an example for the others to keep up with a higher standard.

* NotMeThisTime: When his invitation to Komai is leaked to the Legislative Council, Ibuka immediately confronts Matsushita about it, knowing that his men were responsible and thinking that it's a power move to try discrediting him once more as Chief Executive. However, Matsushita denies all responsibility for giving the order and doesn't care anyway, defending their anger at Ibuka as legitimate.

However, not everyone is so angry with the Chief Executive's direction. Yoshiko Yasukawa is blinded by Fujitsu's educational success stories and Ibuka's charisma, writing favorable articles about their regime without a hint to the widespread abuses it carries out. Her writing wins her the adoration of the magazine's audience, which renames itself from "Kanton Fujin Koron" to "Kanton Koron". Meanwhile, Lee Hei, the middle child of the Lee family, becomes a prodigy and rewarded with an internship in Fujitsu, who are eager to advertise him as the "Model Learner". However, this strains his relationship with his older brother, Chun, who works in the factories and resents Fujitsu for its oppressive actions. Many share Chun's sentiment. The Zhujin have lost most of their privileges under the new regime and form the Guangdong Federation of Tradesmen in the hopes they can be regained. Further, the Chinese workers are sick of being denied welfare by Ibuka and coalesce under the Committee of Chinese Labor. Though rapidly growing in strength, these dissidents are not an immediate concern, due to the outbreak of the Oil Crisis.

But Ibuka doesn't need to seal his fate in history as a monster; he can alternatively confront his remorse and finally acknowledge that his actions are bringing ruin to Guangdong. To the surprise of the rioters, the police presence on the streets is pulled back and Ibuka publicly admits accountability for his actions in a remorseful tone. Negotiations are opened, with the Riots ending with the GFT and/or CCL agreeing to the government's concessions or being forcibly broken up.

In either case, the dust will settle and peace returns to Guangdong. If Ibuka persists in his vision, dark days await the country. The workers return to the factories, subjected to even worse exploitation and surveillance from the government. In the Legislative Council, Ibuka proposes the Guangdong Future Act, subordinating the entire government body to Fujitsu and suspending the system of ordinances so discretionary power is entirely concentrated to himself. The law passes and Morita leaves the chamber in silence, knowing that his former friend is truly beyond redemption. Not even Ibuka's former allies in the Yakuza or Hitachi are safe from his tightening grip, who fear that they'll become his next targets. Despite Ibuka ruling through fear and violence, his Guangdong utopia is viewed positively by the rest of the world, treating it as a prosperous financial and technological center that even the American and German delegates have to begrudgingly respect. In the end, Guangdong is Ibuka's personal kingdom, to be changed and governed by his own will.

* BadBoss: With the Organized Labor Ordinance's passage, the Japanese managers are given free rein to abuse and belittle the Chinese workers they employ, which Yoshiko and Lam are disturbed by, thinking that this signals dark days ahead for Guangdong's future.

* CommonTongue: If updating the electronic infrastructure of Guangdong, Ibuka will mandate the use of [=F-ShoGen=] as a programming language. Any devices that can't convert to this language are outmoded.

* ThePurge: Thinking the Legislative Council's corruption is worsening the Oil Crisis' effects, Ibuka can forcibly remove some of their members, to the opposition of many, including Morita, who denounces it as another power grab by the Chief Executive.

* SinisterSurveillance: Ibuka makes sure to have cameras and audio recording equipment in every possible area he could think of as part of his security measures up to and including monitoring private offices to stamp out corruption.

[[Recap/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope Index]] | [[Recap/SuzukiGuangdong Suzuki's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/YasudaCrisisGuangdong Yasuda Crisis]] | [[Recap/SonyGuangdong Sony's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/MatsushitaGuangdong Matsushita's Guangdong]] | '''Fujitsu's Guangdong''' | [[Recap/GuangdongHyperwar Opium Trade War]] | [[Recap/GuangdongHitachiCoup Hitachi Coup]] | [[Recap/HitachiGuangdong Hitachi's Guangdong]] | [[Recap/IJAGuangdong Imperial Japanese Army's Guangdong]]]]-]]]

* Disgusted by the poorer urban districts, Ibuka orders their destruction to be replaced with an ultramodern architecture, with their populations inflated with either Japanese or Zhujin arrivals. In his most radical move yet, Ibuka will try to "perfect" his city's design so that businesses and residential areas are rezoned based on occupation, even if this will split families apart.