{"id":44464,"date":"2025-06-25T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T01:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/?p=44464"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:12:28","slug":"shincho1182","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/shincho1182\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Weekly Shincho<\/em> No. 44, November 4 1982 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jul26\/shincho1182A.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Does the bank guarantee it?<br \/>\nThe unsinkable battleship <em>Yamato<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We often hear about gatherings to encourage politicians, but what about gatherings to encourage film producers? A recent event held at Hotel Okura was called &#8220;a Gathering to Encourage Yoshinobu Nishizaki.&#8221; Mr. Nishizaki is known as the creator of the famous <em>Space Battleship Yamato<\/em>, but I was surprised when I peaked into the Heian Room where the event was held.<\/p>\n<p>It was attended by approximately 600 people, including politicians, such as Shintaro Ishihara, Akira Kuroyanagi, and Iori Yamaguchi, as well as Takami Shobochi (Chairman of Nippon Columbia), Haruo Shikanai (Vice-President of Fuji Television), and Susumu Watanabe (President of Watanabe productions)! A full band took to the stage, swordfish sashimi was laid out on the tables, and to top it all off, hostesses from Ginza added to the festivities. A truly extravagant event!<\/p>\n<p>Previously Mr. Nishizaki made a large loan to a food company owned by lawyer Masatomo Yamazaki, a former member of the Soka Gakkai, and was burdened with &#8220;nearly one billion yen in debt,&#8221; making it seem like he was beyond recovery. However, like the Battleship <em>Yamato<\/em>, he revived in just over a year and a half and announced the production of the fourth installment, <em>Space Battleship Yamato, The Final Chapter<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As expected of an unsinkable battleship! Mr. Nishizaki himself said, &#8220;it was very difficult to restore it to this extent. We had to cut our staff of nearly 120 down to a third. I even borrowed money from the bank.&#8221; But at the venue, executives from Sanwa Bank, his banking partner, exchanged cheers, and executives from Sumitomo and Mitsui banks also watched with keen interest. It\u2019s rare these days for a film to be guaranteed by a bank. Is it all because Battleship <em>Yamato<\/em> is unsinkable, meaning it\u2019s sure to be a hit?<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there are really four leaves on that clover.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault-images\/jul26\/shincho1182B.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/131x'>Return to previous article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44467,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44464\/revisions\/44467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourstarblazers.com\/vault\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}