Chapter 1669

Objectively speaking, Japan, as an advanced country, has many developed and prosperous sectors.

Nevertheless, other than Western medicine, almost the rest of the remaining lines were copied from Chinese medicine.

Kobayashi Pharma, Ottasan Pharma, and Dapeng Pharma were typical corporations that copied prescriptions from Chinese medicine and ancient Chinese medicine.

Dapeng Pharma, for instance, had once launched a so-called Chinese medicated slimming granule, which had its name attributed to a genius ancient Chinese doctor, Quinton Burns.

From this, one could see that Japanese pharmaceutical companies did not really contribute much to Chinese prescriptions, and the majority of them either stole or blatantly plagiarized them.

That was the main reason Charlie could simply disregard the R&D department without hesitation.

Who needs the prescription developed by Kobayashi Pharma’s R&D department when the magical prescriptions were written in the Apocalyptic Book were far superior to theirs?

Makawa felt ashamed after getting ridiculed by Charlie.

No one knew the actual condition of Kobayashi Pharma better than Makawa.

Indeed, as Charlie had mentioned, most products from Kobayashi Pharma had been actually sourced from ancient Chinese medicine.

As such, he felt embarrassed, but at the same time, he did not know how to refute Charlie.

Charlie looked at Makawa, then said nonchalantly, “A researcher who steals prescriptions from the R&D department is not worthy of being in my team. As a result, let me announce that, from now, Kobayashi Pharma’s R&D department will be disbanded, and everyone inside will be fired, with not a single one spared!”

“What?!!”

Everyone in Kobayashi Pharma was shocked and speechless.

Had Charlie been way too ruthless?

The fact was that there were about 100 employees in the R&D department in Kobayashi Pharma, and that would make up a total of over 100 families.

In Japanese society, it was meant to have only one individual to work outside. Thus, most would be the husbands who would work, while the wives would stay at home to take care of the children.

Because of this norm, Japanese families were very particular about job stability.

In general, most Japanese would work for the same job for many years until retirement.

As such, to the Japanese, the most feared thing would be job unemployment.

Makawa was also stunned.

Despite his income being considered high, he had to endure a great deal of burden too.

The housing market price in Tokyo was considered the highest in Asia. Just a few years ago, while Kobayashi Pharma’s business was booming, he had taken on a big loan to buy a big house, and his monthly debts racked up to more than twenty thousand yen.

Besides that colossal commitment, he also had two sons and a newly born daughter.

Not to mention his wife, a total of five members in the family, and he was the sole breadwinner.

His Kobayashi Pharma earnings were considered very high, with a monthly income of about seventy to eighty thousand yen. As such, he lived a very comfortable life, and his wife and children had an upper-class lifestyle, enjoying a luxurious daily consumption.

Nevertheless, sudden unemployment would instantly plunge his family into a severe financial crisis. There would be a monthly shortage of at least fifty thousand yen, and if he could not find a job that would pay more than that, his family would fail to sustain themselves.