Episode 3:Meeting a jeweler in Jaipur

After touring the jewels in Delhi, I was taken to Jaipur, the jewel capital of India, known as the Pink City.

The size and selection of the store, which has been awarded by the Indian government for over 20 years, was incomparable to anything I had seen in Delhi.
Obviously, there was something much bigger and better here than what I saw in Delhi.
The president, Mr. Manoj, who took over as president that year, was a dignified man with a passion for jewelry, but he was difficult to negotiate with, and rarely received discounts.
I continued to look at jewelry here from morning to night for three days, but in the end I didn't buy anything.



Fateful 4th day

Then, on the fourth day, I was thinking of giving up if I couldn't buy it here.
On the fourth day, when I was about to give up, the situation suddenly changed.
The attitude and response of store staff has changed, and prices have also come down.
Using all the 3 million yen I brought with me, I was able to make the best purchases at that time.

Why did this happen? ? ?

At that time, I couldn't understand it at all.
However, the secret will be revealed later.



astrologer's prediction

In fact, this Jaipur family was extremely wealthy, with assets said to be in the trillions of yen, and they were known as the "Kings of Jaipur."
They had a famous astrologer who was visited by Bill Gates and Richard Branson.
After Manoj told his parents about a vivid dream he had when he was 15 years old, his family visited an astrologer.
The content of the dream was that a person named ``Kamoto'' would come from Japan and become a lifelong partner and lifelong friend, and that the company and family would develop by being associated with that person.
As a result of his calculations, the astrologer said, ``There is no doubt about it. In the year that Mr. Manoj becomes president, a person named Kamoto will come from Japan.
Don't let this person go.
He declared, ``By dating this person, you will definitely have a good destiny.''
Since I am a Kawamoto, I didn't realize it at first, but since the pronunciations of Kamoto and Kawamoto are almost the same, my father said, "It must be this person!" and everyone was convinced.
Everyone was convinced that the astrologer's prediction was correct because I appeared in the same year that Mr. Manoj took over as president.
After that, I became close friends with Mr. Manoj for over 30 years, and we became part of the family.



The hardships of selling jewelry

I brought back 3 million yen worth of jewelry to Japan, but I had no experience with jewelry, no connections, and no customers.
Although I was happy that I was able to buy something good at such a low price, I didn't think about how to sell it.
At that time, there was no internet sales and I was at a loss as to what to do.
I had no choice but to start a street vending business in front of Alta in Shinjuku and in Harajuku.
They line up their products on scraps of cloth and sell them, but they are quickly chased away by Ya◯za and Ke◯Satsu.



It was a cat-and-mouse game where when they left, they started again and were chased away again.

At that time, they sold inexpensive jewelry ranging from 500 yen to 5,000 yen at most, but now they sell pink diamonds worth up to 50 billion yen.
It's 100 million times more than it was then.
I never dreamed that it would turn out like this.
At that time, I was desperately trying to make enough sales to survive day by day.

This hardship continued for a while, but eventually a turning point came.

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