Bad news... Good news

Just finished talking to the manager in Tokyo and he found out the results to my interview. The bad news is that apparently the group that interviewed me did not want me to join the team. The reasons of their decision were vague but from the Tokyo manager's view it was due to the fact of their conservative thinking and would not comply to hiring a foreigner. The manager told me not to get down because he had potential good news. Today was an executive meeting of all the global directors at the company and the manager brought up my situation in the meeting. His boss stated that HR's decision whether or not to hire me for my manager's team was not their decision to make. That director will visit Japan next week and my manager told me that they will discuss my hiring issue. The Tokyo manager also advised me to gather up all my contacts which include my manager and director (and also their friends) of the department to aid in them going against HR Japan. It seems that the fight is escalating and I seem to be the catalyst. I honestly do not know what will come out of this, but one thing is for sure, I won't know my future again for at least another week.