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There he is.

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Asa!

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Kyutaro!

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Don't call me Kyutaro...
It's Tadatsugu.

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I'm already in charge of
important work.

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{\an8}ASA'S YOUNGER BROTHER
TADATSUGU IMAI

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You look so dignified.

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Didn't Dad and Mom
say anything?

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Don't worry.

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Besides, Mom went to a
seven year memorial

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service for someone in
the Imai branch family,

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so she went to Ichikawa
in Shimofusa to help out.

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Is Mom okay?

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She's fine... She's always
saying she's going to

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Osaka to see you one
of these days.

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I'm glad to hear that.

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What about Dad?

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I know I don't have to
worry about him.

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I'm sure he's fine.

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I don't mind telling you
about Dad and Mom,

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but ask me about what
I did in America.

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America was a great place.

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{\an8}YUKICHI FUKUZAWA

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I want to hear about
that the most.

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Is it true that all the
people in America

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are all over 6 feet
6 inches tall?

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Are you sure it's okay?

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Coming all the way to
Tokyo and not going

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to see your parents?

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I want to see them, but
I don't know how angry

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Dad will be if he hears that
I left my husband and

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Mother to take care of Chiyo
and came to Tokyo.

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You're right... He would be
really angry, wouldn't he?

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Wouldn't he? That's why...

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Did you just say that?

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Dad!

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 13
"Tokyo Story"
Episode 76

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Original Story:
Chieko FURUKAWA

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Screenwriter:
Mika OMORI

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Music by:
Yuuki HAYASHI

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Theme Song: "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki"
Sung by: AKB48

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Narrator:
Keiko SUGIURA

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Asa Shirooka:
HARU

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Tadaoki Imai:
Takeshi MASU

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Tomoaki Godai:
Dean FUJIOKA

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Toshimichi Okubo:
Shuji KASHIWABARA

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Yukichi Fukuzawa:
Tetsuya TAKEDA

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Tadamasa Imai:
Yoichi HAYASHI

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I thought Tadatsugu
was acting Strange.

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So since I had some
business nearby,

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I followed him here...

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I never thought
you'd be here.

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It's been a while.

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{\an8}ASA'S FATHER TADAOKI IMAI

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Don't give me that!

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Why didn't you tell me?

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You'll get angry.

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You're already angry.

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Of course I'm angry.

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If my married daughter
was coming out here,

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she'd bring my grandchild
and some gifts, and

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come to visit her parents.

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You didn't tell us you
were coming, you

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didn't bring Chiyo, and you
just came here to study!

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I brought gifts for you.

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I brought you millet brittle
from Amidaike in Horie.

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This is great. I'll give
this to Mom.

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Who cares about gifts!

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I'm sorry... But, Dad...

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Unlike when I was growing up,
the trend now seems to be

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that it's better for women
to have an education.

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Did you read the book by
Yukichi Fukuzawa called

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"An Encouragement
for Learning"?

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I was deeply impressed by
his words, "god did not

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"create people above people,"
but what I was even more

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surprised was the eighth part
published three years ago.

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He wrote, "to begin with,
men and women born

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"into this world
are all people."

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Women are people
just like men.

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The world should he made up
of both men and women.

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To begin with the only
difference men and

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women is physical strength.

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So it's unfair for women to have
to listen to everything a man

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tells them just because
they're women.

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So it's not strange for a
woman from now on

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to study and to exchange
opinions with men.

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That's right.

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Pardon me... Pardon
my rudeness.

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Except for the difference
in the way they're built,

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men and women are
undoubtedly equal.

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Whether you're a man or
a woman, if you drink

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hot tea, it's hot... If you
eat confections, it's

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delicious, and just as men
think that they want to

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play, women sometimes will want
to let loose and play, too.

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If men want to learn a lot
so they'll be of use to

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society, women want
to study a lot, and

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be of use to society.
This is inevitable.

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Men and women are
the same thing.

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But how is it in reality?

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Even if a woman think the
tea is hot, if the man says

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that it's warm, a woman
will agree with him,

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and endure... For example,
if a man says playing is a

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part of his job, a woman
will say that's just how

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it is while she stays home
doing the housework...

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Just enduring it all.

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Japanese women were taught
to obey their parents when

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they're born, their husbands
when they many, and their

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children when they grow old.

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But if we Japanese men
were told that same

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thing, would we obey?
Would you obey?

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Would you?

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Would you?

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No, I wouldn't...

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Aren't you the man we
met in Shinbashi?

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No... No matter what status
a person holds, our freedom

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and independence must
not be hampered.

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That's how I feel.

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I feel the same way
toward women.

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But in order for a woman
to live like that, I think

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it'll be quite difficult when
actually put into action.

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I have understanding parents
and a husband to give me

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support, and yet it's difficult.
Why is that?

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In order to live freely away
from your husband and

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family, a woman has to achieve
financial independence...

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You must have the assets and
hold heavy responsibilities in society.

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Responsibility?

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Independence and
self respect.

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Learn a lot, work hard
and earn money.

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Someday... You should
become a female

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president of a company.

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President?

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I don't mean to be rude,
but are you Fukuzawa...?

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Pardon me... Pardon me.
It's been a pleasure...

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I'll take just one of these.
It brings back memories.

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Pardon me. Pardon me.
It was a pleasure.

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He left.

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So a new woman has finally
come out in Japan.

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Seven years later, Yukichi
Fukuzawa will publish

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a book about a new
age of women with

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the title, "On Japanese Women."

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Fukuzawa's books would give
Asa moral support for years to come.

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You met Mr. Okubo?

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Please keep it a secret

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in between his busy schedule,
Mr. Okubo stops by to see

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Mr. Godai once in a while.

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I was so moved. He had such
big and warm hands...

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He really was a nice man
who didn't put on airs.

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What's going on anyway?

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What happened with
your coal mine?

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After getting into coal mining,
I can see that it's work

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that has a future, so I'm
trying to do what I can

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to get it back into
working order.

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If you look at it in the
long range, right now

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is the time we just
have to be patient.

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But it's put my plans to
become a bank like

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yours into the distant future.

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Running a bank is
pretty difficult.

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The idea of leaving money
you have to play with

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in a bank, and having the
bank lend that money to

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people who need it still hasn't
taken root in Japan.

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Is that right?

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But I'm sure it won't
be long now.

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Walking around this town
with Mr. Godai, I realized

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that this country's flower of
civilization is trying to blossom.

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I'm sure that the people who
will come to Imai for money

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to turn to gold isn't
that far off.

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I see...

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It's a time for both of us
to be patient, isn't it?

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How impertinent.

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Oasa...

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I'm sorry.

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I'll have to acknowledge it...

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When I talk to Asa, I don't feel
like I'm talking to a woman.

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Rather than thinking of her
as a man or a woman,

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she's already a business woman.

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Why not raise Asa as a man?

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We'll say that Asa is actually
a man, and let Asa take

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over the Imai family.

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I lost, Dad.

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Is it okay?

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Isn't this the treasured liquor
you bought in England?

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{\an8}EAST KOSEIKAN

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I decided from a long
time ago that you're

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the only one I wanted to
open and drink this with.

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Doesn't it suit your
sweet tooth?

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Do you think that I'm a
half-baked politician, too?

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What are you saying?

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You're thinking about Japan's
future more than anyone else.

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If you get weak-hearted...

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No... I'm going to
change from now.

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Up until now, I've had interference
from overseas and from clan

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dominated members, and
couldn't do anything freely.

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But from now on...

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I'm going to do a lot.

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That's the spirit.

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That's the Okubo that
I've always known.

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It's been 10 years since
the Meiji era began...

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I think it'll take another
20 years before a new era is complete.

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20 years?

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Which means a total
of 30 years?

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That's right.

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The ten years up until now
was to start to make

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things happen and
to settle down.

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Then the next 10 years will
be shaping the government

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and construction to bring
life into public industry.

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I'll need you to work
even harder now.

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You, too.

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I'll push myself for
another 10 years.

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Then the next 10 years
is when a new Japan

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will finally be complete.

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I see... I wonder what kind
of country Japan will be then.

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It's going to be a country as
strong as any foreign country.

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I won't use strong arm tactics.

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The really strong don't
do things like that.

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War only destroys...

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I've had enough of that.

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Is that from a cherry?

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Mr. Okubo... You forgot
just one thing...

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You've thought of industry,
agriculture, culture and

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education in detail, but
you're forgetting about

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building a way to
nurture our women.

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Now that you mention it,
I did forget about that.

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Maybe by doing that, there
might be a way that's

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hidden to make our country
strong without fighting.

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It's time for your first
penguin to make her appearance.

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I guess your love of
women isn't all bad.

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What are you saying?

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Let's drink, and talk
more about Japan.

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{\an8}SEVERAL DAYS LATER

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It was time for Asa
and Ume to go back to Osaka.

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Did you spend the night
here again last night?

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I drank too much.

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I'd better get going.

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It's time to see Asa off.

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After that, don't forget you
have a meeting with Mr. Shibusawa.

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I know.

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The weather doesn't
look too good today.

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Mr. Godai!

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I have terrible news.

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Secretary of Interior
Okubo assassinated.

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Assassinated?

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It happened on
May 14, 1878.