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This is the person

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I truly admire.

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{\an9}ASA SHIROOKA

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This is.

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Chiyo said she wants to
be a woman like you.

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Children really don't turn out
the way we want them to, do they?

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That's so true.

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Hatsu and Sobei's son,
Ainosuke was officially

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hired to work at Kano-ya.

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Do you have any interest
in women's education?

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I'm thinking of establishing
the first women's university in Japan.

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{\an8}IZUMI NARUSAWA

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I want you to help me
in establishing it.

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I had no idea there was
someone in this world

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who would come up with
Such a wonderful idea.

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What a surprise!

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 20
"What I Want To Talk About Now"
Episode 115

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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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Shinjiro Shirooka:
Hiroshi TAMAKI

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Tadaoki Imai:
Takeshi MASU

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Chiyo Shirooka:
Fuuka KOSHIBA

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Izumi Narusawa:
Koji SETO

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Yukichi Fukuzawa:
Tetsuya TAKEDA

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Yono Shirooka:
Jun FUBUKI

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Did he come today?

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He didn't come
today either.

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He didn't?

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In that manuscript, Narusawa
wrote that women should

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be educated as a person as
a woman, and as a citizen.

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With higher education, women
will find a purpose in life and

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the possibility or becoming useful
to society in many different areas.

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Women need the ability to become
independent and self-supporting

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by being skilled in one area.

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He had studied women's abilities,
thought of where it could be

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put to use, and taking a broader
view of women's education

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hundreds of years from now, he
had come up with a plan...

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A detailed plan to establish a policy
for women's education.

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Asa! What are you doing
in a place like this?

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What is she doing?

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She went to look for
him again today?

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As soon as the dormitory
class was over.

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Why is she going out every day
desperately looking for him?

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What kind of man
is this Narusawa?

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He's a young, poor
student-like man.

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Young?

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It seems he used to be a
girls' school teacher.

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A girls' school teacher?

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And when you take a good look
at him, he's quite handsome.

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Handsome? I see!

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I'm worried that he hasn't
been home all this time.

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That's right... I wonder
if he's eating properly.

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Oasa was worried that he
might have collapsed

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on the side of the
road somewhere.

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Why do all the women in
this household have to

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worry so much about him?

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A man is made stronger
than a woman, so

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you should just let him sleep on
the side of the road or anywhere.

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That's what you say, but can
you sleep on the road?

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No! I couldn't!

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Aunt Asa said that in the past,
she slept up in the mountains.

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Really? I wonder which
one is made stronger.

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That's probably when she
was much younger.

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I've heard so many of Asa's
tales of heroic exploits

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that it would take a lot for me
to be surprised at what she does.

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I'm home!

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I couldn't find Narusawa
Sensei again today.

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I see you're all here...

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What do you mean we're all
here when you just got home...?

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Are you going to eat?

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Please.

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Are you angry?

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How can I not fret about you
going around looking for a

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young, handsome man who's
good at handling women?

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You know how deeply this
manuscript touched me.

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For the first time in a long
time, I felt like something

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just pierced my heart.

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Pierced your heart?

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To be honest, ever since
I was little, I always

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thought that women should
learn the same as men.

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When you were
that little...?

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That's true.

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That's why when
Mr. Narusawa said...

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I'm thinking of establishing the
first women's university in Japan.

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At the time, I thought
he must be a great

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man to come up with
an idea like that.

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But no matter how much
conviction he had,

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it's an idea that's just
a dream, so there's

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no way it could
come true.

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He wasn't looking at reality.

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Ideals are wonderful, but
I don't think that you can do it.

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Even someone like you
doesn't understand!

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Besides, what he said and
his gestures seemed

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just for show and
exaggerated.

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And this manuscript, too...

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It seemed like he was saying,
"I have this great idea...

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"I'm on the side of
women like you,

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"so if you'll just loan me
a little money..."

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Which is like a lot of petitions and
prospectuses that come to the hank lately.

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Do you get a lot of those?

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Yes. There are so many
that even the manager

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is troubled about it.

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I'm surprised he thought of such
a thing as a university for women...

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That's so true. That really
is an outlandish idea.

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But this manuscript was entirely
different from what I thought.

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When I read this, I knew...

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That in the near future, there's going
to be a university for women in Japan.

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If what's written here
becomes a reality,

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I'm sure there will be.

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That man who isn't thinking
of women in a dandy or

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fanciful way... He's serious!

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Just thinking about it...

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Why are you crying
while you talk?

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But to have a man who thinks
so much about women and

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the future of women like this...

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Asa... You really must have
wanted to learn, didn't you?

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No wonder she wants
Chiyo to study.

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This is no time
to be crying.

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I have to take the time
to talk to him again

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in the near future.

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But I have to go to the coal
mine again from tomorrow.

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But for now...

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This brings back memories...

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When you were young, and sat here
reading all those books about business.

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It does bring back memories.

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Doesn't it?

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If that's what you have
to say about this...

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I guess I'll have
to read it, too.

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You mean you haven't
read it yet?

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How am I supposed to
read it when you're

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always carrying it
around with you?

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That's true. Pardon me.

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What do you think?

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About a women's university?

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Yes.

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I think it's a novel and
eye-opening idea...

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It's good to have people
who want to learn,

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learn as much as they want.

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Whether it's a man
or a woman...

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It doesn't make a
difference, does it?

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That's true.

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Come to think of it,
there was a strange

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man I met in Tokyo
a long time ago...

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If a man wants to learn
a lot, and be of use

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to society, then a woman
should learn, a lot and

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want to be of use
to society...

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This is inevitable.

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Men and women
are the same.

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A woman must become
independent financially

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in order to live her life free
from her husband and her family.

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Have her own assets and take
on a bigger responsibility in society.

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That's what he said...

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At the time, I thought it
was a really eye-opening

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idea, and it shook me up,
but when I returned

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to reality, I realized it was
a still a long way off.

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And now, it just hit me
that Yukichi Fukuzawa

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who I looked up to as my mentor,
wrote in his new book...

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I've seen this face before.

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But, Asa... In any era, most
of the people in society

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are so caught up in protecting
what they have now that

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they turn away from any
idea that's novel.

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As they say, if a nail sticks out,
it's hammered down...

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Anything that's ahead of its
time will be resented and

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have obstacles thrown
in its path.

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So I think that it's going to be really
difficult to make this idea come true.

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You're right. No matter how
novel the idea this young

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teacher has, if it's caught in
the flow of the era, it'll

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just end up buried in
no time at all.

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That's what it is.

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My husband...?

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No... Advisor...

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What's this? What do you
need advice on?

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While I'm away at the
coal mine, will you

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go out and find
this teacher?

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Don't be ridiculous!

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Why would I give up
my precious hobby...

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I mean my precious
business time,

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and do something like that?

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I see... I guess you
couldn't do it.

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Meanwhile in Kyoto, Chiyo was...

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Aren't you going home?

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They're telling me to
come home, but...

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I have a bad feeling...

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That my parents are going
to start asking me what

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I intend to do after
I graduate...

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That really is troublesome, isn't it?

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Every time we have a break, you
always go home to Osaka, don't you?

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Grandma always looks forward
to my coming home.

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What about Asa-Sensei...
Your mother?

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Mom?

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When you go home, to think
that Asa-Sensei is there...

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No matter how many times
I hear it, I don't believe it.

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Let me come and
visit you someday.

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Sure... Come and visit.

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I don't know if Mom
will be there or not.

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She's always going to the
coal mine in Kyushu or

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traveling all over the place.

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I guess that's true...
You must be lonely.

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I'm not lonely at all.

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It's normal for her to be
gone, so if she's home

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all of a sudden, I don't know
what to talk to her about.

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You mustn't say
things like that.

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The book I read, Asa-Sensei
said that being a working

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woman in Japan right at the start
of the Meiji era was very difficult.

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You read something
Mom wrote again?

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She said that the cave-in
at that coal mine long

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ago was her fault.
She blamed herself.

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That happened just
when I was born.

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Because of that accident,
the family business

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started to fail and it was
only after they paid

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back the debt that they
finally opened the bank.

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She said that the reason she
couldn't devote her time to

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working at that coal mine when
that accident happened was

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because she was pregnant
and stayed home in Osaka.

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She was probably
talking about you.

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Until then, she was working
at the coal mine, but she

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was busy with her baby in
Osaka and just at that

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time, they were shorthanded
at the coal mine...

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So she thinks that might
have had something to

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do with the accident,
and she regretted.

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It's probably really difficult to
work harder than anyone

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else and have a child to
take care of, too.

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You should be more
grateful, Chiyo.

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Chiyo felt a tightness in her
heart when Nobu told her the story.