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That mountain is
Sanouji-ya, isn't it?

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Hatsu and Sobei's mother,
Kiku passed away.

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I'm going to live the
rest of my life here.

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So...

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Don't worry and go
back to Osaka.

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And Asa and Hatsu's mother
Rie, passed away, too.

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Mom...

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You were a good daughter.

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You've become a daughter
I'm proud of now.

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In the spring, after graduating
from girls' school, just as she

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wanted, Chiyo started
her bridal training.

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Good morning.

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And her close friend Nobu
through the good offices

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of Asa began working
as an apprentice

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Shinjiro! This is terrible.

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What is it? What's wrong?

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Gansuke hit his head while
working, and collapsed.

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Gansuke?

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They received news that Gansuke
who ran a factory in Kobe,

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had gotten into an accident.

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 23
"The Palm of the Chief Clerk's Hand"
Episode 133

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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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Kisuke:
Hiroki MIYAKE

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Gansuke:
Takaya YAMAUCHI

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Eizaburo Shirooka:
Akito KIRIYAMA

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Chiyo:
Fuuka KOSHIBA

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Izumi Narusawa:
Koji SETO

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Heijuro Yamazaki:
Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

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Yono Shirooka:
Jun FUBUKI

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it seems a kerosene can fell
from a shelf above, and hit

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Gansuke on the head.

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If it hit his head,
that's serious!

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How's Gansuke?

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He's still unconscious.

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Spread it out,
and flatten it.

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That's it.

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He's been unconscious
for days now...

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I'm worried.

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The chief clerk...?

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Actually there's more to
Gansuke's wife's letter...

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She wants us to
send her money.

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Money?

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Since the person who runs
the business collapsed,

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they must be in a bind.

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I was thinking of going over
there, and talking to her.

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I'll go with you.

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I'll go, too.

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You can't!

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Even if it's okay for the bank
president and president

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can manage, your schedule
is full with appointments

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for the women's university.

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You just don't have the
time to go over there.

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And you have to go to Kyushu
again at the end of the month.

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The new development that
you started there is about

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to be finished. Of course, I'm
worried about Gansuke, too.

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You're right. I'll go around
with Nobu so you go to

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Kobe with my husband and
the bank president.

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But...

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Also...

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You're telling me
to go to Kobe.

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That's right. I want
you to go.

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I can't do that. Why me?

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Why? Why can't you go?

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Gansuke and I just worked as
servants under the same

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family for a while so there's
no reason for me to go

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to visit him in Kobe.

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His wife and family
are over there.

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But... If he never regains
consciousness, you'll

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never see him again.

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It doesn't matter. When he
left Kano-ya, I thought

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I'd never see him
again anyway.

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You'll never see
his face again...

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Thank you for coming.

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The next day...

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{\an8}OFFICE FOR ESTABLISHING
THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY

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We have a letter from
Mr. Narusawa in Tokyo.

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We do?

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Through the good offices of
Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito,

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I met with Mr. Saionji, the
Minister of Education and

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Mr. Konoe of the National
Institute of Education

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today and got their approval.

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Just as you said, if I have
something to say,

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I shouldn't give up, and
say what must be said.

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Thank you very much,
Ms Shirooka...

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This is great.

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We've expanded our personal
connections, haven't we?

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Yes... He also wrote that
he's going to meet with

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Taisuke Itagaki and Eiichi
Shibusawa later, too.

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Just as you said, once we grasp
the vital points, the vest will

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go smoothly, won't it?

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It's not that easy.

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Mr. Shibusawa has an understanding
of education, so when negotiating

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with him, the contents will
be called into questions.

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Is that right? I'm sorry... I didn't
mean to be so thoughtless.

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Not at all... For now,
this is good news.

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So we here in Osaka have
to work even harder.

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Excuse me... I'm pleased
to meet you.

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I sent you a letter the other
day, I'm Kano-ya...

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So you're the notorious
female bank president?

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I have no interest at all
in a women's university,

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so will you please leave.

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I understand how
you feel, but...

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What's written in this
book about education

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is supported by Prime
Minister Hirobumi Ito

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and Shigenobu Okuma.

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So what if they are?

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I don't care who supports it,
I'm saying that I don't want

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to have anything to do with
something like that.

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All right. I'll just leave this
right here, so if you're so

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inclined, maybe you could just
glance through it once.

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Thank you for your time.

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Nobu... Let's go.

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Asa refused to give up, and
expanded her activities

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from Osaka to Kyoto
and Kobe, but...

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She didn't achieve any
noticeable results.

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Sensei!

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It's really unbearable...

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No matter that the interest
in women's education has

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increased in part, it's not
that easy to erase the

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old ideas that women don't
need to be educated, is it?

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Besides, the bad rumors
about me have gotten

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to them before I get there,
so there are a lot of times

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where I'm turned away
as soon as I arrive.

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That's right. On top of that,
some people are saying

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"that old lady still hasn't
learned her lesson even

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"after she was stabbed."

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I felt like kicking them.

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That's how I feel, too.

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Sakae!

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Tamura!

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I'm sorry.

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I would think you've learned
your lesson by now.

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It's an important time for
the coal mines, too.

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You should forget about getting
involved with something

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as troublesome as that.

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I'm sorry for making you worry so much.

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Besides, if I should invest in this,

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and you can't acquired enough
donations as you planned, and

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the venture goes down the drain,
what do you plan to do?

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If, by some slim chance, that
should happen, Mr. Yamakura

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and I will carry the balance
of the funding ourselves

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so we don't inconvenience
any of our other investors.

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So please keep in mind that
this old lady who hasn't

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learned her lesson is saying
things like this again.

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Mistress... It's fine for Mr. Yamakura
who's an extremely rich man, but

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Kano-ya has just overcome
adverse circumstances,

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so we can't carry that
kind of a burden.

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It's just to show how
resolved I am.

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The premise is to get donations
after gaining support...

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But as you already know,
no matter how much

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our country grows, the way
we think of women here

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will fundamentally
never change.

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Never...?

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I'm sorry.

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I went too far.

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No... Thank you for telling
me how you really feel.

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Since I know that you would
never lie, rather than people

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who just say that we need
the power of women or

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that women are equal to men,
I take what you say to heart.

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You're right. It's really
difficult to change a way

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of thinking that's been around
for so many years.

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That's why we need a lot of
penguins who will jump

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in fearlessly even if people
say that we haven't

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learned from our experience.

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Penguin?

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Even if I'm eaten
up by a shark,

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we have to develop the
brains of women so

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that even greater penguins
will be born right away.

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That's what the university is for.

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Isn't it?

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Yes.

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I'll be going now.

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She really is unbelievable.

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Meanwhile, Shinjiro and the
others had arrived in Kobe.

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Are you Gansuke's wife?

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I'm Shinjiro from Kano-ya.

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You came all this way...?

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I'm pleased to meet you.

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I'm Eizaburo Shirooka, the
eighth generation head

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of Kano-ya... I was the one
you sent the letter to.

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I'm Gansuke's wife.

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My husband was indebted to
Kano-ya for so many years

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My husband was indebted to
Kano-ya for so many years

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I guess it's not for a wife
who left her husband

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a long time ago to say...

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I'm sorry about the
terrible accident.

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This is my daughter, Tsuge
and our adopted son-in-law.

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How's Gansuke?

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{\an8}GANSUKE'S DAUGHTER and HUSBAND
TSUGE             TAKEO

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When he hit his head, they
think there might have

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been bleeding inside his head.

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To be honest, the doctor
doesn't hold much hope.

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Gansuke...

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How did this happen?

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Are you okay?

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With Father in this condition,
it's the end for our factory.

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Don't cry... it can't be helped.

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But... As soon as they heard that
Father collapsed, all of the

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wholesalers and suppliers that we've
had a good relationship with, asked

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us to repay the money
they loaned us...

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Gansuke!

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Gansuke...

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He hasn't moved
for days now.

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Is that right?

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I'm back!

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Welcome back!

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Do you have a minute?

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I'm sorry... I'd like you
to take a look at this.

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Is this true?

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The signs of the time were
steadily drawing closer for Asa, too.