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I...

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...was thinking it might be
best to sell the mountain.

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Mr. Kurakake said if we're
having trouble, he'll look

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for someone to buy
it from us.

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Of course... I won't sell it all.

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I'll leave half of the mountain,
and sell the other half...

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Is it because Dad can't
move anymore?

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But if we can get through
two more winters, then

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Yonosuke will come home.

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Then even if Ainosuke goes
back to Osaka, we can go

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on the way we have been.

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I hate to admit it, but...

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I'm getting old, too.

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In the past, even when Dad
got sick, I could do the

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work of two or three men.

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But now, no matter how
hard I try, I can't move

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the way I used
to back then.

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TOKYO OKUMA RESIDENCE

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Ready?

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This is...!

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Did you mean a match
playing Go?

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Okuma occasionally
plays with Mr. Imai,

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who always says that his big
sister, Asa, is pretty good.

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Thank goodness! I thought you
meant a sumo wrestling match.

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Ever since the newspapers
printed a caricature of

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Okuma sumo wrestling an
Octopus, I don't really

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care for sumo wrestling.

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Asa... Let's play!

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 24
"Grandma's Great Task"
Episode 140

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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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Sobei Mayuyama:
Tasuku EMOTO

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Kisuke:
Hiroki MIYAKE

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Chiyo Shirooka:
Fuuka KOSHIBA

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Miwa:
Sumika NONO

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Izumi Narusawa:
Koji SETO

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Heijuro Yamazaki:
Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

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Ayako Okuma:
Keiko MATSUZAKA

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Yono Shirooka:
Jun FUBUKI

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Hatsu Mayuyama:
Aoi MIYAZAKI

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I lost.

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After a close battle, Asa and
Ayako's first match ended

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with Asa winning.

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Thank you.

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Up until this point, I thought
I could win this match.

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Thank you very much.

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It's been a while since I've
played, so I was tense.

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Don't tell me that you
lost on purpose?

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No...

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But I thought that I might
have lost to you when

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it came to the saying "Behind every
successful man, there's a wise woman."

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That's not something
that you win or lose.

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What are you saying?
It's very important.

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Sorry to keep you waiting.

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I never expected the favor
you wanted to ask was

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for your daughter, Chiyo's
marriage meeting.

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I'm honored.

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{\an8}OSAKA ESTABLISHMENT OF A
WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY OFFICE

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I'm back.

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Welcome back.

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We'll take care of that.

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You just worry about
your speech.

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Do you have a minute?

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For the room at the hotel
for the meeting, did you

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want the biggest room?

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Yes... Get the biggest room.
We'll make use of it.

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I'm sure it'll be good publicity.

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Sorry to keep you waiting.

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I put together the list of the
people who'll be attending.

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Thank you.

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You work fast,
don't you?

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Thank you.

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Kisuke... isn't this one for
Shirooka a bit big?

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No, it's not.

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ASA SHIROOKA

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Not like that, Sensei.

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You have to make sure
the corners match...

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Really?

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Sensei!

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I told you... Not like that.

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The corners don't match.

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What's wrong with it?

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"A gold coin for a cat."

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"A school for cats."

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Cats have nothing
to do with this.

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Are you okay, Grandma?

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It's nothing... It's nothing,
but I keep having to drink

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more medicine... It's more
than I can take.

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You're so right.

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What is it? I can hear you
coming from a mile away.

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Chiyo... I got a letter
from Mrs. Okuma...

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What does it say?

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It's the date for the
marriage meeting.

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Keisuke won't be as busy
with his university classes

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toward the end of the
year, so they're asking

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if that would be
a good time.

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Aren't you glad, Chiyo?

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Shall we go?

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The next day, Asa headed
for Tokyo on the first

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train out of Osaka for the women's
university founders' meeting.

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There are people
who believe...

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...that women don't
need a university.

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In the past, even in
Britain and America,

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higher education for women
was considered rebellion

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against the government.

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People opposed it saying it's
like sending cats to school.

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But that was a long time ago.

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Right now, in powerful
countries, higher

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education for women
is only natural.

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But in our country, there
are people who say

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that it's too soon.

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If we wait until we really
need it, and rush to

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establish higher education
it'll be too late.

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Also the opinion that education
makes women impertinent...

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That has more to do with the
method of education.

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In other words we have
to change that.

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The war has ended.

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And half of our country's
citizens are women.

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Isn't it time for women's
education to progress?

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You're absolutely right!

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Thank you!

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Asa became one of
the founders, and

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the next day, they had a
grand reception at the

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hotel to announce the founding
of the women's university.

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With such a spectacular
announcement of the

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founding of the university,
and with so many

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well-known politicians attending,
it was written up in the papers.

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They created a sensation.

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However...

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They had a bigger response opposing
their cause than supporting it.

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That Narusawa is an impostor.

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Using the names of great
politicians like Ito and

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Okuma for power
and money.

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He's just trying to gain popularity
with his vainglorious exposure

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when all he wants is to gather
women to listen to his talks.

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Here you go.

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I found these things pasted
outside to harass us again.

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Again? They must have a
lot of time on their hands

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to keep coming back to
paste these things up.

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There must be a lot of other
things that need to be done.

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You're right. Sneaking
around in the shadows.

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They're such cowards.

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I thought we'd get the
rest of the money we

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needed judging from the
attendance at our

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spectacular announcement.

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It's because of the backlash
from the war economy.

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Even the bank is in danger.

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And with the cabinet
fighting like this...

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We got this letter from
Narusawa in Tokyo.

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"I feel terrible for the common
people, Ms. Shirooka,

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"Mr. Yamakure, the founders,
the students, my friends

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"and the people for making
things more difficult.

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"I feel the weight of
my responsibility.

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"I could die a thousand deaths."

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He's backing himself
into a corner again.

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The other day he said
he caught a cold,

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and when I went to
see how he was...

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He was lying in a tiny
room covered in a

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dirty, thin comforter.

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He was wasting away.

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He was saying that maybe
he should go back to

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teaching for now if we can't
get enough donations.

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He said that?

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I'm so upset.

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Why don't they understand?

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When Mr. Narusawa and all
of you are thinking about

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the future of Japan and
the future of women...

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Nobu... You don't have
to get so upset and cry.

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That's right... Nobu...

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Grandma... You're good at
that, after all, aren't you?

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Chiyo...

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Will you give me a hand?

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With what?

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Meanwhile in Tokyo...

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Mr. Higashiyanagi...
What brings you over here?

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Mrs. Okuma... I'm sorry!

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Ms. Shirooka?

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What is Asa up to?