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I was looking at the insurance
company that you started

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and with the poor economy, you haven't
written any new policies, have you?

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No... After the war ended,
because we paid out

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insurance claims, people in
Japan finally appreciated

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the idea of life insurance...
But the competition has

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gotten fierce lately.

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Don't tell me that you
intend to not only

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sell the coal mining business,
but the life insurance, too?

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No... I'm thinking of
making it bigger.

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Asa ga Kita

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Week 25
"A Life To Be Proud Of"
Episode 146

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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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Tomoatsu Godai:
Dean FUJIOKA

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Kisuke:
Hiroki MIYAKE

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Ume:
TOMOCHIKA

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Eizaburo Shirooka:
Akito KIRIYAMA

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Chiyo Shirooka:
Fuuka KOSHIBA

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Izumi Narusawa:
Koji SETO

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Heijuro Yamazaki:
Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

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Nobuo Furuta:
Seiji MIYANE

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Iwao Tominaga:
Sadatomo MATSUDAIRA

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Just like our company,
there are a lot of

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other insurance companies
that are in distress...

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So I was thinking of
finding two of them

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and working together
with them to merge with

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our company to make an
even bigger company.

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A merger?

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But right now, insurance
continues to show a

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deficit, and on top of that, we're
in the midst of a financial panic!

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That's right. We can't get into
something as complex as a merger.

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That's right.

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Let's try to bringing the
company back to

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profitability ourselves.

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When things are unstable,
people usually look

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toward something
big to rely on.

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But if a small company
tries to protect itself,

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eventually, it'll be swallowed
up by a bigger company,

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and that's the end of it.

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So we should make our
company bigger and

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take the lead in the
insurance industry.

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Don't tell me that you
sold the coal mines

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with this in mind from
the beginning?

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You're right.

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Just as you said, this
country has finally

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realized the virtues of
having life insurance.

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Among Kano-ya's businesses,
life insurance is a business

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that has the best potential
for Japan's future.

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So we need to
make it bigger.

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This is a list of insurance
companies that are

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rumored to be on the
verge of closing down.

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There are companies from north
to south, aren't there?

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If we reach out to companies
who are in trouble, it will give

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us the advantage in negotiating
a merger with them.

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This is a golden opportunity.

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These are the people the bank president
wants to invite to the reception.

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It's a list of Osaka's
leading businessmen.

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This many people?

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Of course... At a time like this,
we have to introduce Keisuke

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all over Osaka, and show them
that Kano-ya will be in good

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hands in the future.

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I'll leave the rest to you.

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Do your best, Chiyo...

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This will be your first big
job as Keisuke's wife.

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I know.

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Dad... Mom...

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Keisuke and I talked about
where we're going to live...

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We're thinking that there's
no need to rush into

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building a house for us.

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We don't think it's right
for us to be extravagant

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when the bank is having
such a hard time.

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And I've heard that the
trading business is also

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having a hard time now.

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That's true...

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With the new commercial law,
we finally have a structure

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that's the same as
other countries.

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This is just the beginning.

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In that case, we thought we'd
just rent a place close by.

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I want to get to know Osaka
better before I build a house.

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So that's what
we decided...

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You've thought
that far ahead.

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Also from the next time,
whenever I come over,

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will you let me participate
in your meetings?

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Of course, I'll just stay
in the background...

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I just want to learn more
about the business.

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You certainly are
enthusiastic.

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I'm really grateful that
you'd ask to do that.

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What a surprise.

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Thank you, Keisuke.

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Wait a minute...

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Mistress!

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That sounds like Hei-san!

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Mistress! I have good news.

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What happened?

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Coming here dressed like that.

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He was taking a bath and
just ran over here.

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A newspaper reporter who's
a good friend of mine

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came over to the house.

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He said that the Bank of Japan
has decided to give relief

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funding for Osaka's
financial panic.

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Really?

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That's great.

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It's good news, isn't it?

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With this, the banks and
Osaka will be secure...

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I'm so glad.

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I heard that lately, there are brides
who wear a dress for the wedding.

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I never really cared for women
in western-style dresses.

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You prefer kimono?

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So do I.

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But your mother's western-
style dresses aren't bad.

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I'm happy that you get
along with my mother...

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But if you say anything
more, I'll get jealous.

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No... It's nothing.

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Keisuke is someone we can
depend on, isn't he?

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If he's like that, then I have
nothing to worry about

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and can leave
Chiyo in his hands.

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That's true... I feel as though a new
wind will blow through Kano-ya.

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I think so, too.

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Lately, I often remember
things from the past.

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For example...

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Who was it that created
this Meiji society...

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Damn you!

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Of all the things to remember!

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To think that 30 years have
gone by since then.

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That's true... The kind of
country that Mr. Godai

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and Mr. Okubo had hoped for is
finally starting to come about.

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Do you think Mr. Godai will
praise me and say that

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I've accomplished some
good in this country?

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I wonder about that.

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it's unusual for you to talk
about the past, isn't it?

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Is it?

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It is.

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The new morning, just as
Heijuro had said, there

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were reports in the newspapers
saying that the Bank of Japan

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had decided on relief funding
for Osaka's financial panic.

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Thank you!

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Who would have thought
that all that money that

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was taken out of our bank
would just turn around

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and come back to us.

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It's just cash, after all.

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The economy is
still unstable...

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I want to get your approval
for this life insurance

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division while the insurance
industry is still weak.

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If you approve this life
insurance division,

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we can increase the amount
of long-term savings.

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The movement to merge
with other life insurance

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companies proceeded at once.

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{\an8}HINODE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY

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Meanwhile, Asa...

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...went to Tokyo with Shinjiro,
and attended the university

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classes that she had
dreamed of taking.

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This is what Juliet said...

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"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore
art thou Romeo?"

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So you're putting
it all together...

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Yes... Mr. Narusawa asked me
to devise a self-governing

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organization for the students.

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Mrs. Shirooka... Hello!

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Hello...

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The next time you come,
you should sit in on

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Mr. Narusawa's lecture
on practical ethics.

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His impassioned speech
is like a pillar of fire

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spewing from a volcano.
It's something else.

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I'd like to hear it.

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How's the dormitory?

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Although I'm the resident
advisor, I'm cursed with

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an ignorance of the world
and I'm already at a loss

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as to what kind of kitchen
utensils we'll need to buy.

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Chiyo must be hard
at work getting

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ready for her wedding...

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Yes, she is.

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I see... So Chiyo will
eventually be a lady

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wearing a dress in her
western-style house.

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Chiyo wearing a dress?

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That's right. Ever since
she was a child, she

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loved dresses, but it seems
that someone she didn't

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like wore one first...

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That's why out of stubborn
pride, she's pretended all

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this time not to be interested
in wearing dresses.

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Someone she doesn't like?

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What do you think?

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Does it look good on me?

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Not at all.

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I didn't even
realize it.

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Mrs. Shirooka!

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Mr. Narusawa.

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Come in.

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Are you sleeping here?

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Yes, I am.

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Where's your husband?

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He went with Kisuke to take
a walk around the university.

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You even have patches
on your coat...

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I just want to stay close to
the students as much as possible.

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Just as we suffered to establish
this university, they're fighting

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against the prejudiced view
of why women need to

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go to college and yet they've
decided to attend our school.

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I love all of them.

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I'll do anything to
see them grow.

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I want to talk to
them more.

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One of these day, please
give a lecture here.

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Me?

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But I don't know what
to talk to them about.

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Your life experience in itself
is a guidepost for them.

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Just talk about anything.

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If you insist, then I'd really
love to do it someday.

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Have some tea.

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It's delicious.

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I'll have another.

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After returning
to Osaka...

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I went to see this
Furukawa Life

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insurance in Tokyo, and
it wasn't a bad company.

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The Ministry of Agriculture and
Commerce recommended

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this one and this one here.

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The area they do business
and the type of clients

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they have are different from
ours, so if we merge

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it might be advantageous
to both of us.

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Will you start negotiations with
the ones you put circles on, Hei-san?

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Leave it to me.

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It won't do any of us any
good to roll ourselves

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into a ball with this golden
opportunity in the insurance industry.

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If we compare and adjust
the contents of our

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contracts, and revolutionize
it all into something good,

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there's no mistake that we'll
see a sudden rise over what

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we could do individually.

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How are we going to
elect the directors?

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To begin with, our clientele
is completely different.

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And at the beginning
of the new year...

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They're here!

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Furukawa Life Insurance that
had been doing business

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in the Kyobashi ward of Tokyo...

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And Fukuho Life Insurance
that had been founded by

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a wealthy man in Kyushu were chosen
for the Kano-ya Life Insurance merger.

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Mr. Furuta... Mr. Tominaga...

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Welcome to Osaka.

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It's the final turning point
in the birth of Kano-ya's

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largest business undertaking.