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My husband...?

I think there's something wrong with you,

after all, isn't there?

You didn't eat much for breakfast this morning.

You're right.

Maybe I won't go to Amagasaki.

Kisuke!

Yes?

Will you tell Mr. Kawai in Amagasaki that I won't

be able to make it tomorrow?

Tell him I'll be there for next month's meeting.

All right. What about the Chamber of Commerce?

That's right... Tell Mr. Mori over there...

Mr. Mori?

Asa got more and more worried as the days went by.

Asa ga Kita

Week 25 "A Life To Be Proud Of" Episode 150

Original Story: Chieko FURUKAWA

Screenwriter: Mika OMORI

Music by: Yuuki HAYASHI

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

Narrator: Keiko SUGIURA

Asa Shirooka: HARU

Shinjiro Shirooka: Hiroshi TAMAKI

Kisuke: Hiroki MIYAKE

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo Shirooka: Fuuka KOSHIBA

Izumi Narusawa: Koji SETO

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Haru Hiratsuka: Yuko OSHIMA

Hatsu Mayuyama: Aoi MIYAZAKI

In 1903, after overcoming the financial panic two years

before Kano Bank's deposit balance continued to soar.

And Yodogawa Life Insurance drastically increased the

number of insurance contracts.

Besides the whole life insurance, endowment insurance, and

term life insurance, what if we separate pure endowment

insurance into training for men and marriage for women?

The more products we have the easier it is to get contracts.

I think it's a good idea.

Look at this!

"Female students and corruption are like the rose and the nightingale."

They make it sound as if women studying in town are involved

in a hotbed of corruption.

The women are trying so hard.

There's no use for you to get so upset.

But... It's upsetting!

I'm not a child!

But... Thank you.

So what happened with the Hinode students today?

They all went to the national industrial exhibition.

Right now the colored lights are beautiful, aren't they?

Until a little while ago, the Chausuyama mountain

used to be a lonely place where you'd only see foxes and raccoon dogs.

Come to think of it, the nights during the Edo period were dark, weren't they?

You used to hold the paper lantern out in front like

this, and light the way.

We used to walk together like this.

It's nostalgic, isn't it?

It is...

Yonosuke...

What are you going to do from now?

I don't know...

How long are you going to stay here?

You can't manage all by yourself from now on, can you?

If you would grow up really fast...

Don't be ridiculous.

I'm the eldest son...

I should come back home...

No, you mustn't...

You can't do that.

But...

Thank you.

But we're okay now.

We could sell half the mountain...

If we can live a life that's suitable for us, that's good enough.

As long as we can smile and live our lives...

That's enough.

You'd better become a great businessman.

That's right. You can go back already...

Let's both show Dad what we can do best.

That's right.

We all want you to do your best at what you want to do.

I do, too.

Isn't that right, my husband?

For the sake of my child, I'd like to live in a place

surrounded by a green forest someday.

That sounds good.

In that case, the area around Ashiya might be good, wouldn't it?

Ashiya?

That right... The foreigner might be able to build you

a house that has the best of the west and Japan.

That sounds good.

Sounds good, but...

My stomach hurts.

Ochiyo!

Chiyo!

HINODE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY

Mr. Narusawa asked me to give a talk in front of

all of you today, so I'd like to do that.

Did you read the article that came out in the newspaper last week?

I think that it's regrettable that they would write

about the female students studying in Tokyo like this.

I don't think we have students at this university who are

as corrupt as they've written here, but those who are

studying here have to be more responsible about their own actions.

We have people thinking that the students at this university with

its magnificent building aren't living up to the ideals of the school,

so it's meaningless to have higher education for women...

She talks too much.

Mr. Narusawa and Mr. Kinuta sacrificed themselves for

the sake of women's education.

What I hope for is for all of you to live in good faith

and devote yourselves to your studies.

Please don't forget that anything you do will discredit this school

in the eyes of society.

What a disgustingly arrogant old lady.

This student's name was Haru Hiratsuka who

would later be known as Raicho Hiratsuka.

I'm sorry... I went on too long, didn't I?

I'm grateful to you.

You're the only woman who can come right out and say

those things to the students.

But if you're so sharp tongued, the young girls will dislike you.

It doesn't matter to me whether they like or dislike me.

I just want the students who are finally able to

come and study here are acknowledged by society.

Asa-Sensei!

We just got a call in the administration office,

and Chiyo's...

Take it slowly..

What am I going to do?

It's 10 days before I'm due.

You don't have to worry about your due date...

in the past, we had no idea when the baby

would be born.

That's right.

This is terrible...

It's terrible.

How's Chiyo?

She hasn't given birth yet.

The baby's here!

I'm so glad. She did it!

Congratulations.

Thank you! Thank you!

Congratulations!

She's so tiny.

She sure is a healthy baby.

Asa... Let Keisuke hold her...

Here you go, Keisuke.

Hold her here...

Up here, too.

Chiyo... You really did well, didn't you?

Mom...

This really was hard.

I'm surprised you managed to give birth to me.

So you finally realized what I went through.

But the realty hard part is still to come.

Father...

Here you go.

I'm so grateful...

She's so beautiful.

It's raining again.

It is, isn't it?

Mitsuwari system?

The system started by Mr. Ito, the businessman from Omi?

That's right.

With that system, profits will directly affect their pay.

I thought the employees would be more prepared

to carry a portion of the burden of our business.

It would be an incentive.

I'm surprised you can work when your

grandchild was just born.

I'd really would like to spend more time

with my grandchild...

Father's looking after her, and thinking of what

we should name her.

Sounds just like him.

What is this?

I had the doctor make this up...

The early symptoms of illness...

So we need to have the customers go to see a

doctor before they enter into our insurance.

LOSS OF APPETITE TASTE DISORDER

You didn't eat much for breakfast this morning...

The aroma of the tea is a little different.

Asa...

My husband...

Come with me to the hospital...

Please...

All right.

Shall we go then?