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In Wakayama, Hatsu had received
a letter from her eldest son, Ainosuke.

It's sour.

Your pickled plums
always tastes good, Hatsu.

What does Ainosuke say?

He's finished his apprenticeship,
and he's officially a bank clerk.

He's getting a salary, too.

A salary? How nice.

That's something
to celebrate.

He also wrote how much
he's enjoying his work

at the bank and all the
people who work there.

He seems to be fine.

What's this?

I bought this with
my first pay.

It works well on
rough hands.

Please try it, Mom.

Ainosuke!

Hello!

It's Set-chan.

Hey! Not Set-chan again!

That boy!

Yonosuke is popular with the
young girls in the village.

Asa ga Kita

Week 20
"What I Want To Talk About Now"
Episode 117

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

Sobei Mayuyama:
Tasuku EMOTO

Eizaburo Shirooka:
Akito KIRIYAMA

Miwa:
Sumika NONO

Izumi Narusawa:
Koji SETO

Heijuro Yamazaki:
Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Hatsu Mayuyama:
Aoi MIYAZAKI

What we have to do are
these two things.

First of all, we need to get
the people in Japan where

recognition of the need for
education is low, to

understand and
accept it.

Parallel to that, we need to get
government funding for the

establishment of a
women's college.

If these things don't go well, then this
business won't get off the ground.

I see...

I thought we should start by
getting people who will

donate money like
you suggested.

You're going to do that?

I can't let you do that.

Just as you said, I may not
know anything about

revenues and expenditures
but you should leave the

gathering of donations to me.

No! I'm a business woman.

So I'll handle everything
to do with money.

You're an educator, so
don't think about

anything else, and just
think about education.

In other words, you'll take
care of this side while

I take charge of this.

I'm so grateful.

I can't have that.

You're already responsible
for two companies, so

you're very busy.

I've always been busy,
so no matter how

busy it gets, it wont
bother me a bit.

Rather than fret about it,
we need to take action.

I want you to make this
into a book, and make

a guide book for establishing
a women's university.

Okay.

I'll take that guide book,
and go to all the wealthy

people, not only in Osaka,
but throughout Japan

one by one to
get donations.

I wrote down all the prominent
people that Kano-ya knows.

That many?

Nothing ventured,
nothing gained.

If they're intelligent, and
they read what you

wrote, they should understand
how important it is for women

to have higher education.

Please pull yourself together.

Even if I can help with
the money end,

you're the only who can
protect and pass on your ideas.

I don't know what to say.

I don't know what would have
happened if it weren't for you.

I told you we would work
toward the same goal, didn't I?

From now on,
I'm your ally.

Ms. Shirooka! I swear to you
that I will wear these clothes

for the rest of my life.

Never mind that... You keep
saying something about

"surpri... surpri..."
What does it mean?

Surprise...?

Let's see... It means...

The same thing as
your "bikkuri-pon."

It means "bikkun-pon"?

Is that what it means?

From there, Asa and the
Narusawa's supporters

set up a base for their operations in
Nakanoshima once they had the capital.

I think we should set a
goal of raising more

than 300,000 yen
in donations.

Once we raise 100,000 yen,
I want to undertake the

establishment of the
women's university.

However...

A university for women?

No!

Pardon the intrusion.

She couldn't get the well-known
businessmen and people in

the financial circles to
understand their goal.

Donation? That means you're
not going to hold onto the

money for me... You want
me to give it to you...?

That's right.

I thought someone with insight
like you would understand.

Is that what you wanted
to talk to me about?

I'm sorry... But women's education
from now on will sustain Japan.

You say women will
sustain Japan.

So if this women's university is
established how will we profit from it?

Let's see... If women are educated...
For example, there'll be a lot of

women who are well-educated
like your daughter, Sakae.

You can't ask for a bigger
profit than that, can you?

Sakae turned down
her marriage offer.

She said she enjoys her work
at the bank so she doesn't

really want to get married.

That's not why I wanted
her to be educated.

And now, you're talking about
a women's university...?

Don't be ridiculous.

I'm back.

Welcome back.

Mr. Kudo... I'm sorry
for being so rude.

I don't know how to apologize.

No... I have a good relationship
with Kano-ya, so I'll forget

what happened today.

No one in society wants
women to be educated.

I don't mean to contradict
you, Dad, but you're the

one who sent me to girls'
school to be educated

so I wouldn't end up to
be someone's puppet.

That's why I regret it.

Just having a little bit of
education, and you

stand up and challenge your
father in front of people

like this... It would have
been much better if

you'd turned into a puppet.

Kanoya's finally beginning
to prosper, so it would be

in your best interest not to get
involved in something strange like this.

How could you...!

Don't tell me you talked to
our most important client

about donating to money
for the university...?

Bank President...

I'm sorry.

Shall we sit down, and
talk about this?

I'm home.

Welcome home.

I heard from Eizaburo...

He really came down hard
on you, didn't he?

He did... I was only thinking of myself
again, and rushed headlong into it.

I caused a lot of trouble.

I guess there aren't that many
people like you and Narusawa-Sensei

who want women to be able
to get an education if they want to.

I'm not thinking such admirable
things like Narusawa-Sensei is...

Did you read it?

I was surprised that the man
who sang that strange song

was so educated, and had such
admirable ideas like this.

But it's difficult, after all.

A lot of paths have opened
up since we were little...

Isn't that what you said?

I thought so, but maybe the way society
thinks hasn't changed that drastically.

The important thing is what
kind of people you meet.

What do you mean?

A long, long time ago, a certain
little girl was told education

isn't something a girl needs
and was told she shouldn't

even talk about wanting
an education...

She lived a really
constrained life.

But then, a man like Hikaru
Genji appeared before her.

Hikaru Genji?

Like a knight in shining armor,
this man gave her a shiny,

red abacus...

So the knight in shining armor
gave her a shirty abacus?

That wasn't all. He told her
if she didn't want to, she

shouldn't get married, and
instead of doing as her

parents told her, he showed
her a new path in life.

Thanks to that, the little girl
learned to use the abacus,

learned the enjoyment
of learning, and on top

of that, she was allowed
to study business.

There must be a lot of girls today
who are living a constrained life.

But not all of them will
get an abacus like this.

A girl has the right to get
an education as a person

and as a citizen... I think the
women's university will be

a big signpost toward
something like that.

I see...

This time, you want to help
women to get this abacus.

That's my big goal right now.

But actually, I have another goal.

Another goal?

Someday, I want to learn
at that university...

If possible, together
with Chiyo.

If the university is established
I'll have Chiyo enter university,

and even if it's just once in a while,
I want to take classes there, too.

Since I'm already an old lady,
I don't mind if I have to

just sit in the farthest
corner in the class...

I don't know what Chiyo
will think about that.

But I suddenly feel like
rooting for you.

How did the other school
get their donations...?

That's what I thought, too.

So as far as private educational
institutions go, there's Keio

Gijuku or Tokyo Senmon Gakko,
so I went to Tokyo Senmon

Gakko to ask how they
acquired donations.

That's very bold.

It was Yukichi Fukuzawa, the
greatest scholar in Japan

who established Keio Gijuku,
and Shigenobu Okuma,

a Japanese politician who established
the Tokyo Senmon Gakko...

That's right. It's a big university
in the place called Waseda-mura.

So how did he acquire
the donations?

I was kicked out of there by the
person in charge of fund raising.

He said he couldn't discuss
something like that.

I'm sure he wouldn't.

They'd be in a bind if the people
donating to them were taken away.

Where are you going?

I'm going to write a
letter to Mr. Okuma.

I'm going to ask Shigenobu
Okuma directly...

At a time like this, we need to talk
to someone who's tolerant.

Tolerant?

That's right. If we get the key
point down, then everything

else will be easy.

Why didn't I think of it before?

Is she going to be okay?

Once she starts moving, there
was no stopping Asa.