WOWOW brings acclaimed author Toyoko Yamasaki's 1999 literary tour de force to life on the small screen for the very first time. Audiences have already received television adaptations of Yamasaki's other works – The Ivory Tower (白い巨塔), The Grand Family (華麗なる一族), The Waste Land (不毛地帯), A Son of the Good Earth (大地の子), and My Destiny (運命の人) – and can now add The Unbroken (沈まぬ太陽) to that list with this long-awaited production. Features a star-studded cast and additional filming on location in Africa and the Middle East.
Japanese study overview
Shizumanu Taiyo is a Japanese drama of 168,444 characters, with 8,390 unique words and 1,634 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.5 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 8,390 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×425
- 恩地Ochi×367
- 会長president (of a society)×277
- 航空aviation×246
- 君you×237
- 国民people (of a country)×234
- 組合association×221
- 会社company×193
- 社長company president×190
- 思うto think×189
- 言うto say×186
- 国見Kunimi×147
- 行天Gyouten×138
- 労組labor union×90
- 航Kō×83
- 堂本Dōmoto×73
- 生協co-op×64
- 補償compensation×47
- 支店長branch manager×45
- 八馬Hachiuma×45