Toko Ikuta lost her parents in a car accident at the age of 3. Afterwards, her uncle, who ran a barbershop in Morioka, raised her and she had a happy childhood. Toko Ikuta was active as a local idol and she dreamed of becoming an actress. At the age of 19, she is set to take an audition in Tokyo. The day before her audition, on March 11, 2011, the great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami hits Japan. In the autumn of 2011, Toko Ikuta works at a cafe. She goes with her Korean co-worker Han Yoo-Ri to do volunteer work in Kesennuma as the area recovers from the devastating tsunami. There, Toko Ikuta meets Kiyotaka Shimizu who is a university student from Tokyo and a member of a student volunteer group. While spending time together in Kesennuma, Toko Ikuta and Kiyotaka Shimizu develop feelings for each other.
Japanese study overview
Soshite, Ikiru is a Japanese drama of 36,819 characters, with 2,156 unique words and 851 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 2,156 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.
- 思うto think×113
- 私I×104
- 瞳子Touko×92
- 言うto say×92
- 俺I×71
- 清隆Kiyotaka×71
- 今now×44
- 自分myself×38
- 会うto meet×37
- よろしくお願いしますplease remember me×31
- 人person×30
- 一緒にtogether (with)×30
- 気仙沼Kisennuma×20
- 真二Shinji×19
- 瞳子pupil (of the eye)×15
- 生田Ikita×13
- 坂本Karumera×12
- 盛岡Morioka (city in Iwate)×9
- 震災earthquake disaster×7
- 床屋barbershop×6