40-year-old Usui Arata had worked as a salesperson for her dream company but right before her marriage, she is betrayed by her fiancée. Not only is her engagement broken off, she is demoted to work at the logistics warehouse in the name of restructuring. Arata’s future is bleak. She has no dream, savings or boyfriend and wonders whether her life will end just like this? This day is her 40th birthday but no one celebrates it with her. The only thing she receives are e-mails from online shopping sites. On her way to the workplace from the company dormitory on a typical dull morning, Arata notices an elderly woman crouching by the side of the road. There is no one in this corner of the city to help her. It feels as if she is seeing herself 40 years later and she instinctively extends a hand to the woman.
Japanese study overview
Sono Onna, Jiruba is a Japanese drama of 58,169 characters, with 3,677 unique words and 1,127 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,677 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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×251
- 言うto say×124
- 思うto think×96
- 今now×56
- 帰るto return×54
- 店store×53
- 男man×51
- 今日today×49
- 何でwhy?×46
- 新new×41
- 俺I×41
- 年year×40
- 前園Maesono×23
- 石動Ishidou×23
- 村木Muraki×21
- 笛吹Usui×20
- 笛吹flute player×13
- 古里hometown×12
- 福島Fukushima (city, prefecture)×12
- ぎっくり腰strained back×10