Morimura Tomomi is a housewife scorned by her husband and two sons, and yet she continues to protect the family. On her 46th birthday, she leaves home in disgust and embarks on a 1,200 km journey. It is Tomomi’s first time driving onto the highway and she speeds along to the west. On the road, she encounters a series of traumatising episodes. She detects her husband’s affair, is faced with a truck driver who mistakes her for a prostitute housewife, and finally her car gets stolen. While Tomomi is at a loss, a good-looking young man and an elderly person give her a ride, and she arrives in Nagasaki. As she meets various people in this town which was once transformed into a wasteland because of the atomic bomb, she becomes aware of a “wilderness” within her and starts to explore the path to rebirth
Japanese study overview
Dakara Kouya is a Japanese drama of 50,519 characters, with 3,389 unique words and 1,098 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.1 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,389 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×218
- 事thing×188
- 先生teacher×119
- 優太Yūta×116
- 言うto say×104
- 思うto think×94
- 人person×78
- 俺I×71
- 長崎Nagasaki (city, prefecture)×71
- お前you×63
- 亀田Kameta×59
- 君Mr×58
- 朋美Akemi×51
- 大野large field×48
- 山岡Yamaoka×39
- 森村Morimura×28
- 原爆atomic bomb×21
- 健太Kenta×19
- 語り部(professional) storyteller×17
- 宮内inside the Imperial Palace×15