The Shousha

Drama·ザ・商社·The Trading Company
The Shousha
1980/12/05
Speech time
3h 4min
Word count21,793
Unique words
4,145
Unique kanji
1,216
Avg. sentence16.7
Speech speed
326
Difficulty Hard
Episodes4
Rating
100 %

An economic drama depicting the struggle and collapse of a Japanese general trading company. The US branch president of a trading company challenges Japan's internal power struggle and the North American oil market.

Genres
Drama
SourcesTMDB

Japanese study overview

The Shousha is a Japanese drama of 51,158 characters, with 4,145 unique words and 1,216 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 4,145 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.

Episode 1

Speech time
49min
Word count6,156
Unique words
1,814
Unique kanji
766
Avg. sentence16.5
Speech speed
334
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
45min
Word count5,573
Unique words
1,663
Unique kanji
717
Avg. sentence15.8
Speech speed
335
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
36min
Word count4,274
Unique words
1,360
Unique kanji
645
Avg. sentence17.8
Speech speed
322
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
53min
Word count5,790
Unique words
1,700
Unique kanji
775
Avg. sentence17.1
Speech speed
313
Difficulty Hard

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Vocabulary highlights

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