The Shousha

Drama·ザ・商社·The Trading Company
The Shousha
1980/12/05
Speech time
3h 4min
Word count21,777
Unique words
4,145
Unique kanji
1,216
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, 3.3 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 count6,159
Unique words
1,819
Unique kanji
766
Speech speed
334
Difficulty Hard

Episode 2

Speech time
45min
Word count5,574
Unique words
1,661
Unique kanji
717
Speech speed
335
Difficulty Hard

Episode 3

Speech time
36min
Word count4,265
Unique words
1,358
Unique kanji
645
Speech speed
322
Difficulty Hard

Episode 4

Speech time
53min
Word count5,779
Unique words
1,703
Unique kanji
775
Speech speed
313
Difficulty Hard

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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.

See the full vocabulary list (4,145 words)