Heitaro, a father, has just retired from the company for which he has worked for 38 years. He proposes that the combined total amount of 30 million yen, made up of his retirement money and the savings his wife had left, should be divided equally by the 6 members of the family — That is, 5 million yen each. Will Heitaro’s sincere gift of 5 million yen be able to make each of his daughters happy?

Yuichiro Sawada is an elite company man with a blue chip trading company, in charge of a major overseas infrastructure building project. Supported by his beautiful wife and talented cook, Yoshino, his son, Daichi, a graduate of Tokyo University now employed at the Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry, and daughter, Mariko, a student at the University of Washington, Sawada's life seems the picture of success with talk of a major promotion to executive status close at hand. But then Yuichiro is diagnosed with cancer, and before he has a chance to tell his family, they have become estranged from him. Forlorn, Yuichiro resolves to use his remaining time on Earth helping his family fulfill their dreams, and it becomes his driving passion and wish as a father and husband. Yuichiro's passionate pursuit soon begins to transform his family, too, realizing how the ability to dream can create new and lasting bonds between people, and in their relationship to society.

Shunpei is a single father struggling to care for his five-year-old son. One day, he runs into childhood buddy Sosuke, who decides to help his old friend out. Sosuke’s plan involves renting out the apartment above his rundown okonomiyaki restaurant as a share house and using the money to rebuild. When Sosuke puts out a call on social media for single parents like Shunpei, his hashtag #bemyfamily attracts the attention of Rei, a straightlaced schoolteacher, and Meiku, an ambitious singer-songwriter, each with a child of her own. But can this motley assortment of two men, two women, and three children really become a “family” just by living under the same roof?

Hitomi Serizawa leads a fulfilling professional and private life. What’s more, she will be getting married in 100 days. Plans are progressing smoothly until the unexpected appearance of her mother after an absence of 25 years. A free-spirited woman who lives impulsively and abandoned Hitomi to her stepfather, the mother, Kanako has suddenly decided to re-enter her daughter’s life in time to bask in the attention and respect given to the mother of a bride. Naturally, Hitomi is incensed and galled by the idea. But Hitomi soon finds out that her mother knows her intimately, for she has been corresponding with her mother all her life, believing her to be a childhood friend who moved away. As a result, Kanako knows all of HItomi’s closest-kept secrets, her innermost thoughts, everything about her upcoming marriage and even… that she was recently diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor that may ruin plans for the wedding. Hitomi makes every effort to resist her mother’s unsolicited intrusion into her life, but blood is thicker than water. And so begins the 100-day battle between a mother and daughter. Can it end well?

18-year-old Arisu dreams of becoming a museum curator overseas.
But just as she earns a recommendation to study art at a university, she finds out she is pregnant. Enter co-protagonist Toko, a business-savvy contemporary art dealer on the cusp of 40 who has shelved the idea of romance for the past decade. A passion for art and their bad luck or indifference to romance help the two women forge a bond despite their age difference. But then they both find themselves falling for “troubled” men in this empowering girl-bonding tale.

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For example, we will teach you how to;
- Cook a gorgeous dinner for your family in 20 minutes!
- Get your three children up and ready for school in 5 minutes!
After you watch this show, we promise you will be able to have two additional hours a day!

37.5 degrees Celsius is the highest temperature permitted for a child to attend daycare. But children do run fevers, and when that happens, what can you do? Parents can’t simply leave their sick children at home while they go off to work. But they also must work. Enter the “sick child” caregiver to lend a helping hand to parents in a fix. Problem solved. But is leaving a sick child in someone else’s care considered “bad parenting”? What truly defines parental affection, family and parenting? Find out through the daily adventures of Momoko, a child caregiver who, though clumsy in work and love, embraces a host of challenges and difficulties with an honest passion. 37.5-degree Tears examines the different forms that love and parenting take, and is sure to tug at the heartstrings of all parents.

99 years ago, a Japanese man emigrated to the vast expanse of America with hopes of survival and dreams of a brighter future. He and those like him were settlers, 1st generation Japanese-Americans. From them were issued a second generation which grew up bearing little knowledge of, nor devotion to, their parents’ homeland. And yet fate was to deliver them all a cruel blow... as war proceeded to tear them apart along national and generational lines. This is a story about Japanese immigrants who endured the horrors and tragedy of war, overcame deep prejudice and attained their dreams in a new land through love and courage.

Hiroto Miyama is an unconventional young lawyer who dances to his own tune and gets a little obsessive. For one thing, he’s only interested in criminal cases, and he will never give up in his pursuit of the truth even if offers only a 0.1% chance of being discovered. Japan’s 99.9% criminal case conviction rate leads the world, attesting to a “highly reliable” judicial system.
In other words, once a crime suspect is indicted, prosecutor arguments tend to be accepted hook, line and sinker. In the face of those 99.9% odds, there’s no money in being a defense lawyer specializing in criminal cases, but for Miyama, that’s where the interest and kernels of truth lie. From unexpected places, the mold-breaking Miyama stakes his reputation on a prayer of a chance as he clashes with hotshot lawyers who’ll go to any lengths to win in this gloriously fun, legal mystery.

Miyama is an unorthodox lawyer who loves to take on criminal cases with a 99.9% chance of verdict certainty, and search for that minuscule nugget of truth that can overturn it. The “99.9 Criminal Lawyer” returns for a second season after taking the television world by storm starting April 2016. Providing more of the high courtroom drama unique to the series, this second season delves into Miyama’s battle with a judge as he seeks to uncover that 0.1% shred of evidence that can win a case. A young woman visits his law office claiming her father has been wrongly accused of murder. She is accompanied by a friend and former judge who insists Miyama litigate for a reduced sentence since a guilty conviction seems a foregone conclusion. But a surprised Miyama and partner, Sada, take on the case instead to pursue the whole truth against the wishes of their client.

Miyama is junior partner to Sada, who has just been named new director of the Madarame Law Office. When a party is held to announce the new director, the president of a major auto maker wants them to hire and train his granddaughter Honoka. A candidate for mayor needs their help clearing him of a bribery charges, which puts them up against a suave bribery lawyer accustomed to operating in “gray” legal territory. Can Miyama and company stay focused on finding truth and justice?

A woman’s teens, 20s and 30s - each decade brings its own level of expectations and anxieties. These watershed life moments tend to highlight issues of employment, love, marriage, childbirth, and parenting, with the added pressure of perceived time limits. Three so-called “9-border” sisters - aged 19, 29, and 39 - gather under one roof after their father's sudden disappearance struggle with love, life, and time issues in this melodrama about finding happiness and moving forward in life.

Discover the enchantment of Kyoto through four seasons.
Take a walk through history, shop and savor delicious treats in this thousand-year capital nobody can visit often enough, and explore the depth of this beautiful city.

Natsume, a medical student, has fallen in love with Aki, a woman who has turned to prostitution to earn money to pay for her brother’s surgery. Will their love be enough to heal their former lives and bind them together forever? This is a heart-rending tale of true love and transformed lives.

Until now, Mako thought that politics had absolutely nothing to do with her. That is until her fiance, Takashi, suddenly became a candidate for lower house elections of the Diet. In support of Takashi’s aim to “bring a fresh breeze to politics,” she enters an unfamiliar world. There she meets the holders of the real power in politics, the adept private secretaries and the power behind the throne - the wives of the parliamentarians. Giddy from the eccentric and driven personalities she meets, the likes of which she has never before encountered, Mako stands with Takashi as they are buffeted by the waves of politics.

Political circumstances force upstart doctor, Kazuaki Okita, to leave a busy hospital life and his girlfriend behind and go to the United States where he takes part in countless operations and develops into a top-notch surgeon. Then, at the behest of his ex-lover’s father, he returns to Japan to find his girlfriend has gone and married his best friend who actually masterminded Okita’s original exile from the hospital ten years ago. Unbeknownst to all of this, Okita is reunited with his ex-lover and best friend and the varying peculiarities of the hospital staff. Though awkward at times, Okita is single-minded in his pursuit of good medicine, endearing him to his patients and forcing his colleagues to rethink the true meaning of medicine and the value of life in a hospital drama swirling with passion, ambition, friendship, jealousy and pride.

A modern retelling of the classic 1887 Francis Burnett story, The Little Princess, about a precocious young girl of wealthy upbringing who one day finds her life turned upside down and all her privileges taken away when the family goes bankrupt. Cast into the role of a penniless servant, Seira fights on, never losing her pride, cheer nor compassion come whatever adverse circumstances. An inspirational and timeless story sure to be the purest and most heroic told this year.

Although Junpei is aiming to become a professional photographer, he has just completed a five-year teaching post at a reform school. His next assignment is deputy homeroom teacher at a prison school. Junpei will be working alongside senior teacher, Miyake. The students of the prison school are all convicted felons. Those who have not yet finished compulsory education but show the will to learn and have a clean slate of behavior in prison are the conditions for admission to the school. However, the screening process is strict, and only those judged worthy by the admissions committee are permitted to take 14 subjects and study for seven hours a day. The students are something of a motley crew and this drama traces not only their rocky path to graduation but also how Junpei grows through coming into contact with them.

After being a star student in high school, Junko Harumi finds herself in her early thirties having failed at love, college entrance exams and good employment. Working at a cram school as a tutor bereft of hope and motivation, she spends her days believing she’ll be fired at any moment. Then one day, a knuckle-headed, delinquent teen named Kyohei Yuri appears before her. “I want you to get me into the University of Tokyo,” he says. Having herself failed to get into the country’s most prestigious university, Junko refuses thinking it beyond her abilities, but then is overpowered by Kyohei’s strong will and desire, and finally relents. In the process, she is surprised when her handsome cousin, Masashi Yakumo, an elite trade company man, returns from working overseas and suddenly proposes marriage to her. With her life suddenly taking a turn for the better, can Junko get Kyohei into the University of Tokyo from a bottom-feeder high school? And is she destined to find the love to set her life on a new path?

This is the story of one woman finding her way back into the social scene after losing the “perfect” man she believed would marry her. Getting over her lack of trust in men won’t be easy, but with a lively circle of friends and a youthful, matchmaking mother, her road to receiving the wedding proposal of her dreams is sure to be an interesting one.

Say you were a single woman at a marriageable age and a young, charming, and wealthy man of high social standing proposed to you. What would you do?
Suzuko Shiraishi, a strong-minded attractive female chef, is known for her foul mouth and masterly cooking skills. With an attitude like hers, she would reject such a proposal without a doubt. Suzuko works at an Italian restaurant and dreams of opening her own restaurant someday. A new manager is hired for the Italian restaurant ? Haruki Katsuragi, a naive and stinking rich young fellow. Suzuko wants the restaurant to be an authentic Italian cuisine with mass appeal but Haruki demands a high-end place designed especially for celebrities. The two don’t click from the start. Will there be a tasty proposal? This drama is an entertaining romantic comedy about an independent woman and a young rich guy.

After 20 years of absence after her parent’s divorce, Miwo’s father shows up on her doorstep asking to live together. Now a high school teacher and all grown up, Miwo is puzzled but can’t refuse her own father. They begin living under the same roof, and it does not take Miwo long to learn her father has grown ill and does not have long to live. Will their short time together be enough to make up for their long time apart?

Soon to be married, Miyuki and Makoto are ready to start a beautiful life together. However, Makoto is asked by his company to take care of a problem overseas right after the wedding. Miyuki’s married friends are envious that she can still work and maintain some independence in her single married life, but Makoto’s parents suddenly become ill and it falls to her to care for his bedridden father. Can Miyuki find a way to cope with her familial obligations in her husband’s absence?

Eri and Shuji meet as next door neighbors and over the course of a year become lovers. However, just as Shuji is planning on asking Eri to marry him, they are each offered job opportunities at opposite ends of the globe. Pulled apart by their careers, they happen to meet years later and are surprised to find they still have feelings for one another. However, the fact that they are both in serious relationships with other people promises to complicate matters.

30-something office lady Chikako falls for Shun, a man at her gym. She asks him out, but he rejects her. Shun then happens to meet Chikako's mother, Hanae, and are instantly attracted to each other. The attraction of a younger man changes Hanae's perception of herself as a woman. Chikako enjoys seeing her mother blossom, oblivious to the fact that this is due to the man who rejected her. When she learns of Hanae and Shun's relationship, she sees her mother for the first time as a rival. They are no longer mother and daughter. They are simply two women in love with the same man.

Without assistant directors (A.D.s), there would be no television programs, yet this demanding job pays little and allows almost no private time. And having a girlfriend is next to impossible. Nevertheless, the dream of one day becoming a director drives the young men of this series to take on more hardship, and risk more at love, than most other people their age.

University engineering student, Keiichi, has never been lucky in love. In fact, he hasn't been lucky with much of anything at all. He good-naturedly accepts being the gofer for his older dorm mates, but wishes something good would go his way. A strange twist of fate puts him in touch with the Goddess Technical Hotline, and Belldandy, a fully licensed Goddess, offers to grant him one wish! Keiichi decides what he really needs is a girlfriend just like her. But Keiichi ends up getting more than he bargained for when Belldandy herself comes to live with him!

Over a thousand years ago in a time of royal courts, Samurai and magic, Kanna is held captive and exploited for her magical powers. When she sacrifices herself to protect her maid, Uraha, and guard, Ryuya, she is cursed by her pursuers, and her spirit is imprisoned in the sky for eternity. In return for Kanna's selfless act, Ryuya and Uraha vow to free her spirit no matter how long it takes. This quest is passed down through the generations, and now lies with Yukito, their present-day descendant. Although he retains the magical knowledge of his ancestors, he has found little use for it beyond earning himself a meager living as a performer as he drifts from place to place. But his outlook changes when he finds himself in a sleepy seaside town, where mysterious, supernatural events are unfolding. It is here that Yukito will begin to learn his ultimate destiny.

Autistic savant, Ataru, has a very unique gift. He is capable of uttering “words” that help the police in their investigations “discover, observe, perceive and deduce” evidence they had hitherto failed to notice. In fact, like a chess genius, Ataru has the ability to think tens of moves ahead of the average person. While it’s obvious to anyone that his favorite foods are tomato ketchup and honey mustard, Ataru struggles with communication, often speaking in conundrums, behaving erratically and even lapsing into hysteric fits. While his uniquely-wired brain enables him to fire off “key words” that are integrally linked to solving crime, the task of piecing his utterances together like a jigsaw puzzle falls to Detective Maiko Ebina and superior officer, Sawa. Together, they create an unlikely and dynamic trio solving one case after another.

Makoto is a 24-year-old company employee who lives her life avoiding attention so as not to be disliked. But her life changes one night when an accident erases her memory! The only clue is a ring in her handbag she clearly meant for a man. When three men appear, one claiming to be her ex-lover, another her only male friend, and the third her soulmate, the mystery begins. Who is the ring for? And who is she? Makoto goes in search of true self and true love in this fun, romantic-comedy mystery.