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The Characters of "Rikuoh" 6

Atlantis Japan

Kenji Obara (Pierre Taki)

The sales manager of Atlantis Japan, Japanese branch of a fictional sport company of the US. He places too much importance on profit and such way of thinking on his part causes the friction between him and Takahiko Murano.

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Junji Sayama (Kazutoyo Koyabu)

A man who works under Obara at Atlantis and behaves as his minion. He often visits the clubhouse of Daiwa Foods Running Team.

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Takahiko Murano (ICHIKAWA Udanji)

A shoe fitter who works at Atlantis Japan who is respected by many runners and has pride in his business. Because of being in disagreement with Obara, he resigns from his post and joins Kōichi's project of Rikuoh.

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The images are from the official website of "Rikuoh".

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The Characters of "Rikuoh" 5

Daiwa Foods Running Team

Hiroto Mogi (Ryōma Takeuchi)

A rising young runner who competed with Naoyuki Kezuka at Hakone Ekiden. After getting injured during the race in Toyohashi, he changes his running style. And then Kōichi Miyazawa offers to sponsor him because Atlantis stops sponsoring him owing to the injury.

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Akihiro Kido (Takuma Oto-o)

A hot-blooded man who coaches the runners and tries to protect them from the pressure of Atlantis.

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Takao Hirase (Masato Wada*)

An experienced runner who is relied on by young teammates but decides to retire because he feels that he reaches the limit of his strength. Later he becomes a coach.

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Other Runners

Hayato Tachihara (Kentarō Uno)

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Naoyuki Kase (Kō Maehara)

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Hisao Naitō (Masato Hanazawa)

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Kawai (Toshihiko Satō)

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Mizuki (Takanari Ishii)

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Hashii (Yūga Andō)

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Asia Industries Running Team

Naoyuki Kezuka (Gaku Sano)

Like Mogi, he is an uprising young runner also and has a strong sense of rivalry with Mogi. He is constantly sponsored by Atlantis. 

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Yoshida (Ryōsuke Yamamoto)

A runner of the team

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(*) Wada was a runner when he was a student of Nihon University and took part in Hakone Ekiden.

The images are from the official website of "Rikuoh".

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The Characters of "Rikuoh" 4

Saitama Chuo Bank Gyōda Branch

Tarō Sakamoto (Shunsuke Kazama)

A staff of the section that finances companies. He thinks that the relationship between people is important and advises Kōichi to develop a new project. However, he is transferred to Maebashi Branch later.
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Hiroshi Ōhashi (Tōru Baba)

A staff of the branch who belongs to the same section with Sakamoto and takes his place after his transfer. Unlike Sakamoto, he is skeptical about the project of Rikuoh and scolds him severely for supporting the project.

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Tōru Ienaga (KATSURA Jakujaku)

A manager of the branch. He is unwilling to finance medium or small sized companies and has no opinion of Sakamoto who financed Kohaze-ya when he worked under him.

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The images are from the official website of "Rikuoh".

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The Characters of "Rikuoh" 2

Employees of Kohaze-ya

Toshimitsu Yasuda (Haruka Uchimura) 

A mid-career employee of Kohaze-ya who is keen on making Rikuoh. He is caring also and sometimes mediates between Kōichi and other employees. 

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Genzō Tomishima (Kōtarō Shiga)

A managing director who is charge of accounting. He doesn't welcome Kōichi's project because the third president of Kohaze-ya (Kōichi's father) tried to do a same thing but in vain. 

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Sewing Staff

Misaki Nakashita (Ayako Yoshitani)

The youngest member of the sewers. She learns how to not only how to sew tabi but how a member of society should do at Kohaze-ya. 

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Yoneko Mizuhara (HARU Yasuko)

An experienced sewer who assists Akemi Masaoka who leads the sewers. She also takes care of her fellow workers.

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Fukuko Nishii (SHŌJI Terue)

The eldest member of the sewers and knows the previous president well. Needless to say, she has known Kōichi since his childhood. She has a chronic heart disease.

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Yoshiko Hashii (Yoriko Kamimura)

An inspiring person and speaks in a loud voice. She sometimes insists on an opinion to Kōichi. 

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Akemi Masaoka (Sawako Agawa)

A high-spirited leading sewer who has great skill and is responsible also. Even Tomishima admits her superiority. She usually joins the meeting and drinking parties at Soramame, Kōichi's favourite izakaya (Japanese style bar). 

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The Characters of "Rikuoh" 1

Miyazawa Family

Kōichi Miyazawa (Kōji Yakusho)

A president of Kohaze-ya. As his company’s poor performance cause by a depressed need of tabi, he decides to make running shoes instead. The idea is opposed by the employees especially Genzō Tomishima, managing director who knows the failure of Kōichi's father who also tried to make running shoes. However, he completes prototype product and support Hiroto Mogi, a member of Daiwa Food running team with it but comes up against Atlantis, a major sport company.

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Mieko Miyazawa (Fumi Dan)

Kōichi's wofe and a mother of Daichi and Akane. She supports her husband at home and grasps how the family members feel.

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Daichi Miyazawa (Kento Yamazaki)

A son of Kōichi and Mieko. At first, he has no will of succeeding Kohaze-ya and is busy with job hunting but becomes to change himself little by little after helping Haruyuki Iiyama with making "shiruku rei" and makes Rikuoh with energy.

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Akane Miyazawa (Mone Kamishiraishi)

A daughter of Kōichi and Mieko. She likes her father Kōichi so much and worries about her elder brother Daichi secretly besides studying for entrance examination of university.

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The images are from the official website of "Rikuoh".

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Kōichi's new project is opposed by Genzō Tomishima, a managing director and is in charge of accounting. He knows that the third president of Kohaze-ya, father of Kōichi once made a pair of running shoes called "Rikuoh" that means the one who dominates the lands but failed. Even so, Kōichi acts positively and decides to use Haruyuki Iiyama's "shiruku rei" as sole of new Rikuoh. Though Tomoshima shows disapproval of Iiyama who made his company go into bankruptcy, Kōichi approaches Iiyama and then he asks Kōichi to make him one of the members of the project in return for using "shiruku rei". Then Daichi assists him though he is currently job hunting. He has no will of succeeding his father in the family business.

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Daichi (Kento Yamazaki, right) assists Haruyuki Iiyama (Akira Terao) besides job hunting

However, Tarō Sakamoto is transferred to Maebashi Branch of Saitoma Chuō Bank. It is him who told Kōichi about "shiruku rei" juse before he left Gyōda. His successor Hiroshi Ōhashi is severe on the project of Rikuoh. 
Kōichi and Daichi plan to ask Hiroto Mogi, member of Daiwa Food's running team to support his activity by supplying Rikuoh. Because of the injury, he is not supported by Atlantis, a major sport company. Then Kōichi visits the ground of Daiwa Foods and hands him the shoes they developed but they are insufficient to support his run.   

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Kōichi (Kōji Yakusho) who wears hanten (*) of Kohaze-ya meets Hiroto Mogi (Ryōma Takeuchi, left)

(*) A short coat worn by merchants or workmen

The images are from the official website of "Rikuoh".


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I mention the TV series in the entry below. 

The series is based on a novel by Jun Ikeido that describes a fictional tabi (Japanese socks) company called "Kohaze(*)-ya" in Gyōda, Saitama and a company-owned running team. Kōichi Miyazawa, the fourth president of Kohaze-ya is adviced to develop new business by Tarō Sakamoto because of the downsturn of making tabi. Sakamoto works at a financing section of Saitama Chuō Bank, main financing bank of Kohaze-ya and a man whom Kōichi can consult with when he is in trouble. Then he tries to make running shoes that is so light using the method of sawing tabi. But it's hard for him to develop his new business.

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Kōichi Miyazawa (Kōji Yakusho, far right) and his staff plan to make running shoes 

One day he goes to Toyohashi, Aichi with his son Daichi to see a marathon race and some famous young runners as Hitoro Mogi and Naoyuki kezuka enter it. During the race, Mogi damages his tendon and is forced to withdraw from it. On the other hand, Kōichi is at a loss how he should find a good material for his shoes. Then Tōru Arimura, owner of sports equipment shop recommends him "Shiruku-rei", the material invented by Haruyuki Iiyama using cocoon. It obtains a patent but is storing away now because Iiyama spent a large sum of money to make it and his company went bankrupt as a result.

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Kōichi decides to meet Haruyuki Iiyama (Akira Terao, left) to ask him to cooperate on his project

(*) Kohaze is a kind of clasp that is used to wear tabi.

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Rugby in Japan 24

Many players from abroad will play in the Japan Rugby Top League next season also. Former All Black Beauden Barrett signed with Suntory Sungoliath. In addition, former Springbok Macazole Mapinpi signed with NTT DOCOMO Red Hurricanes and former Scottish international Graig Laidlaw will end his career as player in NTT Communications Shining Arks. And Kōtarō Matsushima departed for France to join ASM Clermont Auvergne to prepare for the start of the PRO 14 in August.

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The Crusaders beat the Blues in Super Rugby Aotearoa on the 11th of July
(From the official website of Super Rugby)

Super Rugby ends its 25-year history. The NZ Union plans to reconstruct the tournament with the ARU and the unions of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. Though it's not certain whether the Sun Wolves will play in it or not, it is said that some high-ranking teams of the Top League will join it and Yūichirō Fujii, a director of strengthening Japanese national team is eager to realise it. As a result, not only Japan but both South Africa and Argentina say farewell to Super Rugby also.

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The Sengoku period 3

Especially in Taiga Drama series, so-called "San Eiketsu" (The Three Heroes), ODA Nobunaga , TOYOTOMI Hideyoshi and TOKUGAWA Ieyasu often appear in the ones set in the Sengoku period. However, none of them appear in a series called "Mōri Motonari" broadcast in 1997. The daimyo is known as a ruler of Chūgoku region who conquered neighbouring provinces by planning a stratagem but had no connection with San Eiketsu. It is a rare case but exciting.

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NAKAMURA Hashinosuke (NAKAMURA ShikanVIII) as Mōri Motonari
(From the quidebook of the series)

In the series, NAKAMURA Hashinosuke (present NAKAMURA Shikan) plays the role of Motonari and needless to say, the lesson of the Three arrows is described. In the series, Motonari, who is born as second son of Mōri Hiromoto who rules a manor of Aki, western part of present Hiroshima. Motonari loses his parents in his childhood and is brought up by his father's second wife. As his elder brother Okimoto dies young, he takes over as the head of the family and strengthens his clan though he loses his heir Takamoto. He dies in the final episode. As for the Mōri clan, his grandson Terumoto (son of Takamoto) became the lord of the region but the territory was reduced because of the defeat at the Battle of Sekigahara. The Mōri clan made a comeback at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Hanzawa Naoki

A new series of "Hanzawa Naoki" (Hanzawa is a family name in this case) will start on the 19th of July - the broadcast is delayed because of an epidemic of COVID-19. 

In the first series broadcast in 2013, Hanzawa, main character of the series works at a branch in Osaka of Tokyo Chuo Bank and tries to collect debts. However, it becomes clear that his boss Tadasu Asano plots to lay the responsibility of the uncollectible loan on him and Shunichi Kurosaki from the Financial Servicdes Agency also intends to trap him. 

After that he returns to Tokyo and tries to rebuild a hotel that gets into finance trouble but finds Akira Ōwada, executive director of the bank and Natsuko Hanē, managing director of the hotel conspire together to bankrupt the hotel intentionally. Ōwada is a man who didn't finance Hanzawa's father Shinnosuke who managed a small company and made him kill himself. Hanzawa orders Ōwada to prostrate himself in front of executive officers of the bank but he is finally transferred to a subsidiary company of the bank. Then the second series is going to start at last.

The words "Yararetara Yarikaesu" (An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth) in the first series was one of the vogue words in 2013.

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Masato Sakai as Hanzawa Naoki (From the official website of TBS)

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