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This is an Asadora (the morning drama series produced and broadcast by NHK) broadcast from April to September 2014. It is written by Miho Nakazono, a scriptwriter who writes "Segodon" and describes the life of Hanako Muraoka who translated "Anne of Green Gables" into Japanese for the first time in Japan. She was born in Yamanashi and was educated at Toyo Eiwa Jogakkō, a private school for girls established by a missionary of the Methodist Church in Canada.
Yuriko Yoshitaka as Hanako Muraoka (From NHK ONLINE)
In this series, the main character is Hana Andō (later Hanako Muraoka) who is born as the eldest daughter of a farmer. Though her family is so poor, she is interested in "Thumbelina" her father bought for her and enters a primary school. Then she goes to Tokyo and enters Shūwa Jogakkō modeled on Tōyō Eiwa Jogakkō as scholar. She learns English there and made some friends includes Renko Hayama who is modeled after Byakuren Yanagihara, a poet who is a cousin of Emperor Taishō. She takes an interest in translation when she works at a part-time at a publisher called Kōgakukan. After graduating, she goes back to Yamanashi and teaches children but returns to Tokyo and works at Kōgakukan as editor. Later she was given the original work of "Anne of Green Gables" by her former teacher. and decides to translate it. Both the main characters of the series and "Segodon" are born in a family that are not wealthy and experience difficulties in their young days but realised their wishes.
