"Serial TV Story"
From now on, you can become any sort of woman you want to be, Yoko.
What will it be?
Reading and writing are very important.
But, the most important thing is what you think about it.
Her dream was to become a school teacher.
But my husband wouldn't allow it.
Mom, you wanted to become a teacher, too, didn't you?
Ladies, enjoy your lives!
I'm... going to be a teacher!
Heiwa Fansubs Presents "Ohisama" "The Sun"
Week 7: "The Sun's Classroom" (Episode 37)
Screenplay by: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Watanabe Toshiyuki Performance: Face Music
Sudo Yoko: Inoue Mao
Takahashi Natsuko: Itou Ayumi
Nakamura-sensei: Pierre Taki
Fukuda-sensei: Dankan
Principal Umeda: Ayada Toshiki
- Anan Kenji - Matsukawa Naruki
Yamaya Kasumi
Haraguchi Fusako: Saito Yuki
Sudo Yoko (Narrator): Wakao Ayako
Producer: Komatsu Masayo
Director: Kasaura Tomoyoshi
Ow, ow.
Here, Madokay, it's done! Please eat it.
Madoka, Madoka!
"Fusako-chan!"
Oh my, I need to go to Azumino.
Hey.
Ah, um, I just got this e-mail from Yoko-san.
I don't know what that's about, but stop it.
Why are you telling me stop when you don't even know what it is?
Anyhow, it won't last long.
There was yoga, tango and tanka, too. (Japanese poetry)
But this isn't like that!
Every time you tell me that "this time" will be different.
What was that!?
Yoko-saaan!
Yoko-san!
Fusako-chan, did you receive my e-mail?
Yoko-chan's e-mails are more like telegrams, aren't they?
Ala. Really?
Look! "When will you come? Yoko."
What's more, it's all in katakana.
It's not easy getting accustomed to something like e-mail.
It certainly does looks like a telegram from old, doesn't it?
Still, I was happy.
Um, look...
Please teach me how you get all those pretty faces to line up like that.
Ah, yes. Happy to. To do that...
Ah, not right now.
Back to my story.
Yes, yes.
Ah, there's one serious question I'd like to ask you first though, Yoko-san.
Go ahead.
Hearing your story and wanting to know more about that era...
...I got out my daughter's textbook on Japanese history and started reading it.
That textbook seemed pretty miserable...
...and it's what you might call a very cursory sort of textbook...
...but we'll set that aside.
Eh...
You enrolled in Teacher's School in 1939, right, Yoko-san?
You then became a teacher in 1941.
Then, in December of 1941, World War II started.
And then after that...
...it was written that the Common elementary schools were then changed to National schools.
But what was the difference?
- Fusako-chan. - Yes?
- You were a good student, weren't you? - Eh?
You properly prepared for a review. Well, that's great of you.
Kyaa!
That's right, in 1939 when I was 16...
...it was an era where the world was already gathering clouds, wasn't it?
The economy kept getting worse.
During that time, when schools switched from being Common schools to being National schools...
...the schoolchildren started to be called the "Rising Generation."
Well, putting it in simple terms...
Those National schools were really places where...
...the country's children were to be trained to fight for their country in the future.
"Showa 16, April" (1941)
'Morning!
"Even so, my chest was swelled with the hopes and anxieties..."
"...at being able to realize my dream by starting as a teacher."
Yoko-san!
Natsuko-sensei!
I've been waiting for you.
"Takahashi Natsuko"
I'm rather happy. My pupil has become a colleague.
I did my best so I could become a teacher just like Natsuko-sensei.
Really?
Yes.
I'll be counting on you from today.
You haven't changed.
Still Yoko-chan of the Sun.
Charge the enemy's tank! Crash it!
Whaa!
Still, this is a difficult time to be a teacher.
What will happen to this school?
Eh?
We absolutely mustn't talk about that.
Just when it's the two of us.
Yes.
And because they tend to be haughty towards women teachers fresh out of Teacher's School...
...well anyway, be civil and keep a pleasant smile on your face.
Well anyway, you can depend upon me smiling.
I even greet dogs with a pleasant smile.
Eh...
"In those days, at all schools throughout Japan..."
"...there were constructed what were called 'Enshrinement Temples.'"
"Both teachers and students were required to bow deeply before it whenever passing."
"If you were in a hurry and forgot about it, that was a very serious thing."
Good morning!
'Morning!
Have you been a teacher at this school ever since then?
No. I was once posted to a school in Omachi last year.
Is that right.
I'm happy, too. I have someone to talk with.
Nice to meet you.
During this current year, our name will be changed to that of a National school...
...and this school will now be a place where we raise people to be of use in this holy war.
Well, you're sure to be a little lost at sea...
"Principal Umeda"
...but please try not to cause any problems.
Ah... I'll do my best.
Takahashi-sensei, we'll be counting on you to be her guidance coach here, please.
Yes.
Thank you very much.
Everyone, nice to meet you all.
Nice to meet you.
Here you are.
That's right.
Sudo-sensei, you were once Takahashi-sensei's pupil.
Yes.
"Nakamura Masashi"
Takahashi-sensei has been a teacher for a long time.
Yes, thanks to you.
You're great.
Devoting your life to education without getting married.
"Fukada Yoshihiko"
She's totally different from us substitute teachers, isn't she?
Truly.
Still, I don't know what you may have learned at Teacher's School, Sudo-san.
But it seems it'll have been a waste.
Eh?
What should be foremost in teaching the Rising Generation of children...
...is how they can be of use on the battlefield.
That's what all the citizens of the country should be united behind.
Don't you think so, Sudo-sensei?
Ah, yes.
I, too, I feel it's an increasingly heavy responsibility for a teacher...
...to express those feelings of loving one's country...
...and that this country's people won't be defeated.
Ohh...
I think my job is to show the students...
...the joys of life and learning and to give them those things that bring out their smiles.
Isn't that... a dangerous thought?
Eh?
That joys of life part.
Our job is to make these.
A smile isn't necessary for this, now is it?
"Soldier"
But, even one soldier can do this.
Checkmate!
Eh? Ah, I've lost.
Sudo-sensei.
Yes?
It's about time to go to class, isn't it?
Yes. I understand.
Good morning.
- 'Morning. - 'Morning.
Ow!
Don't have such an expression.
Did you come here just so you could have fun in the staff room?
No.
Charge!
Look.
Even if the school is different, even if the world has changed...
...children are still children.
That's what I think.
Try to remember.
Back to when you were a schoolchild.
They're waiting now.
Your students in that classroom are yours.
What sort of teacher will you be?
I'm excited to find out.
Get going...
...to your students in the classroom.
Yes!
I'm going.
Ah, say. Not that way, this way!
White Class, 4th Year.
Ah, I'm sorry.
"White Class, 4th Year"
I'm... sorry.
I'm sorry!
Sensei.
Huh?
I'll give you this to cheer you up.
Thank you.
Kyaa!
Hey! Settle down.
Here. Thank you!
"Ah, those children were my students."
"They were so cute, weren't they?"
"Their eyes shining, I thought that children are still children."
"Yuko"
"Sudo Yoko"
I am Sudo Yoko.
Please call me 'Yoko-sensei.'
And, now!
Yoko-sensei!
Yes!
Let's get along from today!
Yes!
"To Be Continued"
"Ohisama" "North Alps Dried Marsh"