Original subtitles

Chiyo... Play nicely.

I'm home. I've had a change of heart...

After drinking all that sake, you're so drunk that

no one will believe you.

Dad

What is it?

Why? Why don't you work?

I wonder why...

Asa ga Kita

Week 15 "Osaka's Great Benefactor" Episode 89

Original Story: Chieko FURUKAWA

Screenwriter: Mika OMORI

Music by: Yuuki HAYASHI

Theme Song: "365 Nichi no Kamihikouki" Sung by: AKB48

Narrator: Keiko SUGIURA

Asa Shirooka: HARU

Shinjiro Shirooka: Hiroshi TAMAKI

Tomoatsu Godai: Dean FUJIOKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

After returning to Osaka, Godai called all the

members of the Chamber of Commerce together.

Everyone's attitude has changed so completely.

They feel as if they've been betrayed by someone

they trusted, so they're probably disappointed.

At first, I felt the same way.

We've trusted him since Dad's time, and helped him...

But...

Here he is!

What's going on?

Calm down, everyone...

I'm going to explain...! So calm down!

Let me talk.

Let's just go inside...

I'm sorry to have caused you all to worry, and

for the trouble I've caused.

That's right! What are you going to do about it?

What are you going to do about it?

Quiet down...

Is it true what they say about you getting the government

assets in a disposal sale at a really low price

to line your own pockets?

Answer him, Mr. Godai!

Answer him...

Answer him!

We won't know if you don't say anything.

Say something!

Answer the question.

I won't make excuses.

I take full responsibility.

I've hurt Osaka's and Osaka merchants' reputation.

As of today, I'll resign as the president of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce.

Are you going to run away?

Once you found out you can't make any money,

are you going to abandon all of us Osaka merchants?

I don't intend to run away.

I'll take full responsibility for the company...

We're asking you to explain what's going on.

How did something that was 14 million yen

come down to 390,000 yen?

You bought it for a mere 1/30th of the price...

What did you do with all the profit you made?

You Satsuma people used Osaka to line your own

pockets with the profits How malicious can you be?

That's right. .. You money monger!

Pretending to be a good man. You're nothing but a miser.

Wait a minute!

Why should we wait?

After all, we've been betrayed by the man we trusted.

He betrayed us.

That's right.

We don't know yet if he's betrayed us or not.

And besides, reducing 14 million down to 390,000 is 1/36th!

Listen all of you... Why?

Why is it that you can only discuss things this way...?

After all that Mr. Godai's done for us Osaka merchants,

don't you know that he's not that kind of person?

When the price of rice was brought back to life again

thanks to Mr. Godai, you were all in such a festive mood that

you surrounded Mr. Godai's residence with paper lanterns.

Just because people started putting Osaka down a little,

how could you all change your attitude so quickly?

How ridiculous! When did the Osaka merchants turn into such cowards?

Asa...

Asa!

And you, Mr. Godai...!

What's wrong with you?

Saying you won't make any excuses.

Putting on airs like that.

This is no time to be putting on airs!

Make excuses! Explain it all to us properly.

At this rate, we have no idea what's going on,

so all we can do is to blame you for it all.

That's right! She's right!

We want to believe in you!

That's right.

Everyone...

But this is...

That's right.

To explain all of this to you would be hard to understand... In fact,

it's not very interesting and a lot of trouble.

My husband?

Everyone... I'm really sorry my wife raised her voice

like that to all of you.

Forgive her.

In apology, it's no use for me to hold on to all of

this so let me just pass it around.

What is that?

It's information put together on what the government

has been doing in the past 10 years in Hokkaido.

How did you get this?

For that man over there...

Something like this is a piece of cake.

Misaka!

How could pass out these important internal memos?

I don't really understand all of this myself, but

I'm sure all of you excellent merchants here should

understand it just by looking at it.

What is this?

This is...!

You're right!

It seems the government put a lot of money into

Hokkaido for the past 10 years, but things

didn't work out for them.

At this rate, all the money they put into it up until

now would be for nothing.

So the government asked Mr. Godai with his good business sense

to take on the reclamation project.

But when you think about it, even if you lose money on it,

Hokkaido is a place that needs to be developed.

With that in mind, Mr. Godai took it on for 390,000 yen.

Isn't that as much as Osaka would pay for a business

that they had no idea whether would be profitable or not?

Is that right?

If that's right then were you going to saddle us with

a burden like that?

That's right. I only agreed to it because I thought we'd make

money off of it.

We almost got taken in.

That's right.

No! Isn't it...

...isn't it because Mr. Godai had faith in the Osaka merchants?

Just as Asa said, the tenacity toward business that we

merchants have is different from the government's.

Besides we're Osaka merchants who are the best in all of

Japan in doing business.

Mr. Godai thought that we could do it, and we'd

show everyone the power of Osaka.

I'm sure that's how Mr. Godai felt.

Shouldn't the Osaka merchants answer to that trust?

Are we all that heartless?

You're right.

I'm so ashamed of my disgraceful behavior.

Aren't you?

You're right.

But, Mr. Godai... How could you be so cold?

That's right. If that's what it was all about, you should

have told us that.

That's right. You should have.

I'm sorry! We're not that heartless.

That's right.

He's absolutely right.

Everyone...

Come on, Tomo-chan.

Tomo-chan?

Are you still going to resign as the president?

Shinjiro!

Everyone...

All of you... Thank you so much.

Thank you!

But even if we gave this out to everyone in Japan,

no one will trust me again.

No!

Don't let this get you down.

If you decide to do it, then see it through.

You mustn't lose...

Not to others, but yourself.

That's what you said to me.

Please... don't let this get you down.

Asa.

Let's all close this with a hand clap for our president, Mr. Godai...

All right. Let's do it.

Show me your hands...

Let's close it with a clap.

Once more.

Both hands three times.

Mr. Godai. ..We're counting on you from now on.

We're counting on you.

Everyone...

Thank you, everyone.

This is the best town in all of Japan, after all.

I've made up my mind...

I'm going to devote the rest of my life for the sake of the prosperity of this town.

So Godai continued as the president of the Osaka

Chamber of Commerce and working together with

the merchants of Osaka, he established many businesses.

When did you check into all that information?

I just did what Eizaburo asked me to do.

I have to give you credit for what you said...

I was just copying Asa's meddling, that's all.

Meddling?

If society hadn't started making such a fuss over this, no one

would have lost anything, it would have been such a benefit for

Hokkaido, Osaka, the government and everyone in Japan.

That's true.

I talked too much, so I'm thirsty. I'm going to get a drink of beer.

Drinking beer this early in the day...?

You must be hungry.

Dinner will be ready soon.

You have to eat things even if you don't like it

or you won't grow.

Chiyo.

I haven't really given you a proper answer to the

question you asked me a while back, did I?

You asked me why I was different from other moms.

I...

...love doing business.

We all work together, and if there's an obstacle, we'll

overcome it, and think about it really carefully, so we can

move in the right direction.

It's something I just love to do, and can't stop.

You may not be able to understand all that yet.

Yes. I understand.

Do your best in your work.

Those words from Chiyo who had a good grasp of what

was going on around her echoed deep inside Asa's heart.