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Let's get right into talking about banks.

GOD OF BANKS EIICHI SHIBUSAWA

I have questions for both of you.

The first question is...

What do you think someone who runs a bank wants the

most and is the most important thing?

What we want the most?

And what's most important?

Isn't it money?

No, it's not.

The truth is, you don't need money.

Why?

You don't need money? That can't be...!

Asa ga Kita

Week 17 "My Final Duty" Episode 101

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

Gansuke: Takaya YAMAUCHI

Ume: TOMOCHIKA

Eizaburo Shirooka: Akito KIRIYAMA

Chiyo Shirooka: Rio SUZUKI

Heijuro Yamazaki: Shigeo TSUJIMOTO

Eiichi Shibusawa: Yuji MIYAKE

Shokichi Shirooka: Masomi KONDO

The second question is...

What setup does a bank have that a money changer doesn't?

I know that one.

It's a setup called savings where a bank holds on to it's customers' money.

That's right. That's the correct answer.

What's most important to a money changer

is trust... Because we handle something as

precious as money.

A money changer changes trust into money.

I know what it is now...

What's more important than money?

You do? What's your answer?

Trust, isn't it?

That's correct.

To a bank, what you need the most is

whether you can put your trust in the

bank and if you can become a bank that people trust.

You'll be holding on to people's money, so

they can't have any doubts about you.

It's being trusted.

What's important is to be trusted, so that

people will feel that it's much safer to leave

their money in the banks than keep it themselves.

If you have trust, people will naturally bring money to you.

You're absolutely right.

In order to run a bank, we have to build up

trust in us.

We'll run our business honestly, so we'll be

a business of high caliber.

That's right.

Money is a mysterious thing so it moves according

the caliber of the people.

This is the last question.

Mr. Godai and I have thought of the national interest from a

broad point of view, but what do you think is the most important thing

that we have to do?

What you the god of banks and Mr. Godai, the king

of mining wanted to do the most?

I have no idea.

The answer is to create people.

In other words, education.

Education?

Not just our own children, but to create a resource of reliable

people who will work for the sake of Japan.

I see! You're absolutely right.

If you're able to learn, you'll have the right knowledge

and be able to work for the sake of Japan and the

people who are important to you.

There's nothing more important than that.

That's right.

Business and education.

They both are things that make us worry, and an important problem.

What a surprise!

For the first time, I'm beginning to think of money and

business as something with a human touch.

But asking young people like us whether we

want to live on our own at this point in our lives.

What's young about you?

But living alone... It would be so lonely.

But if you live on your own, you don't have to worry

about the head clerk or the maidservants keeping

an eye on you...

You can do whatever you want with your own pay.

That's not all... For example...

You can live with the woman you love...

You'll be free to do whatever you want.

Be free to do anything?

With the woman I love?

With that, almost all the workers decided to live

on their own, and come to work.

So the female workers will continue to live here, and

work here as maidservants.

The grand mistress will look for marriage prospects

for the young workers.

Which means nothing will change, will it?

I'm so glad.

Will you...

...leave this house with me?

if Gansuke asked you to leave with him,

if that's what you want to do then...

I want you to do it.

Gansuke... Please!

Don't go anywhere.

Shinjiro told me that I'm not to say that to you.

But... Where are you planning to go?

I don't think you would, but...

Is it one of our competitors?

I'm thinking of going to Iyo.

Iyo?

Iyo is called Ehime now...

My wife who left me to go back home,

wrote me a letter for the first time in 20 years.

It seems my daughter is seriously ill.

Your daughter? Is that right?

She needs money, and asked for my help.

I thought she was the one who left me, so

how can she turn to me now, but...

I couldn't do anything for my daughter 20 years ago.

That's why I think it must be fate that she would

write to me at a time like this.

I'll go to Iyo, and look tor a job there, and

look after my daughter.

If you tell me something like that, how can I stop you?

That's right. Don't cry.

Eizaburo... From now on, you have to protect

Kano-ya's name together with Shinjiro and the mistress.

All right. Like Dad promised, well give you as much

money as we can.

Thank you.

I'm so glad.

Ume...

Head Clerk... I'm sorry.

I was cleaning, and happened to hear

what you were telling them.

You must be worried about your daughter.

But if you're by their side, it'll be so heartening for your wife.

Ume... I'm sorry.

Why? This is the way it should be.

I want to thank you.

Thank me?

Even though you may have been kidding,

you asked me if I would come with you...

If I have that memory, I can live alone for

the rest of my life.

Thank you for everything up until now...

Please take care.

I couldn't serve this family until the end.

So please do your best and always be by

Asa's side till the end.

Leave it to me.

Ume!

Oasa! I'm sorry.

I was in the middle of cleaning, and

I'm just sitting here in a daze.

Ume!

It's been a while but shall we have a match?

What kind of match?

This...

...of course!

Give me a break! How old do you think I am?

You're not young either.

By any chance are you too old to win against me?

What are you saying?

No matter how old I am, I'll never lose to you.

If I lost, how can I stay here as your attendant?

I'm glad to hear that.

So please... Wrestle with me.

It's been bothering me all this time that I lost

to you way back then.

All right. It can't be helped.

That hurts!

I'm sorry, Oasa!

It's no good. I lost... That's not good.

I was going to make you cry.

Oasa!

KANO BANK

Finally, in 1888... Kano ya...

Oh, no! What are you doing, Mom?