Season 1 (E:151)
1993
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Karin
Number of Season: 1 | Number of Episodes: 151
A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only daughter of old traditional family. For generations, they were making soybean paste for living. Now she needs to take over this business and rebuild it. She lives through the hardships of postwar Japan.
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