Season 1 (E:5)
1985
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Kokugo Gannen
Number of Season: 1 | Number of Episodes: 5
Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken language, this humorous drama focuses on how the national language used today was created.
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