When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.
When fourteen-year-old Yo is hospitalized she gradually develops feelings for Yayoi who is a nurse tending her. However, Yayoi leaves the nursing profession in favour of prostitution. Yo is disappointed, but turns to the older woman after she is the subject of unrequited love from her mother's man. The two grow closer and Yo is about to find out what motivates Yayoi.
A Taiwanese girl Yuwen comes to a village of Fukushima to study abroad. She thinks falling-in-love is a stupid thing and the land is unusually dry as Yuwen’s heart because of no rains. Yuwen struggles to speak Japanese but learns Japan culture and relationships from her host family and neighbors. As she opens her heart little by little, rain falls on the small village after a long time.
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.
Hatori y Rita han sido amigos de la infancia, y apesar de que Rita sea un casanova, Hatori siempre entiende, por que al parecer ella opina que es la protagonista de esta historia shojo. Pero hay un problema. Rita decide andar con Adachi, una chica de bajo perfil que al parecer tiene demasiadas cualidades para ser protagonista shojo. Hatori se empieza a cuestionar si esta historia es para ella, y decidida ante todo, no se rendira a ser un personaje secundario y asi, quedarse con su amor de toda la vida, Rita. Mientras tanto, el estudiante masculino más popular, Kosuke Hiromitsu se interesa por Hatori.
Sayaka Kudo es una "gyaru" que viste minifaldas y se tiñe el pelo de rubio. Aunque está en el segundo año del instituto, académicamente no anda muy lejos de la primaria. Frecuentemente cambia de escuela debido a su dificultad para hacer amigos e incluso ha sido sancionada por fumar. Con vistas a prepararla para el examen de acceso a la univerdad, su madre decide enviarla a la Seiho Cram School. Cuando su director tiene conocimiento de sus problemas, se toma como algo personal el ayudarle a conseguir su objetivo de ser admitida en la Universidad de Keio, de gran prestigio y considerada como la más complicada de Japón con vistas a ser aceptar estudiantes.
Ryoro Kurojima (Sadao Abe) is the director of a Tokyo apology center. His job is to teach others how to apologize. Ryoro Kurojima solves problems by using his apology techniques on anything from simple arbitration to a national crisis.
