Takaya Okamoto

『ハッピー・リタイアメント』 (Happy Retirement) は、浅田次郎の小説。30年以上前の借金（法律上は時効である）に道義的責任を感じて返済した、という浅田自身の実体験を元にしている。2015年10月18日にテレビ朝日系の「日曜エンタ」枠でドラマ特別企画として放送。主演は佐藤浩市。

Katherine Turner initially accompanied her father, Vice President of the United States, on his official trip to Japan but decided to stay longer to study the Japanese art of flower arrangement for her business back in the States. Yukio Hamaguchi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and also a very good friend of Katherine’s father, assigns his nephew Ichiro to escort Katherine during her stay. Ichiro is halfhearted at first but when Katherine’s old friend Maiko becomes the victim of a murder case, Katherine and Ichiro start to reveal their talent as brilliant detectives by untangling clues and solving the case together.

In June 1945 Yamauchi Fusako goes alone to Manchuria where her husband, Setsuo, a second lieutenant of the Kwantung Army, is based. At that time, 200,000 Japanese had settled in Manchuria, a Japanese occupied territory, as settler communities. Fujita Hideo’s family worked hard to clear the wilderness, but the Soviets are lying in wait for an invasion of Manchuria from the North. Fusako is safely reunited with her husband at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army’s Fifth Training Squadron in Manchuria’s Dahushan. Setsuo also takes good care of his beloved wife, but his position is an instructor to the young soldiers who will eventually carry out suicide attacks. He wonders if he should have summoned her and speaks of these mixed feelings to his commanding officer, Michiba Kazuo, a first lieutenant. Michiba is concerned about Setsuo’s attempts to cherish his wife before the coming showdown on homeland. Fusako learns about life in Manchuria from Michiba’s wife, Etsu.

考えることは金と女のことばかりで、お気楽に毎日を過ごすことがモットーの青年・ガジロウ。そんなある日、交通事故が縁となって幽霊となったユウコら、3人のポールダンサーと年配の運転手に出会う。小学生の息子を残して死んだのを悔やむユウコをはじめ、成仏できぬ事情を抱える彼らは遺した大金と引き換えに無念の代理解消をガジロウに依頼。それを引き受けた彼は、花嫁姿で結婚式に出席したり、男子高校生に愛の告白をしたりと、それぞれの最後の願いをかなえていく。

考えることは金と女のことばかりで、お気楽に毎日を過ごすことがモットーの青年・ガジロウ。そんなある日、交通事故が縁となって幽霊となったユウコら、3人のポールダンサーと年配の運転手に出会う。小学生の息子を残して死んだのを悔やむユウコをはじめ、成仏できぬ事情を抱える彼らは遺した大金と引き換えに無念の代理解消をガジロウに依頼。それを引き受けた彼は、花嫁姿で結婚式に出席したり、男子高校生に愛の告白をしたりと、それぞれの最後の願いをかなえていく。

Due to the high suicide rate among youths in Japan, the government implements experiments to uncover the causes behind the high suicide rate. Children are selected and placed in a YSC facility under constant surveillance. At the age of 10, the children are then give a detonator with a red switch. They are told if they press the switch they will die immediately. Most of the children under the experiment, eventually presses the switch and dies. After the completion of the experiment 6 kids remain who did not press the switch. The 6 kids are; strong-minded Masami, weak Naoto, hot-tempered Hiro, impulsive Ryota, wheelchair bound Kimiaki and Aiko who is always thinking of her parents. These 6 kids survived even though they were pressured by project manager Tsukuda to press the switch.