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Mieko Harada
Born: 26th Dec 1958 Toshima, Tokyo, Japan
Dept: Acting
Mieko Harada (原田 美枝子, Harada Mieko, born on December 26, 1958) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She has played various roles in many motion pictures, television shows and television dramas since her debut in 1974.
She most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film Ran, and further collaborated with him in his 1990 film Dreams. Harada also most notably provided the voice for Kaguya in the 2002 anime film InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass. She is currently working on television dramas as of 2007.
She won the award for best actress at the 21st Hochi Film Award for Village of Dreams and at the 23rd Hochi Film Award for Begging for Love.
Harada is married to Ryo Ishibashi since 1987 and has three children.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 133
Film: 97 (73%)
Television: 36 (27%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Documentary, Adventure, War & Politics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Animation
Filmography
May 2026 (first aired)
A bullied high schooler becomes an overnight sensation after a viral video. But when his newfound fame turns sour, he must learn to fight for himself. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Jan 2026 (first aired)
A regular pastry chef, framed for his wife's murder, embarks on a suspenseful journey to prove his innocence by manipulating the detective in charge o ... view
Character:
Ryoko Hayase (10 ep.)
Jan 2026 (first aired)
A quirky detective-inventor tackles bizarre cases with a laid-back style, surrounded by his outrageous inventions. ... view
Character:
Ichinose Ema (8 ep.)
Oct 2025 (first aired)
A brilliant chocolatier who's afraid of making eye contact meets an heir who can't touch others — but somehow, they're immune to each other. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (8 ep.)
2025
While visiting Japan, philosopher Sushila and her astrophysicist husband Kenji attend the final performance of the dancer Mako before she retires. Su ... view
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Mako
Apr 2024 (first aired)
At the height of his career and powers, Japan's master fixer, who has guided politicians and business heads through some of Japan's biggest scandals, ... view
Character:
Shiori Watanabe (10 ep.)
Original title: そして僕は途方に暮れる
2023
Yuichi Sugawara is a freelancer, who spends his days meaninglessly. He lives with his long-term girlfriend Satomi Suzuki. One day, they start to argue ... view
Character:
Original title: 百花
2022
Diagnosed with dementia, Yuriko's mind quickly begins to fade. Yet, for her son Izumi, memories of the mother feel as vivid as when he lived them. One ... view
Character:
Yuriko
Original title: 津田梅子～お札になった留学生～
2022
Tsuda Umeko was born in December 31, 1864 and became a pioneer in women's eductation. In 1871, Tsuda Umeko, with her father's recommendation, went to ... view
Character:
Ume Tsuda (late years)
Original title: 明日をへぐる
2021
This documentary records the lives of people in a mountain village surrounding the kozo (paper mulberry) tree, a raw material used to make Tosa washi ... view
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Narrator (voice)
Oct 2019 (first aired)
A young man has college and a failed business behind him. Unemployed and planning his next steps he is lodging with is mother, a small business owner. ... view
Character:
Fusae Kishibe (10 ep.)
Jul 2019 (first aired)
Jun'ichi is a young man without job or home who seems to have a great power of fascination over woman. He crosses the paths of different women who are ... view
Character:
Ayuko (1 ep.)
Original title: こんな夜更けにバナナかよ 愛しき実話
2018
A man is immobile and incapacitated, but has professional and nonprofessional volunteers serve and help him. Though, he takes full advantage of the si ... view
Character:
Hiroko Nohara
2018
Story of displacement, power, and vulnerability told through the relationship between a hostess, the bartender she loves, and the boss who controls th ... view
Character:
Mika
Original title: 琥珀の夢
2018
a TV drama special based on the life of SUNTORY's founder Shinjiro Torii ... view
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Jul 2018 (first aired)
17-year-old Aoi came to Yui Obstetrics and Gynecology clinic as a part-time nurse apprentice in Summer 1997. Right after her entry, she is shocked aft ... view
Character:
Mie Sakaki (10 ep.)
Original title: 68歳の新入社員
2018
Hitsujido Honpo, an established Japanese-style sweets company known for its traditional flavours and reliability, has maintained a modest popularity. ... view
Character:
Fumiko Niimoto
Original title: 海辺のリア
2017
Chokichi Kuwahata was once a leading actor, but he is ravaged by dementia and old age now. His daughter and the men in her life go against his wishes ... view
Character:
Yukiko
Jul 2016 (first aired)
Hinako Todo (Haru) is a first-year detective who graduated from the police academy at the top of her class. She always carries with herself a bottle o ... view
Character:
Taeko Ishigami (9 ep.)
Original title: 世界から猫が消えたなら
2016
A postman learns that he doesn't have much time left to live due to a terminal illness. A devil then appears in front of him and offers to extend his ... view
Character:
Postman's Mother
Original title: 果し合い
2015
Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up his swo ... view
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Oct 2015 (first aired)
Hitomi Ashizawa works at a real estate corporation as a team leader. She is engaged to physician. On the 100th day before the wedding, Hitomi Ashizawa ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (10 ep.)
Original title: 蜩ノ記
2014
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. ... view
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Original title: 蜩ノ記
2014
A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life. ... view
Character:
Orie
Jun 2014 (first aired)
A fragment of the lives of five 55-year-old men and women. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (5 ep.)
Original title: みをつくし料理帖
2014
It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking competition. One d ... view
Character:
Original title: ぼくたちの家族
2014
The emotional journey of a four-member family that fails to recognize that it is rapidly growing apart until the mother is diagnosed with terminal can ... view
Character:
Reiko Wakana
Feb 2014 (first aired)
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential" and Gelsey Kirkland's "Dancing on my Grave" comes an insider’s look into the secret wo ... view
Character:
Sadako (2 ep.)
Jan 2014 (first aired)
Your whole outlook on life can change in an instant. Takuto Sawada (Haruma Miura) is your average college student. But one day, he finds out that he h ... view
Character:
Sawako Sawada (11 ep.)
Original title: 恋
2013
The story is set in the 70s where Ishihara plays Fumiko, an university student, who gets involved romantically with her assistant professor Katase Shi ... view
Character:
Fumiko Yano (2013)
Oct 2013 (first aired)
Second modern remake of the Kaiki Daisakusen tv show. ... view
Character:
Chikage Matoya (4 ep.)
2013
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left Stockho ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 奇跡のリンゴ
2013
Akinori Kimura (Sadao Abe) and his wife Mieko (Miho Kanno) opens an apple orchard in their hometown of Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture. Due to Meiko's a ... view
Character:
Mikami
Apr 2013 (first aired)
During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (8 ep.)
Original title: みをつくし料理帖
2012
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she mov ... view
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Original title: ふがいない僕は空を見た
2012
Based on the award-winning novel of the same name, this boldly erotic yet movingly tender portrait of a group of vulnerable, variously wounded people ... view
Character:
Midwife
Original title: あなたへ
2012
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown. Eiji also learns that his wife letter for him at t ... view
Character:
Kumiko Tsukamoto
Original title: ヘルタースケルター
2012
Top model Lilico, having recently undergone multiple cosmetic surgeries, begins to experience troubling side effects. As she desperately tries to reta ... view
Character:
Wachi Hisako
Original title: 魔術はささやく
2011
A woman named Kazuko (Kimura) who was guilty of a “serious crime” in the past, along with three of her friends. Those friends suddenly begin to di ... view
Character:
Original title: ロック ～わんこの島～
2011
A boy, Shin, and his family are forced to evacuate the island of Miyakejima, when it erupts in 2000. Shin's dog, Rock, is mistakenly left behind. ... view
Character:
Original title: ミロクローゼ
2011
Three tales of love told through wildly intoxicating, colorful stories. When platinum redhead Ovreneli Vreneligare was just a little boy, he fell in l ... view
Character:
Oryuu
2010
The true life story of Leonie Gilmour, whose life crossed continents, wars and cultures, embodied with courage and passion in search of art and freedo ... view
Character:
Umeko Tsuda
Oct 2010 (first aired)
Takenouchi plays an aquarium employee named Kengo, who seems ordinary at first glance but actually possesses a secret that he would sacrifice everythi ... view
Character:
Kazuko Okada (10 ep.)
Original title: てぃだかんかん ～海とサンゴと小さな奇跡～
2010
Based on a true story, "Sunshine Ahead" tells the story of environmentalist Koji Kinjo & his wife who embarks on a ambitious plan to create coral ... view
Character:
Hanae Kinjo
Apr 2010 (first aired)
In the Ningyo-cho area of Nihonbashi, Tokyo - a woman was murdered. Detective Kaga Kyoichiro, who just transferred to the Nihonbashi police precinct, ... view
Character:
Mineko Mitsui (10 ep.)
Nov 2009 (first aired)
Saka no Ue no Kumo is an NHK 21st Century special drama which was aired over three years starting from November 29, 2009. The series runs 13 episodes ... view
Character:
正岡八重 (9 ep.)
Original title: 60歳のラブレター
2009
Too shy to speak out the word of appreciation, too busy to show that you care... Many excuses lie between each and every couple, when they look back t ... view
Character:
Chihiro Tachibana
Original title: ブタがいた教室
2008
A school teacher suggests to his class that they ought to raise a pig together and eat it when it grows up. ... view
Character:
Principal Takahara
2008
After years as a prisoner of war Michael Adams, a former Navy SEAL, is trying to live a normal life. However, his life is turned upside-down when his ... view
Character:
Scared Japanese Prisoner
Original title: 茶々 天涯の貴妃
2007
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa. ... view
Character:
Oichi
Original title: どろろ
2007
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge t ... view
Character:
Yuri
Original title: THE 有頂天ホテル
2006
New Year's Eve at a posh hotel and all should be shipshape. It is not. There is the traditional party, an official ceremony, entertainment and a speci ... view
Character:
Yumi Hotta
Original title: 飛鳥へ、そしてまだ見ぬ子へ
2005
Spring 2005, Okinawa. It's the wedding of Sawamura Seiji's second daughter, Seiko (Fujisawa Ema). Miwa (Harada Mieko), her mother, is watching over he ... view
Character:
Original title: 蝉しぐれ
2005
A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a p ... view
Character:
Tose
Original title: 亡国のイージス
2005
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No soone ... view
Character:
Yoshie Miyazu
Original title: ＨＩＮＯＫＩＯ ヒノキオ
2005
Satoru, a wheelchair-bound elementary student, locks himself away from the outside world after his mother dies. His father designs a remote-controlled ... view
Character:
Sayuri Iwamoto
Apr 2005 (first aired)
Yuki, mother of the Mashiba family, is the grease that keeps this well-oiled machine running and its seven members happy and healthy. But when Yuki he ... view
Character:
Yumi Mashiba (11 ep.)
Jan 2005 (first aired)
A story of Sato Hachiro, poet in the Showa period who is known for his lyric poems and songs for children. Despite the delicate and sensitive style of ... view
Character:
Shina (9 ep.)
Jul 2004 (first aired)
Tetsuo Nagai (Yosuke Eguchi) is a probation officer who specializes in helping offenders who have just been released from prison and are reintegrating ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (11 ep.)
Original title: 半落ち
2004
Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its chara ... view
Character:
Keiko Kaji
Original title: 犬夜叉 鏡の中の夢幻城
2002
With their most formidable foe vanquished, Inuyasha and his comrades begin returning to their everyday lives. But their peace is fleeting as another a ... view
Character:
Kaguya (voice)
Original title: OUT
2002
When pregnant lunchbox factory worker Yayoi has finally taken all the abuse she can handle, she strangles her brutish husband and disposes of the body ... view
Character:
Masako Katori
Original title: 木曜組曲
2002
A closed-room mystery where five women gathered in memory of a mysteriously dead female writer to unravel the mystery behind her death. Based on the n ... view
Character:
Original title: 折り梅
2002
About a family shouldering an unexpected responsibility when Alzheimer's disease strikes their grandmother. The superb cast portrays this serious and ... view
Character:
Original title: はつ恋
2000
This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a mal ... view
Character:
Shizue Aida
Original title: 雨あがる
2000
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst ... view
Character:
Okin
Original title: 非・バランス
2000
13-year old Chiaki Matsumoto enters middle school with two rules for herself: 1. Always stay cool and 2. Don’t make friends. Having suffered bullyin ... view
Character:
Chiaki's Mother
Original title: 学校の怪談4
1999
Taking advantage of their summer holiday, Kō and his little sister Yae visit their cousin at Nozaki located at the sea-side. However, on the day they ... view
Character:
Original title: 虹の岬
1999
In postwar Japan, a quiet housewife and an aging poet fall into a scandalous love that costs them everything — family, reputation, and comfort — y ... view
Character:
Character:
Oct 1998 (first aired)
Nemureru Mori is a drama that aired on Fuji TV. It first aired in Japan from 8 October 1998 to 24 December 1998.
It is written by Nozawa Hisashi, sta ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (12 ep.)
Original title: 愛を乞うひと
1998
During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused. ... view
Character:
Terue Yamaoka
Original title: 女刑事ＲＩＫＯ 聖母の深き淵
1998
The film centers on Riko Murakami, a tough-as-nails detective who is also the single mother of a young boy. At work, she has hit a wall investigating ... view
Character:
Original title: 絵の中のぼくの村
1996
Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteac ... view
Character:
Mizue Tashima
Apr 1996 (first aired)
SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it ... view
Character:
Bistro Guest (1 ep.)
Original title: 超能力者 未知への旅人
1994
Hikaru, an ordinary man, discovers a way to unleash the supernatural powers hidden inside his soul, allowing him to cure others with his newfound “k ... view
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Character:
Original title: 息子
1991
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, bu ... view
Character:
Reiko
Original title: ストロベリーロード
1991
Hisa Ishii and his brother Akira emigrate from Japan to the United States. They settle in rural California and start a strawberry farm, slowly integra ... view
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Original title: 映画の肖像 黒澤明 大林宣彦 映画的対話 MAKING OF 'DREAMS'
1990
This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and interviews w ... view
Character:
Self
Original title: 式部物語
1990
Toyoichi Otomo suffers from psychological and spiritual troubles after a horrific industrial accident. He lives with his elderly mother and wife near ... view
Character:
Terue Otomo
Original title: 釣りバカ日誌2
1989
Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing. ... view
Character:
Original title: 帝都物語
1988
A demonic reincarnation of a Japanese general from the 10th century appears in the early 20th century Tokyo with a mission to destroy the blooming cit ... view
Character:
Keiko Tatsumiya
Original title: 魔夏少女
1987
The Special is loosely inspired by horror classics of the time, such as "Carry" and "Fury." The story is about a little girl who has nightmares and a ... view
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Character:
Yae
Original title: プルシアンブルーの肖像
1986
Fuyuhana, is bullied child at school, because she was not able to speak until recently. This was due to the accidental death of one of her classmates, ... view
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Original title: 火宅の人
1986
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work ... view
Character:
Keiko Yajima
Original title: 乱
1985
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between ... view
Character:
Lady Kaede
Original title: 時代劇スペシャル_子連れ狼
1984
Ogami Itto, framed for treason and surviving a deadly attack, becomes a lone assassin with his son. They face ruthless ruffians, setting the stage for ... view
Character:
Osen
Original title: 子連れ狼
1984
Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the h ... view
Character:
Original title: もどり川
1983
The story of Takeha, a free-spirited genius poet who lived through Taisho Romanticism, and the women who gave themselves over to his ambitions. ... view
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Original title: 傘次郎・新子捕物日記 夫婦十手
1982
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the ... view
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Original title: 傘次郎・新子捕物日記 夫婦河童
1981
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a mysteri ... view
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Original title: なんとなく、クリスタル
1981
While her boyfriend Jun'ichi is out of town, college student and part-time model Yuri passes the time in Tokyo by shopping for luxury products, visiti ... view
Character:
Makiko
Original title: ダンプ渡り鳥
1981
Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets. ... view
Character:
Yoriko Ozaki
Character:
Mie Shimazaki
Original title: 翔んだカップル
1980
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrolls in a prestigious high school ... view
Character:
Shizu
Original title: 翔べイカロスの翼
1980
A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening acrobat ... view
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Original title: あゝ野麦峠
1979
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which ... view
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Original title: 地獄
1979
Hell manifests itself through the sins, shame and desires of an upper class rural family and a mother's grief from beyond the grave. ... view
Character:
Aki Mizunuma / Miho Ikegata
Original title: その後の仁義なき戦い
1979
Two Kyushu based yakuza groups are desperate for domaination of the area. When more powerful yakuza groups get involved in their power struggle, a gro ... view
Character:
Akiko Negishi
Original title: 赤穂城断絶
1978
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the reve ... view
Character:
Hatsu Hashimoto
Original title: トラック野郎 突撃一番星
1978
Hoping to romance an alien, Momojiro meets beautiful animal trainer Eriko instead. Then he and Jonathan get drawn into her old friend's fraud. ... view
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Original title: 恋人岬
1977
Follows a female Japanese television producer and a young man in Guam, touching on suicide and romance. ... view
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Original title: 錆びた炎
1977
In the early hours of April 13th, a five year old hemophiliac child was kidnapped by someone from Tanemura General Hospital in Tokyo, Setagaya. Tokyo ... view
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Character:
Original title: 青春の殺人者
1976
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, ten ... view
Character:
Keiko Tsuneyota
Original title: パーマネント・ブルー 真夏の恋
1976
In a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes her back to his family's inn to nurse her, but he soo ... view
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Original title: 大地の子守歌
1976
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and decepti ... view
Character:
Rin
Original title: 凍河
1976
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the patients there. ... view
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Original title: 港のヨーコ・ヨコハマ・ヨコスカ
1975
A young girl travels between Yokohama and Yokosuka, searching for her older sister to tell her about their mother's death. ... view
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Apr 1975 (first aired)
The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her mother, who is a nurse. The first six- ... view
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今泉恭子（晋松の娘） (156 ep.)
Original title: 恋は緑の風の中
1974
A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with ... view
Character:
Yukiko Matsushima
Original title: ともだち
1974
Shinta is a sixth grader in Kawasaki City a troublemaker that dreams to become a soccer player. Yoshiko, a classmate who moved to Kawasaki from Iwate ... view
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