The second episode of the TBS Sunday Theatre drama " Mikami Sensei " (Sunday 9pm), starring actor Tori Matsuzaka , was broadcast on January 26th, recording an average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region, same below) of 11.2% for households and 6.8% for individuals.
The drama is an original "great reversal story of education revival" in which Takashi Mikami (played by Matsuzaka), a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, who wants to change the Japanese education system, takes to the podium at a private high school and stands up to authority while guiding 18-year-old high school students living in the Reiwa era.
In the second episode, Kanzaki ( Daiken Okudaira), concerned by the words of the emperor that the murder that occurred at the exam venue and the adultery article he leaked are related, goes to meet Saejima (Takako Tokiwa), a former teacher at Rintoku Gakuen. As the truth comes to light, the emperor has the students debate Kanzaki's article. At the same time, Tsukada (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) and Makino (Masaki Okada) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology begin to take action.
Murder, adultery news, Rintoku Gakuen, the Ministry of Education. What is the connection between these things, and what is the murderer's purpose?