The 43rd episode of the NHK Asadora drama series "Kaze,Kaoru " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Ai Mikami and Juri Kosaka , aired on May 27th. In that episode, there was a scene in which Kiyo (Akiko Kikuchi), a colleague of Rin (Mikami) and Naomi (Uesaka), talks about her past, which became a topic of discussion among viewers.
Kiyo had been taking care of the children of patients who were coming for checkups. When the nurse, Tsuya (Ayaka Higashino), asked her, "It's taking on more work, so could you stop taking care of the patients' children?", Kiyo happily replied, "Taking care of children is harder than you'd think."
She continued, "I was divorced because I couldn't have children. So I'm not used to handling children... After the divorce I went back to my parents' house, but my brother had inherited the house, so I didn't have a place to go... So I left home and went to nursing school, but I never imagined I'd end up babysitting in a hospital..."
When Tsuya retorted, "Then... you don't have to take care of the baby so much," Kiyo smiled and said, "At first, it was hard to even look after the baby... but it's gradually becoming fun." Tsuya couldn't say anything in return, and Tae (Erika Ikuta) overheard their exchange from outside the room.
On social media, comments included: "Kiyo's past was revealed in an unexpected way," "A painful past... it makes me want to cry when she talks about it with such a calm face," "Ah, so she was divorced because she couldn't have children," "These kinds of stories are painful," "That's just how things were back then," "Everyone has their own struggles," and "Both Kiyo and Tsuya, who is listening to the story, seem to have their own struggles."
