It was Ai Mikami on April 27th that the average weekly viewership rating (calculated from Asadora , Juri Kosaka region) for the fourth week of the NHK morning drama series " Kaze,Kaoru" (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), titled "Our Society" (April 20th-24th), was 14.1% for households and 7.7% for individuals. This is higher than the previous week's ratings of 13.8% for households and 7.5% for individuals.
Week 4 started on April 20th. The viewership ratings for each episode were as follows: Episode 16: 14.2% household, 7.7% individual; Episode 17: 13.8% household, 7.6% individual; Episode 18: 14.3% household, 7.8% individual; Episode 19: 13.7% household, 7.5% individual; and Episode 20: 14.4% household, 7.9% individual.
"Kaze,Kaoru" is the 114th morning Asadora. Based on the story of two trained nurses, Chika Ozeki and Masa Suzuki, who graduated from the same nursing school, the drama depicts how the two grow through their struggles and clashes with each other in how to interact with patients and doctors, and eventually become the "ultimate buddy" team. Mikami plays the main character, Rin Ichinose, and Uesaka plays the other main character, Naomi Oya.
In the fourth week, when Naomi (Uesaka) heads to the slums to help Sutematsu (Mikako Tabe) with her soup kitchen, she finds Yoshie (Harada Taizo) and Rin (Mikami) also there, helping with the soup kitchen.
Amidst the awkward atmosphere, a boy falls ill. Seeing Naomi and Rin immediately try to help the boy, Sutematsu takes an interest in them and asks them if they would like to become trainee nurses. Rin is interested, but Mitsu (Mizuno Miki) is strongly against it. Then, one day, an incident occurs.
In order to get her daughter Tamaki (Ruka Miyajima) back, Rin heads to Tochigi and reunites with Kotaro (Toranosuke Kobayashi). Kotaro tells Rin that Okuda's shop is still thriving, but Kameki (Takahiro Miura) is getting drunk and causing trouble.
Concerned Kotaro, Rin tells him she will go to the Okuda house alone. Rin faces Kameki and Sada (Kie Negishi) for the first time in a long time and tells them of her intention to divorce...
Rin, who has returned to Tokyo with Tamaki, tells Mitsu of her determination to become a trained nurse in order to raise Tamaki. Meanwhile, Naomi, who has learned that Kohinata (played by Kisetsu Fujiwara) is not a naval lieutenant but a con artist, also chooses the path to becoming a trained nurse...and so the story unfolds.
