Kyôhei Shibata

Former police officer Kaji killed his wife with Alzheimer disease and reported himself to the police, but he never tells the truth about where he spent two days between those incidents. Those around him, originally starting with their own agenda, eventually become sympathetic to him and the truth eventually is revealed. (hogacentral.com)

Gunshi Kanbei (Strategist Kanbei) is a-year long taiga drama by NHK in 2014. This fictional series consists of 50 episodes and follows the journey of Kuroda Kanbei, a historical figure who lived during Japan's Warring States period as he navigated the murky water of political intrigues and military conquests of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu - the three unificators of feudal Japan.

This series revolves around the investigations of Detectives Takayama and Oshita. Famous for their unique personalities and unorthodox methods of catching the criminals, this crime-fighting pair never fail to find themselves in the middle of another exciting case. --- groink (from Avistaz), the series became very popular and spawned films, spin-offs series, and books

Fukuzawa Yukichi opens a school for samurai, who aim to learn Dutch language, to ne used for for overseas trading. But when he was in Yokohama he learned that English language is way more global & important. His struggle against patriarchal mindset leads his school to become one of the oldest universities in Japan. Set in the period pre and durung the Japanese civil wars that marked the Meiji Restoration, abd so a period of great turmoil & confusion (IMDB & ME).

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launched a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.

Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been having an affair with a live-in mistress, Ryōko, at his apartment. Tokiko tells her two sons, Tarō and Jirō, that she has decided to divorce their father. The children are shocked but understand their mother's position. Kazuya realizes the damage he has done and tries to remedy the situation. (wikipedia.org)

Inaba Rika, whose childhood dream was to become a journalist, is instead the director of an informative television program. (imdb)