The first Sunday of this year. That means the new NHK taiga drama(大河ドラマ),literally Big River Drama, the annual year-long historical fiction television series started at 8 pm. This year's title is Ryomaden (龍馬伝). This is the 49th series.
Sakamoto Ryoma(坂本龍馬) is a very famous hero at the end of the Edo era. The story is told through the eye of Iwasaki Yataro(岩崎弥太郎), the founder of Mitsubishi(三菱財閥：Mitsubishi zaibatsu).
Ryoma is starred by a popular singer and songwriter, and actor Fukuyama Masaharu(福山雅治). I have just watched the first episode. The child actor was very cute.
As January 3, there were two big sports events. One is the Rice Bowl, the annual American Football national championship game pits the Japanese college champion and the champion of the corporate X-League. This year there were 35,742 audience and the champion of the corporate X-League Kashima (鹿島) won by 19-16.
The other was the second half of the 86th Hakone Ekiden(箱根駅伝). Toyo University (東洋大学：Toyo daigaku) won this year again.
Congratulations!
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