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	Title	Debut	Ending	Notes
6	Ohanahan (おはなはん)	1966	1967	Starring Fumie Kashiyama
11	Mayuko hitori (繭子ひとり)	1971	1972	Starring Karin Yamaguchi. Second highest rated Asadora with an average rating of 47.4%.
12	Ai yori aoku (藍より青く)	1972	1973	Starring Hiroko Maki. Screenplay by Taiichi Yamada. Third highest rated Asadora at 47.3%.
15	Mizuiro no toki (水色の時)	1975	1975	Starring Shinobu Ōtake. The first six-month Asadora. About a young woman aiming to become a doctor. Average rating of 40.1%.
31	Oshin (おしん)	1983	1984	Starring Ayako Kobayashi, Yūko Tanaka, and Nobuko Otowa – Oshin's perseverance pulls her through various challenges during her life. Episode on November 12, 1983 is the highest rated in Japanese television drama history, with 62.9 percent.
34	Miotsukushi (澪つくし)	1985	1985	Starring Yasuko Sawaguchi. Average rating of 44.3%.
36	Hanekonma (はね駒)	1986	1986	Starring Yuki Saito. Average rating of 41.7%.
41	Jun-chan no ōenka (純ちゃんの応援歌)	1988	1989	Starring Tomoko Yamaguchi in her acting debut. Average rating of 38.6%.
48	Hirari (ひらり)	1992	1993	Starring Hikari Ishida. Screenplay by Makiko Uchidate, who is a member of the Japan Sumo Association, and is involved in sumo matters, such as advancing rikishi to the rank of Yokozuna. The storyline evolves around sumo - as the heroine become a nutritionist and works within the sumo system. Average rating of 36.9%.
55	Futarikko (ふたりっこ)	1996	1997	About a female professional shogi player and her twin sister. Starring Hiromi Iwasaki and Maiko Kikuchi, with Kana Mikura and Mana Mikura (ManaKana) playing them as children. Average rating of 29.0%
58	Ten Urara (天うらら)	1998	1998	About a young woman training to be a carpenter who, through her own family situation, learns about the need for a barrier-free world. Starring Risa Sudo.
59	Yanchakure (やんちゃくれ)	1998	1999	About a young woman in Osaka who helps resurrect a ship-building company. Starring Miho Konishi.
60	Suzuran (すずらん)	1999	1999	Follows the life of a woman, raised in a coal town in Hokkaido by a father who worked on the railroad, from the 1920s to the 1930s. Starring Nagiko Tōno and Chieko Baishō.
61	Asuka (あすか)	1999	2000	Asuka learns to become a wagashi maker, even though wagashi is a heavily male-dominated field. Starring Yūko Takeuchi.
62	Watashi no aozora (私の青空)	2000	2000	About a young woman whose fiancé leaves her, pregnant, at the altar. With her son, she leaves for Tsukiji to make it on her own. Starring Tomoko Tabata.
63	Ōdorī (Audrey オードリー)	2000	2001	About a young woman involved in the Japanese film industry in Kyoto. Starring Aya Okamoto.
64	Churasan (ちゅらさん)	2001	2001	The first Asadora set in Okinawa. Starring Ryōko Kuninaka.
65	Honmamon (ほんまもん)	2001	2002	About a young woman striving to become a chef in Wakayama Prefecture. Starring Chizuru Ikewaki.
66	Sakura (さくら)	2002	2002	Sakura Matsushita is a third-generation Japanese-American, living in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her dream is to become an ESL teacher in Japan, and moves there to achieve her dream.
67	Manten (まんてん)	2002	2003	Starring Mao Miyaji. About a woman who studies to be a meteorologist.
68	Kokoro (こころ)	2003	2003	Starring Noriko Nakagoshi. Set in Asakusa, Tokyo.
69	Teruteru Kazoku (てるてる家族)	2003	2004	Starring Satomi Ishihara and based on a novel by Rei Nakanishi. First Asadora to average under 20% in ratings.
70	Tenka (天花)	2004	2004	Starring Ema Fujisawa as a young woman from Sendai, Miyagi
71	Wakaba (わかば)	2004	2005	Starring Natsuki Harada as a young woman who becomes a landscaper
72	Fight (ファイト)	2005	2005	Yuika Motokariya stars as 15-year old Kido Yū, living with her family in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. Yū faces tough times, and relies on the friendship of a horse to keep her spirits up.
73	Kaze no Haruka (風のハルカ)	2005	2006	Starring Eri Murakawa. Takes place in Yufuin, Ōita Prefecture. Haruka's goal is to become a travel agent, and moves to Osaka, leaving her father and sister behind, to achieve her dream.
74	Junjō Kirari (純情きらり)	2006	2006	Starring Aoi Miyazaki. Sakurako's dream is to become a jazz pianist. Events take place in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture.
75	Imo Tako Nankin (芋たこなんきん)	2006	2007	Based on a true story, Naomi Fujiyama plays the heroine role of Machiko Hanaoka - a 37-year old woman who dreams of becoming a novelist. She marries into an extended family. Events take place in the city of Osaka.
76	Dondo Hare (Perfect Blue Sky) (どんど晴れ)	2007	2007	Stars Manami Higa. Screenplay by Eriko Komatsu. Natsumi marries an heir of a high class ryokan, located in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture. She then becomes the ryokan's okami or manager.
77	Chiritotechin (ちりとてちん)	2007	2008	Starring Shihori Kanjiya. The storyline focuses on the art of rakugo. Kiyomi's dream is to become a rakugoka, despite rakugo being a male-dominated field.
78	Hitomi (瞳)	2008	2008	Starring Nana Eikura. Hitomi's dream is to become a dancer of modern music.
79	Dandan (だんだん?)	2008	2009	Starring identical twins Mana and Kana Mikura (of Futarikko fame.) Finding each years after being separated as children, together they work at reaching their dreams as signers.
80	Tsubasa (つばさ?)	2009	2009	Tsubasa works at a local radio station, and eventually becomes a disc jockey.
81	Wel-kame (ウェルかめ?)	2009	2010	About a girl from Minami-cho, Tokushima who, inspired by seeing a sea turtles when she was six, strives to become a magazine editor. Lowest rated Asadora at 13.5%.
82	Gegege no Nyobo (ゲゲゲの女房)	2010	2010	Starring Nao Matsushita. Fumie is the wife of manga artist Shigeru Mizuki. The screen play and based on her rags to riches biography.
83	Teppan (てっぱん?)	2010	2011	Starring Miori Takimoto and Sumiko Fuji. Akari's natural mother is originally from Osaka. She moves to Osaka to live with her grandmother to learn more about her mother. She learns that her grandmother closed the okonomiyaki restaurant after Akari's teenage mother ran away. Akari then re-opens the restaurant.
84	Ohisama (おひさま)	2011	2011	Starring Mao Inoue. Yoko, the heroine's name, means "child of the sun," thus the title of the series Ohisama, which also meaning sun. Yoko's dream is to become a school teacher. But, she also experiences tough times during the Pacific War.
85	Carnation (カーネーション)	2011	2012	Starring Machiko Ono. Based on the life of famous fashion designer Ayako Koshino. Her three daughter would eventually all become fashion designers.
86	Umechan Sensei (梅ちゃん先生)	2012	2012	Starring Maki Horikita, who plays a young woman striving to become a physician in post-World War II Tokyo.
87	Jun to Ai (純と愛)	2012	2013	Starring Natsuna

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