Suzume is a girl born to a family running a small restaurant in Gifu Prefecture. She loses her hearing in one ear from a disease. Encouraged by her loving parents and childhood friend, she lives through an eventful life with a tenacious spirit.

A young woman Chiaki whose family runs an old miso company in Nagano Prefecture, the only daughter of old traditional family. For generations, they were making soybean paste for living. Now she needs to take over this business and rebuild it. She lives through the hardships of postwar Japan.

描述岩手縣一位內向的女孩天野秋從期望當上“海女”的工作而努力時，逐漸成為地方的偶像，又漸漸成為全國偶像的故事。

The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki is the heroine, married to Shuichi who must go to war. She stays home and takes on the role of other war widows, managing business and a Chinese restaurant.

Natsumi is the 23 years old daughter of a master baker in Yokohama and in training with her father to become a pastry chef. She lives with her parents and younger brother in Yokohama. One day she travels to Iwate Prefecture with her boyfriend Masaki for his grandmother Katsuno's 77th birthday. While they are there, Katsuno, head okami of a famous ryokan in Morioka City, becomes ill and asks Masaki to return to run the ryokan. Natsumi returns to Yokohama and later Masaki visits, asking her to disregard their earlier plans to get married because he will return to Morioka as requested by Katsuno. However, Natsumi surprises him with a vow to become the ryokan's okami. Is Natsumi in for clear skies as suggested by the series name?

NHK's 102nd morning drama depicts the life of a famous composer. Koyama Yuichi with his wife Oto. They meet each other through music and overcome hardships together. Yuichi composes songs that became "Yells" for people all over Japan in the Showa Era (1926-1989) in which radical changes were going on.　

劇本由日本名編劇橋田壽賀子參照日本八佰伴創業史寫成的劇本。該劇以日本明治年間山形縣佃農谷村家的女兒阿信從7歲到84歲的生命為主線，講述一個女人為了生存掙扎、奮鬥、創業的故事。阿信是八佰伴創辦人和田加津（與其夫和田良平共同創辦八佰伴）的寫照，也成為當時風靡一時的女性創業者代名詞。

劇情進展方式由83歲的阿信外出旅行，回到過去曾生活過的地方回憶自己的一生。

《多謝款待》（日語：ごちそうさん），是日本放送協會（NHK）於2013年下半年播出的晨間小說連續劇，NHK大阪放送局製作，是晨間劇第89部作品，由杏主演。

故事發生在日本的昭和時代，有森櫻子（宮崎葵 飾）出生在一個普通的家庭之中。櫻子自幼失去了母親，由身為地質學家的父親源一郎（三浦友和 飾）一手拉扯長大。櫻子上面有兩個姐姐笛子（北乃紀伊 飾）和杏子（尾崎千瑛 飾），兩個女孩因為這個家庭早早失去了母親而過早的肩負起了重任，因此性格有些強勢，在強硬的姐姐們面前，性子軟弱的櫻子難免顯得有些唯唯諾諾搖擺不定。

　　實際上，櫻子的心裡一直埋藏著一個音樂夢想，她想成為一名鋼琴家，可是，彼時的日本剛剛遭受戰爭的蹂躪，一片破敗頹靡的景象，在殘酷的現實面前，櫻子不得不選擇退讓。

Massan is based on the lives of Masataka Taketsuru and his wife Jessie Roberta "Rita" Cowan, a Scotswoman Taketsuru met while studying abroad.

The twin girls Tajima Megumi and Ichijo Nozomi was separated at birth after their parents had divorced. Years later they meet each other. Both of them have a career within the entertainment industry. Megumi who lives in Matsue, Shimane sings in the band Shijimijiru, and Nozomi is a maiko, an apprentice geisha in Kyoto.

The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever children's goods store in Japan. -- NHK

The 77th NHK Asadora is Chiritotechin. Location includes Fukui prefecture. This renzoku is about Wada Kiyomi (referred to as Kiyomi-B), a girl brought up in Fukui who moves to Osaka in search of her soul. In Osaka, Kiyomi-B becomes enchanted with rakugo, a Japanese traditional form of comic storytelling, and pursues a career in rakugo. In the summer of 1982, Kiyomi-B and her family move to Obama of Fukui, her father's hometown. Kiyomi-B's grandmother and uncle welcome the family, but Shotaro the grandfather does not allow Masanori to take over the Wakasa lacquer chopsticks making. One day, Kiyomi-B listens to rakugo at Shotaro's factory and becomes fond of it. Shotaro and Kiyomi-B become close through rakugo.

故事女主人公的原型为至今仍被视作日本女演员的代名词，以“大坂之母”为人所熟知的女演员浪花千荣子。女主人公是出生于大坂南河内贫困人家的少女・竹井千代，因被道顿堀的表演吸引，而决定以成为女演员为目标，随后更与喜剧世界邂逅，并与喜剧世界的王子一同携手站上走过昭和战前、战中、战后动荡期的大坂舞台。她那有笑有泪、人情满溢、波兰跌宕的一生都将在剧中被仔细描绘。

Okuhara Natsu was born in Tokyo in 1937. In 1945, she loses both parents to war and becomes an orphan, but her father’s comrade, Shibata Takeo, takes her in and moves to Tokachi in Hokkaido. In an unfamiliar land surrounded by unfamiliar people, Natsu feels lost at first, but surrounded by Tokachi’s vast nature and its strong, yet compassionate people, she grows up to be a strong girl. When Natsu enters elementary school, she meets Yamada Tenyo who draws lovely pictures of horses. Tenyo tells her that in America, animation in which pictures move is becoming popular, Natsu’s curiosity is piqued. Upon graduating high school, Natsu goes to Tokyo to look up her brother, and takes a jump into the world of animation.

Rin Tachibana, nicknamed Hanekonma, grew up in Soma, Fukushima. Together with her parents, her sister and brother, and her grandparents, the story revolves around the Tachibana family and Rin's life throughout many years.

The 97th NHK asadora is about Ten who becomes the first female comedian.

The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her mother, who is a nurse. The first six-month Asadora. Average rating of 40.1%.

1901年，女性企業家白岡淺（波瑠 飾）在自己創立的「日出女子大學」的開學典禮上，以鼓勵女性求知為主題發表演講。

時間回溯至1861年的京都商家，這是今井家一個充滿好奇心的11歲少女的故事。自小生長在傳統家族中的阿淺，無法認同「女子無才便是德」及「指腹為婚」這種限制女性自由發展的陳舊觀念，父母親亦不允許女孩子唸書，還擅自決定婚事，連溫柔的姊姊阿初（宮崎葵 飾）也無法倖免。阿淺無力改變，苦惱的她將自己關在儲藏室裡。未來的結婚對象對這個將來要成為自己妻子的小女孩相當感興趣，送給她一個以梅樹製成的小算盤。此人即是白岡新次郎（玉木宏 飾）。新次郎鼓勵阿淺的一番話，自此改變阿淺的人生。原本對新次郎的散漫印象不佳的阿淺之母（寺島忍 飾），亦對新次郎的印象大大改觀。

時光流逝，四年後的1865年，可愛的小女孩已成為亭亭而立的15歲少女。雖然已經長大，但內心依然與從前那個充滿好奇心的小女孩一樣。個性男孩子氣的她，總是讓父母及家中的女侍傷透腦筋。但是阿淺周遭的人們仍不知道，這個天真無邪的少女，日後竟是掌管大企業並創設大學的著名企業家兼教育家…。