Japanese stories do not always have a happy end.
And here I must tell you a little Japanese story.
Some stories of ancient India were influential in shaping Japanese stories by providing them with materials.
Like the previous game, it is based on Japanese story.
And that's as good as it gets, in this very Japanese story.
Her paintings depict animals mainly fox, which is a frequent character in classical Japanese stories.
Each episode (or set of episodes) retells using animation a popular modern Japanese story from the past 100 years or so.
They looked back, in part, to the two early-20th-century Japanese short stories from which the screenplay had been adapted.
Her eighty-year old grandmother told her Japanese stories when she was growing up.
"The Japanese story is 80 percent product and 20 percent currency," he said.