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00:00Today, November 8th, is the day of Iiha.
00:04So, let's go to the factory of Iiha.
00:11She is the 4th female president to protect the tradition.
00:15What a tragedy that she was attacked in a month.
00:21Every day is the anniversary.
00:24Anniversary Detective Club.
00:27This is a Japanese confectionery that is over 75 years old.
00:32There is a tool to make it more delicious.
00:36So, let's go to the factory.
00:38What is this?
00:41This is a toothpick factory.
00:46I am the representative of this company.
00:50Are you the president?
00:51Yes, I am.
00:52I am the 4th female president.
00:54I am the 4th female president.
00:56There are only two companies in this industry.
01:00This is a company that makes domestic toothpicks.
01:05In fact, Kawachi-Nagano was the largest toothpick producer in Japan in the 1980s.
01:09It had more than 90% of the domestic market share.
01:17However, since the importation of Chinese toothpicks in the 1990s, the number of toothpicks has declined.
01:24Ms. Suenobu is the 4th female president.
01:27She is still protecting the tradition of domestic toothpicks.
01:36You can make it like this.
01:38I am making a groove here.
01:40This is a groove.
01:42In this factory, Hokkaido's white birch is cut to about 6 cm.
01:49And this machine makes a groove in the palm of your hand to sharpen the tip.
01:56It's coming out from here.
02:00There are a lot of toothpicks.
02:03It's burning.
02:05There are a lot of toothpicks.
02:07It's burning.
02:09How many toothpicks are there?
02:11There are about 90,000 toothpicks in this factory.
02:16This is a lot of toothpicks.
02:19This time, she will make a toothpick to eat Japanese sweets.
02:24It's called a black-lettered toothpick.
02:26It's made of a tree called a black-lettered toothpick.
02:29Is it the name of a tree?
02:30Yes, it's the name of a tree.
02:31It's called a black-lettered toothpick.
02:32When it's freshly sharpened, it smells very good.
02:35You can eat it with an elegant feeling.
02:39What is this?
02:40This is a black-lettered toothpick.
02:42It's thinner than I thought.
02:43That's right. It's thinner than I thought.
02:45I go to the mountains to get it.
02:48Do you go to the mountains?
02:49Yes.
02:50This way.
02:51This way?
02:52I go this way.
02:54It's deep in the mountains, isn't it?
02:56That's right.
02:57But there is a well-maintained hiking trail.
03:00Is that so?
03:01Yes, it's okay.
03:04Is this the right way?
03:06Is this the well-maintained trail?
03:08It's very dangerous here.
03:10It's very dangerous.
03:11Mr. Suenobu, the president of the company,
03:13collects materials from the mountains himself and makes each one.
03:17It's a black-lettered toothpick.
03:19It's a high-class toothpick, but it's so popular that it can be ordered from overseas.
03:27Why did you decide to follow me?
03:30My grandfather established a company.
03:33My parents were teachers, so they were busy.
03:38I was entrusted to my grandfather's house.
03:43I helped him and played with him.
03:46I've been doing this since I was a kid.
03:49I grew up getting used to it.
03:55Mr. Suenobu, after graduating from high school,
03:58decided to work as a nurse, not in the water supply industry.
04:03At that time, there was no successor,
04:07so there was talk of closing the company.
04:10I really didn't want to close the company.
04:14That's how I became a successor.
04:20Ten years ago, at the age of 35,
04:23she joined the water supply industry as a successor.
04:26But...
04:28Three years ago, I became the president of the company.
04:34About a month later, the company went bankrupt.
04:38What?
04:39Yes.
04:40That's terrible.
04:41The tragedy of the fourth female president.
04:44What is the revival from there?
04:51Mr. Suenobu, the fourth generation of the domestic toothpick factory.
04:55What is the tragedy of the fourth female president?
04:59Three years ago, I became the president of the company.
05:05About a month later, the company went bankrupt.
05:09What?
05:10Yes.
05:11That's terrible.
05:12The place where the gravel was.
05:14The place where we talked at first, right?
05:17Yes, that's right.
05:20The cause was the loss of the rice paddies.
05:23The factory remained unburned,
05:26but it was a tragedy that happened in a month from the president's inauguration.
05:31Wow!
05:36You even have a text.
05:38That's right. It's the first time I've added a text.
05:40It's the first time I've edited it.
05:43Wow, it's a fire.
05:45It's a fire.
05:49This is difficult.
05:53Wow.
06:00This is a disaster.
06:03Wow!
06:06This is the place where we talked at first, right?
06:10Yes, that's right.
06:11Right?
06:12This is a disaster.
06:17Wow.
06:18You're laughing.
06:19I have no choice but to laugh.
06:22This is where the rice paddies will be planted.
06:24Yes.
06:25The rice paddies were planted just before the New Year,
06:28before the rice paddies were distributed to the farmers.
06:31Some of the rice paddies were already planted,
06:33but all of them went bad.
06:35Yes.
06:38Wow, you're cleaning up.
06:40No.
06:43It's a funny story now.
06:46No, we can't laugh.
06:49What if the factory was on fire?
06:53I don't think they would do it.
06:55What?
06:56We don't even have a machine to make rice paddies.
07:01We maintain machines from 40 to 50 years ago ourselves.
07:07This machine, which will never be available again,
07:10is the heart of the rice paddy industry.
07:13If the rice paddies were on fire,
07:16what would you do?
07:21To be honest,
07:23didn't you think you would give up the rice paddies
07:26if you saw this in front of you?
07:28No, not at all.
07:32When I was cleaning up the fire,
07:35I took a picture with my grandfather.
07:38What?
07:39Yes.
07:40You didn't remember?
07:41I took this picture when I was 3 or 4 years old.
07:46And you saw the sign, right?
07:48Yes.
07:49My grandfather drew that sign.
07:51He drew it by hand?
07:52Yes.
07:53It was in the back of the car that was on fire,
07:56but it was safe.
07:58I thought he was telling me to do my best
08:01if it wasn't on fire.
08:05It's a miracle.
08:06It's a miracle.
08:07Maybe it's fate.
08:08It's fate.
08:09I still have the picture and the sign.
08:12I still have the picture and the sign.
08:15After that, he collected the money for the reconstruction
08:17through crowdfunding
08:19and collected about four times the amount he had planned.
08:24While the sales were declining due to COVID-19,
08:26he developed a stick to push a button
08:29using toothpicks and made it a big hit.
08:34He overcame the crisis of the company
08:36with the help of a friend.
08:40The black letters are scattered around here.
08:44To find the black letters,
08:45we arrived at the area where Mr. Suenobu found before.
08:50What's the feature?
08:52It smells good.
08:55I have to smell it.
08:56According to one theory,
08:58the trunk is green and has a black pattern.
09:02It looks like a black letter written in ink.
09:09It's in the trunk, right?
09:11Yes, it's in the trunk.
09:13Isn't it?
09:14The green tree has a black pattern.
09:18It looks like it was drawn with a brush,
09:20so it's called a black letter.
09:22I said that.
09:26It may not be used.
09:28That's not fair.
09:30It's a life-threatening situation.
09:33You'll fall into hell.
09:36I was told so many things.
09:40Mr. Minagawa,
09:41if you don't want to fall into hell,
09:43let's look for it seriously.
09:47It takes 15 minutes to find more.
09:50It's a little thin around here,
09:52but it's in the trunk.
09:53Really?
09:54This one.
09:55This one?
09:57It's surprisingly small.
09:59We finally found it.
10:01This is a black-letter tree.
10:05This is the scent.
10:08Wow.
10:10It smells really good.
10:14It smells like herbs.
10:16It's said to be a Japanese herb.
10:20The green trunk has a black pattern,
10:23so it must be a black letter.
10:27To make a black-letter tree,
10:29he has to use a thin string.
10:31It's even more difficult.
10:33It's hell.
10:37You can't tell unless it smells.
10:41These are all the same trees.
10:43No, they're not.
10:44They're different.
10:46I thought they were black letters.
10:48Black-letter trees are grown on stumps.
10:51Stumps?
10:52Yes.
10:53Not just one,
10:54but they grow from the sides, too.
10:57But this one is different.
10:58It's similar.
10:59The shape of the leaves are similar.
11:02It's hard to find a thick black-letter tree.
11:06Isn't this a white-letter tree?
11:08There's a name for a white-letter tree.
11:10There is.
11:12There's also a name for a blue-letter tree.
11:14There are a lot of them.
11:15Yes.
11:16But they're thin.
11:18They're all letters.
11:25No matter how hard you look,
11:27you can only find thin black-letter trees
11:29and thin navy-letter trees.
11:35I can't tell from the right.
11:37Do you think there is one?
11:39I think this is it.
11:41You found one from such a place.
11:44This is big.
11:45This is really big.
11:47This is good.
11:48Yay!
11:51Finally, they found a thick black-letter tree.
11:56I'm going to fall.
11:57They cut it from the root with a saw.
12:00It's heavy.
12:02It's heavy.
12:03It's dangerous.
12:05Wow.
12:06It's amazing.
12:07It came all the way here.
12:08It smells really good.
12:09It's heavier than before.
12:10Right?
12:11It's because they cut a big part.
12:13Wow.
12:14It's like a pinocchio.
12:16It's like a pinocchio.
12:18It's easy to bring it home.
12:20They cut it to a size that's easy to bring home.
12:23This much?
12:24This much is fine.
12:25This much is fine.
12:26I got it.
12:28Do I have to show it to the camera?
12:31Hey.
12:32Who are you going to show it to?
12:35You're hiding it too much.
12:36Please think about the angle.
12:37The angle.
12:39If you look at the camera and cut it,
12:43The harvest of the black star tree, which is the material of the paper, is complete.
12:49I'm back.
12:51I'm going to cut the one I got to 9 cm.
12:559 cm?
12:56With this round saw.
12:58With this round saw.
12:59Wow.
13:00With the tools my brother made.
13:03Wow.
13:04It's scary.
13:05It's a saw.
13:08If you hit it here, it will be 9 cm.
13:11It depends on the size.
13:14It's scary.
13:20Hey.
13:21I got it.
13:22Are you okay?
13:23I'm okay.
13:30It's quite powerful.
13:33Don't you want to do it?
13:35It's okay.
13:36Let's do it together.
13:37I see.
13:39I'll be happy.
13:41After cutting it to 9 cm.
13:44I'm going to split this into four.
13:48Split?
13:49It's the process of splitting.
13:50Like this?
13:51Like this?
13:54It's like pushing.
13:58Wow.
14:04Next, I'm going to cut the bottom and the side to make a board shape.
14:09Wow.
14:10It's amazing.
14:11It's almost done.
14:12Look.
14:13Wow.
14:14It's almost done.
14:17Right?
14:19Finally, I'm going to cut it into this shape with my hands.
14:23First, Minagawa-san is going to try.
14:27I'm going to cut the top first.
14:30I think it's good to do it many times like this.
14:35Can you see it?
14:36Like this.
14:39Good.
14:40It's good, isn't it?
14:42It's good.
14:44I'm going to cut the left and the right.
14:45Okay.
14:56It looks like a Shinkansen.
14:59It looks like a Shinkansen.
15:01For some reason, he was making a black-letter Yoji.
15:06Well, he didn't have the desire to succeed, so it's okay.
15:11On the other hand, Hajiri-san has a desire to succeed even if he doesn't laugh.
15:17But it's in the shape of a Yoji.
15:21It's good, isn't it?
15:26It's done.
15:27It's beautiful.
15:29It's good, isn't it?
15:31But it's sharp as a knife.
15:35He made it sharp as a small sword, but it's a black-letter Yoji.
15:43Finally, he's going to eat the best Japanese sweets with the best Yoji.
15:48It's different from a normal Yoji.
15:49It's different from a normal Yoji.
15:53Let's eat Japanese sweets with the best Yoji and the best situation.
16:00What is this?
16:02For comparison, he's going to eat it with a plastic fork.
16:07Let's eat.
16:08Let's eat.
16:15I can't get enough of the texture of seasonal chestnuts.
16:18The original sweetness of chestnuts is soaked in it.
16:21It's delicious.
16:22It's anko, so it's not bitter.
16:25It's delicious enough, but...
16:28I'm going to eat this one.
16:30It has a unique shape.
16:32It's a strange shape.
16:40The scent spreads around here.
16:45It's completely different from a normal Yoji.
16:49I feel like I'm eating in an elegant space.
16:55It's just a dessert.
16:56It turns into an elegant Yoji.
16:58I want people to keep this tradition.
17:01Do you have any goals for the future?
17:03It's a matter of posterity.
17:06I joined the club because of my posterity, but I don't have any posterity.
17:11My dream is to make it a profession that local children want to do in the future.
17:21If I quit, I'll be done with it.
17:31What did you say?
17:32It's the fifth generation.
17:35I'm counting on you from tomorrow.
17:37Thank you, predecessor.
17:41This is the end.
17:43Thank you for your time.
17:46It's the fifth generation.
17:48You have to break the shadow.
17:51How was it, Nazrin?
17:54You said you'd do your best, but it was really hard to have a place to remember with your grandfather.
18:01I was really impressed with the pictures and the views from there.
18:05He's always positive and positive.
18:10He's got the power to keep doing new things.
18:12How was it, Fujiwara-san?
18:14I thought he was a really strong person.
18:17I'm sure you've come up with that kind of idea.
18:21You know a lot about TV.
18:24I want you to do a lot of filming together in the future.
18:27He's been in a lot of interviews.
18:28The first thing I was afraid of was being called a thin blur.
18:33A thin blur is better than a weak blur.
18:36It's hard to blur.
18:37I thought I'd be careful if I blew it.
18:41I'm sure this VTR has touched everyone's hearts.
18:45You can watch it again on TVer from 5 p.m. tomorrow.
18:47You can watch Daisharin until 4.59 p.m.
18:50Please watch it later.
18:51Thank you for today.