Meet a figure from the past who shared your worries
Find the life of a Japanese historical figure who struggled with something like what you face now. Read stories of Hideyo Noguchi, Date Masamune, Higuchi Ichiyo and more.
Worry categories
- School & study
- Friends & people
- Family
- Love & marriage
- Money
- Body, mind & disability
- Failure & setbacks
- Career & work
- Loneliness & being misunderstood
- Loss & grief
- Confidence & self
- Abroad & outsider
Life stories
- Date Masamune — The Man Who Played Tough to the End
- Dazai Osamu — The Man Who Pretended to Talk in His Sleep
- Fukuzawa Yukichi — The Man Who Pretended to Be Fine
- Higuchi Ichiyo — The Woman Who Said the Roadside Was Fine
- Hiraga Gennai — The Man Who Would Not Be a Retainer
- Hirooka Asako — The Woman Who Never Leaned on Anyone
- Hitomi Kinue — Aloof? I Never Could Be
- Ishikawa Takuboku — The Honest Liar
- Kano Jigoro — The Man Who Never Said "I'm Tired"
- Kitasato Shibasaburo — The Man Who Wouldn't Listen
- Koizumi Setsu — The Storyteller Who Never Gave Her Name
- Kukai (Kobo Daishi) — The Man Who Won Too Well with Words
- Makino Tomitaro — The Man Who Spared Nothing
- Masaoka Shiki — The Greedy Invalid
- Miyamoto Musashi — The Master Who Never Met His Time
- Mori Ogai — The Man Who Wanted to Be Taken Seriously
- Murasaki Shikibu — The Woman Who Wouldn't Write Even "One"
- Nakahama Manjiro — The Man Who Became Japanese with Chopsticks
- Nakahara Chuya — The Man He Could Not Hate
- Ninomiya Sontoku — The Man Who Won It Back and Let It Go
- Noguchi Hideyo — The Man Who Could Never Pay It Back
- Ogino Ginko — The Woman Who Opened the Door and Walked Out
- Okuma Shigenobu — The Man Who Said He Didn't Mind Losing It
- Sakamoto Ryoma — The Man Who Wrote That He Could Not Die
- Takamura Chieko — The Woman Who Could Not Show Her Work
- Tsuda Umeko — Her Own Country's Language
- Yanagiwara Byakuren — The Woman Who Lied All the Time