Masato Kawa, who has been a recluse for 15 years after being bullied in junior high school, lives in a depopulated small town. He decides to take up a challenge in order to take revenge on the person who changed his life. (Source: Natalie.mu, translated and adapted)

The story centers on the life of Kawata Yoshio, an eccentric judge. The popularity of the series seems to stem from both the good-natured wisdom of its hero, Judge Kawata, and the glimpse it offers of Japan's judicial system as it deals with current social issues ranging from divorce to substance abuse.

Searching for the lost island Atlantis.

Masako Tachibana is married to Toshio Akagi, an earnest and honest civil servant. However, one day after 22 years of marriage, Toshio took his own life at home... Toshio was in the middle of a case where government land was sold at an unfair price, and was ordered to falsify official documents to cover up the names of those involved. The story follows Masako as she confronts the government in an attempt to learn the truth about her husband's death.