29. A Budding Forestry Career

Chihiro Tada is the only woman in a forestry training program in Niyodogawa, but the 25-year-old is firmly resolved to follow in her father's footsteps. Tada's father was the third-generation president of the family's forestry company, but he closed the 80-year-old firm in 2016 because there was no one to succeed him. Driven by the desire to rebuild the family business and one day fell trees together with her father, Tada moved out on her own to start a forestry training program in Kochi Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Can she overcome the challenges awaiting her in this unfamiliar industry?