an agency sends over an experienced students like miku, and that the two can only guess what a salt shaker looks like and only guess at how a peppermill works, but they want to learn something. they want to know what it is like in the home of a working mother. many japanese are without role models. >> i used to think that when something big happens in life, marriage or a child, then you have to quit working, but now i see you can continue working. >> i want to play with my mom. i can hardly remember her ever playing with me. >> he would like to play with dead, too, but dad is far away in moscow. a son who misses his father and a father who misses his daughter. yurika died of cancer, but it was she who turned her father into a good father, as he says himself. >> through yurika i became a dad. until then, i only new work. i never stood in the kitchen or helped around the house. we ate out a lot. i did not start cooking until after she was born and it tasted good. >> that is why he now gives a cooking course for fathers before they can forget they have families. it is a sort of first aid for