A Hero of Tokyo

The story focuses on the widower Nemoto ostensibly a businessman who has one son Kanichi the hero of the title Nemoto remarries his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own However Nemotos business turns out to be out a shady scam and he disappears leaving his wife to raise the three children alone In order to support the family she is obliged to become a bar hostess She conceals this shameful employment from the children but the truth comes out years later after her daughter is rejected by her husbands family when they investigate her background