Junko Sakuraba

Junko Sakuraba teaches during the evenings at an English language conversation school. Since Junko has passed through her early twenties without having settled down with a man, her grandmother has started to set her up on dates with potential marriage partners through a somewhat formalized process known as miai. To appease her grandmother, Junko spends her 27th birthday out on a miai date with a Buddhist monk named Takane Hoshikawa.

(Source: Contemporary Japanese Literature)