Season 5 (2016)

A Hiroshima Family's Prayer
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February 27, 2016 • 30m

In Hiroshima 70 years after the atomic bomb, many survivors' belongings have been inherited: items they wore the day of the bomb, ...Read more

For the Sake of the Classmates We Lost
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March 26, 2016 • 30m

Hashikami Junior High School's class of 2011 graduated just after the devastating 3.11 earthquake and tsunami, in a school gym hou...Read more

Young Thunder: School Taiko Team
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April 13, 2016 • 30m

The All Japan High School Cultural Festival is like a national arts championship. We follow the efforts of Osaka's Akutagawa High ...Read more

Pearl Wedding: 30 Years' Worth of Thanks
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May 29, 2016 • 50m

Nestled in Ise-Shima, a scenic coastal area of central Japan, is Toba, a city famous for its cultured pearls. Here on the 30th of ...Read more

Back to Grandma's Land: Chiemi's Story
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June 26, 2016 • 50m

Recently in Japan, more and more young people who were raised in the city are choosing to go back to the land as they relocate to ...Read more

A Life of Service: The Station Barber of Obama
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July 31, 2016 • 50m

On the JR Obama Line, a local railway that links Fukui Prefecture with Kyoto, stands Kato Station. Although unstaffed since 1973, ...Read more

One of Us
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August 28, 2016 • 50m

The idyllic landscape of Murayama in Yamagata Prefecture is home to a rather unique family-run farm that welcomes visitors from al...Read more

One Big Happy Family
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September 11, 2016 • 50m

Elderly people in need of care lost their homes in the 2011 Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and tsunami. At a care facility called ...Read more

Uniting the People of the Sea: Kumejima, Okinawa
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October 30, 2016 • 50m

Uminchu, literally "people of the sea", is the name for the fishermen of beautiful Kumejima in Okinawa Prefecture. Filled with cor...Read more

Hang in There!
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November 27, 2016 • 50m

A community deep in the mountains of Gunma Prefecture is home to Japan's only circus school. The school's director is Nadezhda Tys...Read more

Finding Yourself on the Open Road
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December 25, 2016 • 50m

In the city of Sapporo stands a barber shop where many young bicyclists pedaling their way across Japan's northern island of Hokka...Read more