April 2, 2015 • 28m
The number of foreign tourists to Japan reached its all-time high in 2014. Tourism is now Japan's key to economic growth. Kentaro ...Read more
April 16, 2015 • 28m
Hyogo Prefecture is home to a medical team that rides the helicopter to save lives in mountain communities that do not have access...Read more
May 14, 2015 • 28m
With exhibitions and events both in Japan and abroad, the moving calligraphy of Shoko Kanazawa is attracting global attention that...Read more
May 28, 2015 • 28m
For 5 generations, the family of Kosuke Kuji has run Nanbu Bijin, a famed sake brewery in Iwate Prefecture. Yet, as domestic sake ...Read more
June 11, 2015 • 28m
Agriculture in Japan faces many issues including an aging and declining workforce. Hiroki Iwasa, the representative of a farming c...Read more
June 25, 2015 • 28m
Mitsuru Izumo is the CEO of bio-venture firm Euglena, named after a microorganism with enormous potential as a future food and ene...Read more
July 23, 2015 • 28m
What kind of life awaits Japan's estimated 10 million baby boomers as more and more of them enter retirement? Mio Katagiri is the ...Read more
August 20, 2015 • 28m
Medical tests at just 500 yen per criterion; on-the-spot results; and advice from a trained nurse: all features of the "self healt...Read more
September 3, 2015 • 28m
With many traditional Japanese crafts facing decline, Rika Yajima founded a brand seeking to preserve such artisanship in a novel ...Read more
September 17, 2015 • 28m
Japan's unique yuru-kyara costumed promotional mascots are in the midst of a boom. And the maker behind many of the movement's big...Read more
October 1, 2015 • 28m
Although Japan's long-established fresh fish industry is said to be worth around 3 trillion yen a year, a lack of new blood has re...Read more
October 15, 2015 • 28m
akako Yamada runs an online English school based in the Philippines. Licensed local instructors teach students in Japan via videot...Read more
October 29, 2015 • 28m
Becoming a sushi chef once took long years as an apprentice. Makoto Fukue turned this world on its head in 2002 when he opened Tok...Read more
November 12, 2015 • 28m
The 1989 Hollywood hit Back to the Future Part II, saw a time-travelling DeLorean return from the year 2015, fitted with a device ...Read more
November 26, 2015 • 28m
Recent years have seen Japan's fisheries hit by issues like global warming, overfishing, and a lack of new blood, with overall cat...Read more