January 11, 2018 • 28m
Miyazaki Prefecture's satsumaimo, or sweet potatoes, are selling fast in other parts of Asia thanks to Makoto Ikeda, the CEO of Ku...Read more
February 15, 2018 • 28m
Up to the 1990's, Japan's home electronics giants led the global market. But recently, unwilling to implement key reforms, they ha...Read more
February 22, 2018 • 28m
Kyoto is a long-established center of craft excellence. Hiroyasu Koma's 30-person start-up firm brought that power together to mak...Read more
March 8, 2018 • 28m
Along Japan's northeastern coast, efforts to develop young fisheries workers by boosting recognition for local marine produce and ...Read more
March 22, 2018 • 28m
Keiichi Yoshino left a career in finance to open a chocolatier in Kyoto, Japan's former capital. Only 4 years in, his brand has al...Read more
April 5, 2018 • 28m
Atsushi Yoshida runs a 70-year-old firm specializing in high-voltage lightning arresters. Its devices, produced via research at th...Read more
April 19, 2018 • 28m
The last decade has been tough for cattle breeders in Japan. Four-tenths of farms have folded, and the experience needed to succee...Read more
May 10, 2018 • 28m
The key to gold medal success at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games may just be held by Toru Ozawa, engineer with a specialist wheelc...Read more
May 24, 2018 • 28m
Across Japan, a decline in public transport and small retailers is said to have left as many as 7 million seniors unable to access...Read more
June 14, 2018 • 28m
With many up-and-coming nations undergoing rapid development, Japanese construction equipment is finding new popularity around the...Read more
July 19, 2018 • 28m
Around the world, one sector relatively untouched by the IT-driven paradigm shift known as the sharing economy has been dining and...Read more
July 26, 2018 • 28m
In January 2018, at the Global EdTech Startup Awards in London, a Japanese firm came through a field of over 2,000 to claim the to...Read more
August 9, 2018 • 28m
With 80% of Japan's regional bus routes operating at a loss, Masaru Yajima runs a firm working to revive these vital transport lif...Read more
September 13, 2018 • 28m
Virtual reality: currently a hot technology in the world of video gaming, and now also on the brink of transforming the medical fi...Read more
October 11, 2018 • 28m
A trunk room is rented storage for items you don't often use but just can't throw away. But it's not always easy to keep track of ...Read more
October 25, 2018 • 28m
Long beset by depopulation and industrial decline, these days the town of Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture, northern Japan, boasts a ...Read more
November 8, 2018 • 28m
Forced by a shrinking domestic market to venture overseas, Japan's sake brewers face stiff competition from the established domina...Read more
November 22, 2018 • 28m
For more than 60 years, we have been sending satellites and rockets into space. But this progress has polluted Earth's orbit with ...Read more
December 20, 2018 • 28m
In Tokyo's upscale Ginza district is a rice ball shop so popular that lines of hungry office workers are a regular lunchtime sight...Read more
December 27, 2018 • 28m
Woven rush tatami mats are a traditional element of Japanese homes. But a shift toward Westernized lifestyles has seen production ...Read more