Season 2 (2018)

One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey
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January 6, 2018 • 49m

Photographer Yoshikazu Shirakawa traveled the untouched corners of the world as part of a lifelong quest to rediscover the planet....Read more

Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea
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January 13, 2018 • 50m

Fusako Kunita is a 102-year-old Japanese woman who has lived on the Korean Peninsula for more than 70 years. Like many other Japan...Read more

Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan
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January 27, 2018 • 49m

The United States dominates the world in airpower. Behind the birth of the US Air Force is a little-known story about the deadly f...Read more

Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On
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February 3, 2018 • 49m

During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, an overwhelming number of people were slaughtered in ethnic conflicts between the Tutsi and Hutu...Read more

Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers
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February 24, 2018

72 years after the end of World War II, a group of about a dozen people visited Japan. They were born and raised in Vietnam yet co...Read more

The Fisherman and the Forest
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March 10, 2018 • 50m

On March 11, 2011, a huge tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake struck Japan's northeastern coast, including Kesenn...Read more

Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
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March 17, 2018 • 50m

Setsuko Thurlow was 13 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Horrific scenes of pain and destruction were burned into her...Read more

Tsuruko's Tea Journey
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March 31, 2018 • 50m

In one form of the Japanese tea ceremony, the host serves traditional kaiseki cuisine, sake and finally tea to the guests. The rit...Read more

The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1
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April 14, 2018 • 49m

Going quicker, farther, and striving for more. Since when have we been living in this kind of world? We can't do without it. We ca...Read more

The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2
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April 21, 2018 • 49m

In the second half of our 2018 special look at capitalism, we delve into the source of humans' greed, the driving force behind cap...Read more

Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder
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June 2, 2018 • 26m

In August 2007, 31-year-old Rie Isogai was brutally killed by 3 men who met online, in a case called the Underground Website Murde...Read more

Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident
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June 9, 2018 • 25m

In 1998, four innocent people lost their lives when arsenic was mixed into curry served at a summer festival, in what is known as ...Read more

Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed
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June 23, 2018 • 49m

August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic bombing. Yet some trees survived, brought back life and gave people hope. NY...Read more

I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan
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June 30, 2018

Japan is a psychiatric hospital superpower. About 20% of all the psychiatric hospital beds in the world are concentrated in Japan,...Read more

Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan
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July 14, 2018 • 49m

"Shoe Dog", the memoir by Nike founder Phil Knight, has been an unexpected hit in Japan. It candidly talks about how more than 40 ...Read more

A Life with Flowers
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July 28, 2018 • 50m

There is a 15-hectare flower park on the island of Nokonoshima, 2km offshore in Hakata Bay in southwestern Japan. The park was cre...Read more

Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe
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August 11, 2018 • 50m

Nearly 70 years ago, an American named Floyd Schmoe arrived in the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima on a mission of peace. Over 5 y...Read more

Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods
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August 18, 2018 • 43m

Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest peak in western Japan, has been venerated by local residents for centuries. A sea of clouds often envel...Read more

Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors
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September 22, 2018 • 49m

American writer Susan Southard's Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War has garnered wide acclaim. The book project developed from the a...Read more

A World of Boisterous Silence
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September 29, 2018 • 50m

Children who cannot hear learn through sign language at Meisei Gakuen, a school in Tokyo. Their small hands weave together many wo...Read more

Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market
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October 13, 2018 • 50m

Behind the big city glamour of Shen Zhen, China, lie its back alleys, stretching out from the job allocation office of the San He ...Read more

China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1
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October 20, 2018 • 49m

Beijing is staging the largest-ever relocation policy by moving entire remote villages to suburbs near cities to solve poverty. Ma...Read more

China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2
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October 27, 2018 • 49m

Beijing is staging the largest-ever relocation policy by moving entire remote villages to suburbs near cities to solve poverty. Ma...Read more

An 18-Year-Old's Departure
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November 17, 2018 • 47m

7 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, actress Alice Hirose visits Otsuchi Town in Iwate Prefecture. She meets a father an...Read more

The Pianist in the Rubble
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November 24, 2018 • 49m

Aeham Ahmad was born and raised in Syria. Even during the civil war, he never stopped playing the piano and singing. Sharing his m...Read more

Manzanar Revealed
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December 29, 2018 • 49m

120,000 Japanese Americans, born free and equal, were stripped of their basic human rights and imprisoned during WWII without any ...Read more