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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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