Season 7 (2023)

Where Will Divided America Go from Here? US Midterm Elections 2022
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January 21, 2023 • 49m

The midterms are said to predict the next presidential election. Support for President Biden and the Democratic Party is starting ...Read more

The Red Way: The Making of a Third Term
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February 4, 2023 • 49m

The Communist Party of China rules the country's 1.4 billion people. At its 20th National Congress, held in October 2022, Xi Jinpi...Read more

A Voice to the Voiceless
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February 11, 2023 • 49m

Okinawa Prefecture is home to US military bases, and cases in which American servicemen abandon local women and leave them to rais...Read more

Why I'm at War
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February 25, 2023 • 50m

Volodymyr Demchenko has been deeply involved in the defense of his Ukrainian homeland in the years since the street protests of th...Read more

End-of-Life Guardians
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March 5, 2023 • 50m

Bunpuku is a dog like no other who lives in a nursing home for the elderly in Kanagawa Prefecture. Whenever an elderly resident is...Read more

Raising a Family on Cat Island
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March 18, 2023 • 49m

Fukashima is a small island in the southwest of Japan that had a prosperous fishing industry until the early 20th century. But the...Read more

Blues from the Obscure
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March 18, 2023 • 50m

There are artists devoted to creation, not for others, not even for themselves, but only for the sake of creating. This film looks...Read more

Steve Jobs and Japan
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March 25, 2023 • 48m

Steve Jobs was a titan of tech. He masterminded the iMac and iPhone, and changed the world. He had a deep love of Japanese culture...Read more

TOKYO SCANNING
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March 25, 2023 • 49m

Tokyo is famous for its wholly original street styles—launching various fashion "tribes" and "kawaii culture." Takano Kumiko, edit...Read more

Taiwan's Windy Frontline Islands
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March 26, 2023 • 49m

Located just off the coast of China, the islands of Kinmen and Matsu are rich in history and culture. Long exposed to strong winds...Read more

Voices of Tohoku: What We Want From Reconstruction
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April 22, 2023 • 50m

Just eight days after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, an NHK program began recording the messages of survivors. The program ...Read more

A Director's War: Fighting for Ukraine from Japan
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April 22, 2023 • 49m

Kateryna Novytska is a Ukrainian caught between two worlds. Russia's relentless attacks threaten the lives of her family and frien...Read more

Return to an Abandoned Village: 50 Years in Tsubayama
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April 29, 2023 • 49m

A family and a village, documented over the course of five decades. Tsubayama in Kochi Prefecture, a steep mountainside village, i...Read more

ISSEY MIYAKE: The Human Inside the Clothes
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May 27, 2023 • 50m

Issey Miyake, the world-renowned clothing designer, died in 2022 at the age of 84. As a child, he lived through the dropping of an...Read more

Prayers of a Thousand Years
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June 3, 2023 • 49m

Dazaifu Tenmangu enshrines Sugawara Michizane, the deity of learning, culture and the arts. Exiled from the capital in the 9th cen...Read more

Women on the Front Line: 15% of Japan's Politicians
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June 10, 2023 • 49m

Japan's local elections in April featured a record number of female candidates. Ranked 116th out of 146 countries in the Global Ge...Read more

The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 2
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June 17, 2023 • 49m

Mayuyama Koji is thought by afficionados of fine Japanese ceramics to have "hands of god" able to restore the finest vintage piece...Read more

Ukraine's Nuclear Dilemma
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August 5, 2023 • 50m

In 1994, Ukraine's leaders gave up a formidable nuclear arsenal. But the country is now mired in war. We follow one young man who ...Read more

Staging Shared Memories —Yu Miri and Young Fukushima Actors—
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September 9, 2023 • 49m

In 2015, novelist and playwright Yu Miri moved to Minamisoma City in Fukushima Prefecture and opened a book café and a small theat...Read more

On the Frontlines of Myanmar's Civil War
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September 23, 2023 • 49m

Two and a half years since Myanmar's coup d'état, its military maintains control of the government. Armed groups continue their lo...Read more

Walking a Tightrope: The Filmmaker Yang Yonghi
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October 21, 2023 • 50m

Filmmaker Yang Yonghi is a second-generation Korean resident of Japan. Her internationally acclaimed films have focused on her fam...Read more

The Day I Gave Up My Daughter
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November 11, 2023 • 49m

China enforced the One-Child Policy for 36 years from 1979 to 2015 in order to combat overpopulation. In it, any family having mor...Read more

Piano Girl
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December 9, 2023 • 50m

Okinawa, Japan. Momoko loved the piano and attended a school that had one. Then the war arrived and she was drafted to work in an ...Read more

The Falconer's Legacy
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December 16, 2023 • 50m

Matsubara Hidetoshi, one of Japan's last traditional falconers, resides in rural Tohoku with only the company of his birds. A sudd...Read more

Finding My Mirror
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December 23, 2023 • 50m

Inmates at a prison in Japan record themselves reading picture books as a way to reconnect with their children. In the process, th...Read more