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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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