April 15, 2014 • 25m
In Japan's Saitama Prefecture near Tokyo, a patient died after being turned away by a number of hospital Emergency Rooms. Other pa...Read more
April 22, 2014 • 25m
Got a PC or a smartphone? Media-sharing sites will let you stream live and interactively. It could be called "self-casting" and it...Read more
May 6, 2014 • 25m
The Shonan coastal region in Japan conjures up images of summertime, youth culture, fashion. We cast an offbeat video eye on an ob...Read more
May 13, 2014 • 25m
When summer comes, people from all over Japan flock to Mt. Fuji. After the mountain was designated a World Heritage Site in 2013, ...Read more
May 20, 2014 • 25m
The Airin District, Osaka. Here live thousands of male day laborers, many of whom spend their nights in rooms so small they have n...Read more
June 3, 2014 • 25m
The Yanaka Cemetery is one of Tokyo's oldest cemeteries. The greatest number of visitors come during the Obon holiday in the summe...Read more
June 10, 2014 • 25m
24-hour gyms are quickly gaining in popularity. Relatively inexpensive and open all hours, they're well-suited to busy modern life...Read more
June 17, 2014 • 25m
With the ubiquity of digital cameras and smart phones, we live in an age of easy photographs. It's easy to print them out, too, us...Read more
July 1, 2014 • 25m
Outside Yokohama's main rail station is a 6-floor game center. New games come out all the time, but an old standby is a cash cow: ...Read more
July 8, 2014 • 25m
Osaka Station: a major transportation hub for Western Japan. One popular service catering to travelers there is a Ladies Powder Ro...Read more
July 15, 2014 • 25m
For people with time, car ferries are an inexpensive mode of travel in Japan, which is surrounded by water. Each year, about 200,0...Read more
July 22, 2014 • 25m
The Tokyo SKYTREE opened in 2012 as Japan's tallest structure. Each day 100,000 people flock here to try to take photos of the gia...Read more
August 5, 2014 • 25m
Nothing but sand, as far as the eye can see. The Tottori Sand Dunes on the Sea of Japan are a vast world of nothingness. 2 million...Read more
August 12, 2014 • 25m
A giant discount store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, has 40,000 items for sale. It pulls in customers around the clock. This episode shoots ...Read more
August 19, 2014 • 25m
It occupies an entire floor of a large building in Shinjuku, a bustling district in Tokyo. An enormous travel agency, visited dail...Read more
September 2, 2014 • 25m
An unusually large number of passengers gather at a train station in Tokyo. They're taking a special night train to Izumo, a thous...Read more
September 9, 2014 • 25m
More and more these days, people communicate via texting, social media and email. Yet there are some who rush into the Shinjuku Po...Read more
September 16, 2014 • 25m
Over 80% of Japanese college grads landed jobs last spring, the main hiring season. However, in Shibuya, an area of Tokyo known fo...Read more
September 23, 2014 • 25m
Uguisudani is one of the least-frequented stops on Tokyo's Yamanote mass-transit loop line. But it's well known for its nightlife....Read more
October 7, 2014 • 25m
Crammed together are magazines and novels, art books and technical treatises. In an era of increasing Internet book sales, streams...Read more
October 14, 2014 • 25m
Recently, all across Japan, there has been a sharp rise in the number of people turning to self-service storage to keep things the...Read more
October 21, 2014 • 25m
When people die, they go "to the mountain". So holds the folklore in the Tohoku (northeastern) region of Japan, referring to Mt.Os...Read more
November 4, 2014 • 25m
As the recession continues to hit Hokkaido, Japan, a small pro wrestling group fights an uphill battle to energize the prefecture....Read more
November 11, 2014 • 25m
Akune city is located in rural Kagoshima Prefecture. More than 40% of its population is over 65 years old. Its famous 24/7 superma...Read more
November 18, 2014 • 25m
It's a June weekend, and the rainy season in Japan's central Kanto region is being inaugurated with an apparently endless deluge. ...Read more
December 2, 2014 • 25m
In 2013, one of Japan's largest "sharehouse" or shared-living apartment houses, opened in Tokyo. It can accommodate 260 people. Op...Read more
December 9, 2014 • 25m
In Shibuya, Tokyo, there's an animal hospital taking emergency cases 24/7. It was founded 46 years ago. Doting pet owners from all...Read more
December 16, 2014 • 25m
Within 20km of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - site of the 2011 nuclear disaster - is the town of Naraha. The train li...Read more