Season 12

Season 12 episodes2023-01-01

Season 12

Stories about people, stories about life. Intimate portraits of people from around Japan, each leading diverse lives while enriching lives of others.

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Episodes

Season 12

Episode 1

Stable Fishing Jobs Steer a Community

25m

Episode 2

A Float Artisan & His Muse

27m

Episode 3

Magical Forest: Okinawa's Natural World Heritage Site

50m

Episode 4

Soccer Team Raises Community Spirit

25m

Episode 5

Seeking a Chance to Learn: Students with Overseas Roots

25m

Episode 6

Small Factory Reaches for the Stars

25m

Episode 7

Flying Like an Arrow

25m

Episode 8

Modern Methods Sustain Metalwork Tradition

25m

Episode 9

A World Heritage Town: Past and Future

30m

Episode 10

Hard Rain: A Village Divided

26m

Episode 11

Bonding Through Soba: A Story of Four Grannies

25m

Episode 12

Amashi: Japan's Freediving Fishers

25m

Episode 13

Our New Classmate from Ukraine

25m

Episode 14

Waiting for the God's Crossing

28m

Episode 15

Mailing Letters to the Lost

25m

Episode 16

Kintsugi: Mending Memories with Gold

25m

Episode 17

A Cut Above the Rest

28m

Episode 18

The Final Journey

25m

Episode 19

Life on a Sloping Farm

30m

Episode 20

A House-call Doctor in Fukushima

27m

Episode 21

A Song for a New Fukushima School

25m

Episode 22

Reviving a Fukushima Brewery

25m

Episode 23

Japanese Paper Supports War-torn Ukraine

26m

Episode 24

Egg Wars – Father vs. Son

25m

Episode 25

Countryside Diaries

20m

Episode 26

A Heart-Warming Tokyo Veggie Stand

25m

Episode 27

Sparking a Chain of Kindness

28m

Episode 28

Grandma's Hands Reap Nature's Bounty

28m

Episode 29

Inheriting a Thousand-Year-Old Craft

31m