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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Guardian Cats

    • October 21, 2018
    • NHK

  • S01E02 A Cup of Communication

    • November 18, 2018
    • NHK

  • S01E03 Books, Curry and the Taste of Home

    • December 23, 2018
    • NHK
  • S01E04 From Toyama to Tanzania: Oki-gusuri Medicine Peddlers Cross the World

    • January 20, 2019
    • NHK

    Reporter Batlet Milanzi introduces Oki-gusuri, a unique medicine system of Japan where people "use now, pay later." In order to dig deeper into the folklore and the birthplace of Oki-gusuri, she visits Toyama Prefecture. Subsequently, Milanzi introduces a novel initiative taken by a young Japanese pharmacist who has rolled out the system of Oki-gusuri in Milanzi's home country Tanzania, and how it has already started affecting the lives of people living in villages in Tanzania.

  • S01E05 Faithful Dogs, True Friends

    • February 17, 2019
    • NHK

    The story of a faithful Akita-inu "Hachi" is well-known in Japan. While in Russia, there is a similar story called "White Bim Black Ear." Russian reporter Anastasia Monakova got interested in the similarity of the 2 stories and she visited Odate City, the hometown of Akita-inu. People still remember that President Putin and a gold medal figure skater Alina Zagitova were presented with them. In the program, she visited a place where visitors can meet Akita-inu. Finally, she visited one of their breeders.

  • S01E06 Okinawa, Homeland of Karate

    • March 24, 2019
    • NHK

    There are 100 million karate lovers around the world, and it will be introduced at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. Karate is also popular in Brazil, and it was introduced there by the immigrants from Okinawa Prefecture. Brazilian reporter Monique Souza presents the attractions of karate in Portuguese from its birthplace Okinawa, which karate lovers long to see. She meets a karate practitioner from Brazil in Naha City's karate dojo. There she touches the spirit of karate.