- Created By
- First Aired on
Apr 28, 2015
- Popularity: 22.2012
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- Networks
- (JP)
- Production
NHK (JP)NHK Educational (JP)Kyodo Television (JP)
- Status: Returning Series
In Production
11 seaons till Feb 07, 2025
Last episode: Imamura Shogo: Illuminating the Present with Historical Fiction
Seasons & episodes
Total 11 seasons, 96 episodes
Season 1
Aired
Episode 1Naoki Matayoshi: Creativity Inspired by Human Observation28 min
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Episode 2Tetsuko Kuroyanagi: The Enduring Power of Television28 min
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Episode 3Seiji Fujishiro: Expressing the Joy of Life through Light and Shadow28 min
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. 80% of the Japanese population was born after the war, and the people who are old enough to remember it are all elderly. How will they pass on their stories? One man who is telling his story is the artist Seiji Fujishiro, age 91, well known in Japan for his "shadow pictures”. Why did Fujishiro feel compelled to make art about his experience of war? We ask this and many more questions as we explore Japan 70 years after the war.
Episode 4Ken Endo: Legs to Stand On28 min
In 2020, when Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games, it will also host the Paralympic Games. Japan has traditionally lagged behind in the development of artificial limbs - one man trying to change that is prosthetic leg engineer Ken Endo. He has done very promising work on robotic limbs at the MIT Media Lab, with a particular focus on artificial legs for athletes. Endo's conviction is that "disabilities lie not in humans but in technology". We speak with this visionary engineer.
Episode 5Eiji Mitooka: Trains of Thought28 min
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