A Sri Lankan student participates in the Mie Prefecture "Youth Police Supporters" volunteer program that works with ...

A couple who lost their second son when two hours old talks about their grief and sorrow, a topic often not discussed in ...

Classical Noh theater goes back more than 600 years, long the domain of select families. But now outside talent is stepping in. Meet one of the new performers keeping Noh's spirit alive.

In Okayama Prefecture, Land of Sunshine, we meet high school students revolutionizing a town's famous denim, then ride into ...

Culinary researcher Yokoyama Takako lives in a mountain region. She cans and ferments local produce to make it through the ...

Ike-san is a small nursing care facility in Ehime Prefecture. Founder Ikeuchi Daisuke considers the residents and visitors ...

A historic fight between sumo wrestlers and the Megumi firefighting gang is dramatized in this play, which ends in a free-for ...

Today: asking someone to repeat and clarify. Do Cong Uan, from Vietnam, works at a metalworking company. He came to Japan ...

Japan don't drink, where intense social drinking is normal. Through interviews with drinkers and non-drinkers, we hear both ...

We visit one of Japan's last remaining full-process wedding dress factories and learn about the months of hard work and ...

Design Hunting in Kagawa. Japan's smallest prefecture is on the island of Shikoku, surrounded by mountains and the sea. Meet ...

Do you love soy sauce or sake? Discover how a single type of microbe, Aspergillus Oryzae, enhances the flavor of Washoku, ...