Even though locals are used to seeing, it may be an emotional experience for first-timers. This is a travel show that values first-time reactions of newcomers and rediscovers the "proud charms" of Oga, Akita. The guests, Gantulga from Mongolia and Alina from Ukraine visit some hot spots of Oga in winter. Through this tour, you will discover the charms of Oga's food, culture, and sightseeing including Namahage. After watching this program, you will want to visit Oga for sure. Let's enjoy the tour full of laughs and discoveries!

Note: This program has English subtitles.

Parents with disabled children worry about who will watch over their dear children after they pass away.

Kunai Yasuo, living in Hiroshima City, is raising two disabled children. The older brother, Masahiro, has autism, and the younger brother, Yuki, has both autism and intellectual disabilities. However, the parents cannot support their son forever. When considering the parents’ inevitable death, what will happen to the two children? The family continues to live fearing their future.

Currently, Japan faces a nationwide shortage of facilities for people with severe disabilities. In Hiroshima Prefecture, there is a waiting list of people hoping to enter such facilities. It is a result of a national policy to shift people with disabilities from these facilities to community group residences, or their own home. The idea is to have them live independently in the community just like able people.

The death of a parent will inevitably come someday. When that happens, is there a place where you can safely leave your child? How will a society that is losing tolerance accept such families? In this program, we focus on the daily life of a family with disabled children.

障がいのある子どもを持つ親の悩み。それは「親である自分が亡くなった後、誰が大切な我が子を見守ってくれるのか」ということ。

広島市内に暮らす九内康夫さんは、２人の障がいのある子どもを育てている。兄の誠洋さんは自閉症、弟の勇輝さんは自閉症と知的障害を併せもっている。弟の勇輝さんは一日の大半、部屋の中を飛び跳ね、歩き回る。しかし、親がこの先もずっと息子を支えることはできない。将来必ず訪れる“親の死”を考えたとき、２人の子どもはどうなってしまうのか。家族の将来に不安を抱える生活が今日も続いている。

現在日本では、主に重度の障がい者が入所する施設が全国的に不足している。広島県では施設への入所を希望する待機者が列をなしている状況だ。ここには「障がい者の受け入れを“入所施設”から“地域のグループホームや自宅”へ移行し、健常者と同じように障がい者が地域で自立して暮らす」という国が進めている政策が関係している。

いつか必ず訪れる親の死。その時、安心して子どもを託せる場所はあるのか。寛容さをなくしつつある社会はこの家族をどう受け入れていくのか。障がいのある子どもを支える、家族の日々を見つめた。

Tokyo harbors more Michelin-starred restaurants than any other city in the world. Variety abounds,from kaiseki and sushi to tempura and yakitori. Each style blends tradition and innovation.The skills master chefs wield in their imaginative use of seasonal ingredients and the spirit of hospitality they impart to delight their patrons are the treasures of Japan's cuisine.
Treasure hunter Shizuka Anderson visits some of the best restaurants in Tokyo to unearth the culinary delights hidden there.

Hiroshima is where the world’s first atomic bomb was dropped. Peace Park in the center of the city has the A-Bomb Dome, the A-Bomb Museum, the Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims, and more. All of these tell the reality of the atomic bombing. What kind of people come to this place of prayer? We looked at a year in the life of Peace Park.
Kazuko Watanabe (78) visits the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound in the park every day at dawn. We saw Mrs. Watanabe carefully raking the fallen leaves at the memorial mound and cleaning the flower stand. Some 70,000 unclaimed remains are enshrined here. Mrs. Watanabe, who has been volunteering for more than 20 years says,”You can say there are 70,000, but each and every one of them was a person who had a precious life with hope for a bright future. The atomic bomb cut that short.” Her sister-in-law, 14 at the time, went missing in the bombing and never returned home.
Today, people from all walks of life visit this place of prayer. People come to take part in the “sennin kenka (flower-offering by 1,000 people)” on New Year’s Day at the Cenotaph for Atomic Bomb Victims. For 60 years, a Buddhist monk has been coming to the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound on the sixth day of every month to read a sutra. Every day, a man reads witness accounts of Hibakusha at the Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall. As we continued our coverage, Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine began. Who came to Peace Park then?
This program depicts the sentiments of HIROSHIMA through the people we met in Peace Park.

世界で初めて原子爆弾が投下されたヒロシマ。街の中心にある平和公園は、原爆ドームや原爆資料館、原爆死没者慰霊碑などがあり、被爆の実相を伝えている。この祈りの場には、日々どんな人がやって来るのか。番組では平和公園の1年を追った。

渡部和子さん（７８歳）は、毎日夜明けとともに公園内にある原爆供養塔にやってくる。渡部さんは、供養塔周辺の落ち葉を丁寧にかき集め、献花台を清掃していた。ここには約７万柱の引き取り手のない遺骨が納められている。２０年以上ボランティアを続ける渡部さんは、「７万と言われても、お一人お一人のそれまでにかけがえのない人生があったんだし、希望があった。輝かしい人生を原爆で断ち切られたんですから。」と語る。当時１４歳だった義理の姉は、原爆で行方不明になったまま戻ってこなかったという。

祈りの場には今日も様々な人が訪れる。元旦、原爆死没者慰霊碑で“千人献花”を行う人々。毎月６日、６０年にわたって原爆供養塔での読経を続ける僧侶。毎日、原爆死没者追悼平和祈念館で被爆体験記を読む男性。取材を続ける中で、ロシアによるウクライナへの軍事侵攻が始まった。そのとき、どんな人がいたのか。平和公園で出会った人たちを通して、“ヒロシマの思い”が映し出される。

“Thinking nothing of trend but delivering their products to people who need”. This is the Yamagata craftsman’s spirit. We introduce their products and positive attitude toward the world markets from Yamagata. Here is the real secret of craftsmanship.

An SATV Japanese TV crew spent over a month filming tuna fishing in the North Atlantic for the first time.

A reporter, cameraman and 23 other fishermen departed from Las Palmas, off the northwestern coast of Africa in the Canary Islands, heading for the coast of Ireland.

This documentary presents extraordinary footage of the fishermen who risk their lives to fish bluefin tuna also known as “black diamonds”, in the very cold and rough North Atlantic.

It follows the historic “Hae-Nawa (longline)” fishing technique. Along the 150 km “Miki-Nawa (main line)”, fishhooks with bait are set atop over 3,000 shorter “Eda-Nawa (branch line)”. It takes around 5 hours to throw the lines and more than 13 hours to pull them back in.

Although the average tuna fish weighs about 170kg, during filming, a super-giant tuna weighing 392kg was caught. Upon being caught, tuna is immediately frozen at minus 60 degrees Celsius. Then six months later, the fishing vessel arrives at Yaizu Port, the largest fishing port for tuna landings in Japan. Viewers can watch tuna auctions at the Tsukiji Fish Market and follow those who eat the 392 kg super-giant tuna.

It also offers an insight into the unexplored fisherman’s lifestyle as they live, eat and work.