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NHK – Karl and Tina Embracing Village Life in Japan (2021)

17/09/2021 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

NHK – Karl and Tina: Embracing Village Life in Japan (2021)
English | Size: 557 MB
Category: Documentary

In rural Niigata Prefecture a collection of traditional Kominka homes that have been renovated to create what is known as the "Miracle Village." [Read more…]

NHK Cycle Around Japan – Hiroshima Going it Alone (2021)

30/03/2021 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

NHK Cycle Around Japan – Hiroshima: Going it Alone (2021)
English | Size: 863 MB
Category: Documentary

In the city of Hiroshima we visit a community where the families who survived the devastation of the atomic bomb in the Second World War managed to revive their traditional farming specialty. [Read more…]

NHK Cycle Around Japan – Cycle Bingo Tokyo (2020)

25/12/2020 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

NHK Cycle Around Japan – Cycle Bingo Tokyo (2020)
English | Size: 748 MB
Category: Documentary

We send 2 cyclists to explore some lesser known parts of Tokyo as they compete in our special bingo game. They have 2 days to find typical items and places in the city that correspond to squares on their cards. Pursuing this quest they discover little known facts about the city, see how a popular traditional snack is made, visit a boatyard that’s been making wooden craft for 200 years and a family farm hidden among suburban houses, and play along with an ingenious drum maker. [Read more…]

NHK Cycle Around Japan – A Deeper Side to Tokyo (2020)

24/11/2020 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

NHK Cycle Around Japan – A Deeper Side to Tokyo (2020)
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Category: Documentary

From Shibuya’s newest skyscraper to nearby Shinjuku, where a man in a tiger mask cycles the city streets. Why did he choose such a life? After he introduces us to Shinjuku’s lively back alleys, we ride west into a surprisingly natural landscape. By a tranquil river, we meet an artisan reviving a 200-year old dyeing craft and in a mountain forest a far-sighted woodsman explains his ecological approach. City and society change with the times, but these are people holding fast to their chosen paths in life. [Read more…]

NHK – Unsinkable Japans Lost Battleship (2019)

30/03/2020 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

NHK – Unsinkable: Japans Lost Battleship (2019)
English | Size: 1.78 GB
Category: Documentary

October 24, 1944, the world’s greatest battle at sea begins in the Philippines. Japan’s navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II. Instead, Musashi, its top-secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean. [Read more…]

ITV On Assignment – America, India and Japan (2019)

12/12/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

ITV On Assignment – America, India and Japan (2019)
English | Size: 614 MB
Category: Documentary

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Robert Moore travels to some of the poorest and wealthiest pockets of America to ask what presidential candidates need to do to tackle the country’s vast wealth inequality. Juliet Bremner is in India visiting the controversial Ghazipur landfill site – a 14-million tonne mountain of rubbish in a Delhi suburb blighting local communities. Steve Scott visits Japan ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics to learn more about the quintessentially Japanese martial art of karate. [Read more…]

NHK Cycle Around Japan – Yamagata Call of the Wild (2019)

02/07/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

NHK Cycle Around Japan – Yamagata: Call of the Wild (2019)
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Category: Documentary

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A 360km ride through the high mountains of Yamagata Prefecture, with a cyclist on his first long road trip. An interest in Eastern philosophy has drawn our traveler to the Three Mountains of Dewa, legendary abode of the gods. From a landscape of flowering cherry trees, we ride into the snow-capped mountains to meet a veteran artisan of Japanese chess pieces. On Mt. Haguro, we’re guided up the sacred peak by a Yamabushi mountain ascetic. Finally, we help a free-spirited falconer train his raptor in the snowy wilderness. [Read more…]