A sampling of television programs, TEDx Talk, and documentaries.
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Passing on Memories of Disaster
NHK (Japan's Public Broadcaster) Co-host Stone memorials inscribed with the lessons of natural disasters since ancient times can be found across Japan. Japanese also learn about disaster preparedness at school. But how useful were these practices when the last disaster hit? How can preparation and response be improved? These are the questions American journalist Lucy Birmingham seeks answers to in her report on disaster education. |
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Resilient Japan
Interviews with Top Business Leaders Shukuo Ishikawa, Bandai Namco Holdings, Inc. NHK (Japan's Public Broadcaster) Co-host Bandai Namco CEO Shukuo Ishikawa discusses the company’s success in developing products; their expansion strategy centered on characters from animation, games and comics; and their plans to expand overseas. |
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Resilient Japan
Interviews with Top Business Leaders Takayuki Ohira, General Director, Ohira Tech Ltd. NHK (Japan's Public Broadcaster) Co-host Japan is known for its world-class, cutting edge technology in planetarium projectors. Ohira Tech’s founder, Takayuki Ohira has been garnering worldwide attention for his planetarium creations. In the program, Takayuki Ohira discusses his passion for planetariums, development stories, and ways he’ll continue to reach for the stars. |
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Amazing Arts of Japan
Secrets of Hokusai Scriptwriter / Script Editor More than 150 years after his death, Katsushika Hokusai remains one of Japan's most well-known artists around the world. His most popular work, 36 Views of Mount Fuji, shows the iconic mountain from multiple perspectives. Hokusai created the illustrations when he was in his seventies. This program delves into the mysteries surrounding the woodblock prints. What drove the artist to begin them late in life? And what was it about the series that dazzled the people of his era? The answers reveal truths about the artist, his work, and his times. |
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Last Artisans: Make 'em Laugh
Scriptwriter / Script Editor The modern face of Tokyo is fast paced and ever changing. A city that celebrates skyscrapers and brazen neon. A city that revels in high-tech digital design, yet is grounded in culture and tradition. Host Arthur Bernard introduces the neighborhood of Asakusa that is famous for its geisha. He unveils their secret world and ways of bringing laughter to all. |
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Last Artisans: Living Lines
Scriptwriter / Script Editor A remarkable young Japanese man, Utagawa Kunimasa VI, is one of the last artisans to preserve the Japanese art form called ukiyo-e that flourished over three centuries ago. Ukiyo-e artists of the Edo period painted their contemporaries. But as Japanese society changed and media diversified ukiyo-e culture declined. Somehow a few ukiyo-e artists have survived to carry on this extraordinary tradition. |
Last Artisans: Living Lines
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Journalists or Criminals?
TEDx Talks Speaker As president of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan, Lucy was invited to speak at TEDxTitech, held at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan’s MIT equivalent). Her talk centered on the role of journalists, whistleblowers and the public’s ‘right to know.’ |
Tedx Talks: Journalists or Criminals?
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Fukushima: On the Frontline
Script Editor On Discovery Channel, former Navy Seal Joel Lambert visits Fukushima to provide frontline reports on the situation at the nuclear power plant and its surroundings five years after the plant's 2011 nuclear disaster. Lambert takes us into the depths of the plant where we see robots pushing us forward into technology frontiers, and where humans fear to tread. |
Discovery Channel Asia: Fukushima: On the Frontline
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