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Bunraku: Masters of Japanese Puppet Theater

2002-01-01

Children Full of Life

2003-05-11

Satoyama II : Japan's Secret Watergarden

2004-04-12

The War in Iraq: Through Photographers' Eyes

2004-04-24

Fetal Fix

2005-01-01

Peace: The Handraised Polar Bear

2005-01-29

Heavenly Road to Tibet

2005-02-26

Deep-sea Astronauts - Japan's First Space Commander

2006-01-01

Natures Unique Angles: The Monster of the Sea

2006-01-29

Elephants Having Tales To Tell

2007-01-01

High Clouds Railway To Tibet

2007-01-29

Chocolate Alchemy

2007-02-26

Nature's Unique Angles: The Mysterious Black Rabbits

2007-03-26

Mystery of the White Dunes

2008-01-01

Miraculous Mirror of the Sky

2009-08-15

Predators in the Surf Killer Whales

2010-02-23

Crumbling Earth

2011-10-06

Fukushima: The Truth Behind the Chain of Meltdowns

2012-08-17

Fukushima: Downwind From Disaster

2013-01-01

The Sea of Zipangu - Deep Sea Gold Rush!

2013-01-19

Meltdown: Oversights in the Reactor Cooling System

2013-04-23

The Front Line of Alzheimer's Prevention

2014-03-30

The Gods Move House Mysteries of Ise and Izumo

2014-04-05

Disaster Big Data: Preparing Tokyo Residents for the Worst

2014-06-14

Challenging the Paranormal Episode 1: The Afterlife

2014-09-06

Challenging the Paranormal Episode 2: Psychic Power

2014-09-13

Brown Bears' Fateful Journey: Life on the Shiretoko Peninsula

2014-09-27

Marimo - Mysterious Living Spheres

2014-10-25

Mach Stem: The Nagasaki bombing intensified

2014-10-04

The Teotihuacan Enigma: A New Dawn of Civilization

2014-12-20

Big Data Revolution in Healthcare

2015-01-10

Meltdown: Overlooked Mass-leakage

2015-01-31

"Invisible" Children: Unheard Cries for Help

2015-02-14

Deadly Warnings for Earthquakes

2015-02-21

A Historic 3.11 Rescue Operation

2015-04-05

Disaster Big Data: Mapping a Safer World

2015-04-18

Global Battle over Beef

2015-04-25

Medical Revolution: Curing Allergies

2015-05-02

Memories of Tsunami Videos

2015-05-09

Medical Revolution - Halting Dementia

2015-07-04

The Plant Hunter

2015-07-11

Meiji Jingu Forest: A 100-year Experiment

2015-07-18

Atomic Espionage: The Race for the Bomb

2015-08-01

Beneath the Mushroom Cloud

2015-08-08

Girls' Diary: Life During World War Ⅱ

2015-08-15

The Pacific War in Color

2015-08-29

Beyond Seeing and Hearing

2016-01-09

Medical Revolution: Preventing Dementia

2016-01-31

Consolidation of Power: PM Shinzo Abe's Leadership

2016-02-14

Fukushima Fallout: Tracking the Radioactive Waste

2016-02-28

Exploring Life in Class - A Year at a Tsunami-hit School

2016-03-06

88 Hours - The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown: Episode 1

2016-03-06

88 Hours - The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown: Episode 2

2016-03-06

Decommissioning Fukushima: The Ongoing Battle against Radiation

2016-03-13

A Challenging Homecoming: Naraha Town, Fukushima

2016-03-20

Origins of Land: Nishinoshima Island

2016-03-27

Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Angkor, Cambodia

2016-04-10

Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Bagan, Myanmar

2016-04-24

Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, China

2016-05-01

Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Jomon Culture, Japan

2016-05-08

Inside The Tsunami

2016-05-15

Aid for the Displaced

2016-05-22

The Phone of the Wind: Whispers to Lost Families

2016-05-29

Escaping the Fallout: Seven Days Revealed

2016-06-12

Jakuchu: The Divine Colors

2016-06-26

Science of Motherhood

2016-07-03

Radioactive Forest

2016-07-10

Evolving Artificial Intelligence: Blessing or Curse

2016-07-24

Decommissioning Fukushima: Removing Nuclear Debris

2016-07-31

Miracle Body: The Revival of Japan's Judo

2016-08-06

Killer Stress: The Causes

2016-08-28

Killer Stress: The Remedies

2016-09-18

Miracle Body: Russia's Golden Mermaids

2016-09-25

The Last Isolados: Unknown People of the Amazon

2016-10-09

Road to Redemption

2016-10-23

Running in God's Territory: Patagonia's Extreme Trail Race

2016-11-13

Executive Non Decision: A-Bomb History Rewritten

2016-11-27

Autonomous Driving, The Revolution

2016-12-04

Ambush in Cambodia: Death of a Japanese Police Officer

2016-12-11

A Village among Active Faults

2016-12-18

Medical Revolution: The Gut Microbiome

2016-12-25

Secrets of Centenarians

2017-01-15

China the Great Dragon: Exodus of 100 Million Farmers

2017-01-22

Onbashira: Mystery behind the Sacred Trees

2017-01-29

Negotiations on the Northern Territories

2017-02-12

Medical Revolution: Glucose Spike Uncovering a Hidden Threat

2017-02-19

Decommissioning Fukushima: Ballooning Costs

2017-02-26

China the Great Dragon: Feeding Personal Wealth to Growth Industries

2017-03-04

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

2017-03-19

Inside the KIMDOM: North Korea Exposed

2017-03-26

Precision Medicine: The Cancer Treatment Revolution

2017-04-09

Bacchan: Granny's Table

2017-04-23

What You Taught Me About Happiness

2017-04-30

Money World: Fate of Capitalism - Part 1

2017-05-13

Money World: Fate of Capitalism - Part 2

2017-05-21

Money World: Fate of Capitalism - Part 3

2017-05-28

Moon Bear Chronicle: Unraveling the Mysteries

2017-06-11

China the Great Dragon: China's E-commerce Revolution

2017-06-18

China the Great Dragon: Citizens Battle to Clear the Skies

2017-06-25

The Symbolic Emperor

2017-07-02

Dad, Are You Watching Us?

2017-07-09

A Tiny Universe at Our Feet

2017-07-16

A Mother Panda's Love: The Secret Behind Successful Breeding

2017-07-30

Japan's Constitution: The Birth of a Peace-Loving Nation

2017-08-13

Discovery of the Century: The Great Dinosaur of Japan

2017-08-27

Underwater Universe of the Orda Cave

2017-09-10

Revisiting the Dhaka Terror Attack

2017-09-17

A Tale of Love and Honor: Life in Gion

2017-09-23

AI: Into the Real World

2017-10-08

Visualizing Atomic Deaths: New Facts on Hiroshima's Victims

2017-10-15

Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWⅡ Japan

2017-10-22

Unwitting Combatants: The Battle of Karafuto

2017-10-29

Okinawa's Nuclear Secrets

2017-11-05

Mega Crisis: Skyscrapers in Aseismic Danger

2017-11-19

Mega Crisis: Forecasting Super Typhoons

2017-12-10

Science to the Rescue! The Science of Adolescence

2017-12-17

Science to the Rescue! The Science of Marital Misunderstanding

2017-12-24

Unit 731: Elite Doctors and Human Experimentation

2018-01-14

With Ayumi

2018-01-21

Kuroshio: Wondrous Current of Life

2018-02-04

Home Gadgets at Risk

2018-02-18

Research Misconduct: Japanese Science in Question

2018-02-25

Wrongful Conviction: 20 Lost Years

2018-03-04

Lives Shaped by Loss: 23 Years After the Kobe Earthquake

2018-03-11

China's Westward March

2018-03-18

River Tsunami: Lessons Seven Years Later

2018-04-15

Radioactive Forest 2018: Cycle of Contamination

2018-04-29

Disaster Trauma: Mother-Child Dialogue

2018-05-06

Meltdown: Cooling Water Crisis

2018-05-27

Ghost Blood Vessels

2018-06-03

Cryptocurrency War

2018-07-01

Shrinking Japan: Tackling a Worker Shortage

2018-07-22

Missing Workers

2018-07-29

THE BODY: Our Remarkable Inner Network

2018-09-02

THE BODY: Kidneys - Keys to Health and Longevity

2018-09-09

My Grandfather's War: Battle of Luzon

2018-09-16

Station Children: Japanese Orphans of WWⅡ

2018-09-23

THE BODY: Fat and Muscle - Powerful Allies for Health

2018-10-07

THE BODY: Bones - Fountain of Youth and Power

2018-10-14

THE BODY: Gut - Key to a Healthy Immune System

2018-10-21

Nebuta 2018: Love and Rivalry

2018-10-28

A Big Circus Family

2018-11-04

THE BODY: Brain - Mechanisms of Inspiration and Memory

2018-11-11

THE BODY: The Beginnings of Life - Prenatal Chats of Mother and Baby

2018-11-18

THE BODY: Longevity - Secrets of Aging Well

2018-11-25

Sperm Crisis

2018-12-02

Finding Einstein's Brain

2018-12-09

Hiroshima: Solving the Genetic Puzzle

2018-12-16

AI: Shaping the Future

2018-12-23

Roots of TOKYO: Edo, City of Water

2018-12-29

Roots of TOKYO: Edo, City of Fire

2018-12-30

Orcas: Mysterious Gathering at Shiretoko

2019-01-20

The Choshi River: Seeing the Unseeable

2019-01-27

Tokyo's Lost Islands: Minami Iwo-to

2019-02-17

Tokyo's Lost Islands: Sofugan

2019-02-24

Rescue Triage: Learning from Disasters

2019-03-30

Black Tsunami

2019-04-14

Aurá: Last Survivor of An Unknown Tribe

2019-04-20

Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi: Tackling Nuclear Fuel Debris

2019-05-18

Nobel Laureate Salaryman: Staying Ahead in Science and Technology

2019-05-25

Yui and Bailey the Therapy Dog

2019-06-15

New Roles in a Changing World: The Japan Self-Defense Forces

2019-06-22

AI Robots: Friend or Foe?

2019-06-29

US-China Tech War

2019-07-06

From Despair to Recovery: The Era of Regenerative Medicine

2019-07-20

Who Will Protect You? Global Warming Unleashes Torrential Rain

2019-08-17

A Right to the End

2019-08-24

Death of a Dream: Vietnamese Workers in Japan

2019-08-31

Han-gure: An Emerging Threat to Society

2019-09-14

Hyakumikai: A Rare Glimpse into Kyoto's Inner Parlors

2019-09-21

A New Peace Memorial Museum: Passing on Hiroshima's Message

2019-09-28

The People and Their Emperor

2019-10-05

The Fall of Freedom - How a newspaper led Japan to war

2019-10-12

The Great Metropolitan Blackout: Preparing for Crisis

2019-11-09

Death Doulas for Businesses: End-of-Life Care for Dying Companies

2019-11-30

The Words of Emperor Showa: Records of Imperial Audiences

2019-12-14

The Supreme Imperial Collection: The Shosoin Treasures and the Birth of Japan

2019-12-21

The Leonardo da Vinci Enigma: Unraveling the Secrets of Genius

2020-01-18

My Notebooks: Seven Years of Tiny Great Adventures

2020-01-25

Living Dementia

2020-02-22

The Children of the Earthquake

2020-03-14

The Huawei Shock

2020-03-21

COVID-19: Fighting a Pandemic

2020-12-26

Invisible Homeless: People Living in Cars

2020-03-28

The Corona Shock: Can We Avoid an Economic Crisis?

2020-04-03

The Mystery of the 40-Meter Tsunami: The Great East Japan Disaster

2020-04-04

COVID-19: Preventing an Explosive Surge of Infections

2020-04-12

Battle on the Brink: The Coronavirus Crisis

2020-04-18

COVID-19: Japan Under a State of Emergency

2020-04-25

The Coronavirus State of Emergency: Medical and Economic Prospects

2020-05-02

COVID-19: Battle on the Cruise Ship

2020-05-09

Coronavirus: Exit Which Way?

2020-05-16

COVID-19: Big Data Battles the Virus

2020-05-25

The Path Forward: Surviving the "With Corona" Era

2020-06-01

We're In This Together: Life with the pandemic

2020-06-06

The Iron Road

2020-07-15

Oswald and JFK UNSOLVED CASES Part 1: The Pawn

2020-06-13

Oswald and JFK UNSOLVED CASES Part 2: The Chessmaster

2020-06-20

A Fight on Two Fronts: Floods and the Coronavirus

2020-06-29

COVID-19: The Next Wave

2020-07-06

Bearman of Hokkaido

2020-07-13

Deadly Rain: Finding the "Switch" to Save Lives

2020-07-20

Battling the Virus: On the Front Lines of Medical Care

2020-07-27

Tokyo Miracle City: Gourmet Capital - Keeping Alive the Spirit of Tsukiji

2020-08-31

Abe Shinzo Resigns: What Next for Japan?

2020-09-07

COVID-19 Pandemic: 132 Critical Days (Part 1)

2020-09-14

COVID-19 Pandemic: 132 Critical Days (Part 2)

2020-09-19

Civilians in the Crossfire: The Battle of Okinawa

2020-09-27

Tokyo Miracle City: Gargantuan Rail Network - The Passionate Pursuit of Punctuality

2020-10-04

Leaving No One Behind

2020-10-11

Tokyo Miracle City: Anime - Captivating the World Frame by Frame

2020-10-18

COVID-19 Pandemic: Transforming the Way We Work

2020-11-15

Tokyo Miracle City: Shinise - Tokyo's Time-Honored Businesses

2020-11-22

Hong Kong in Turmoil: A Crisis of Identity

2020-11-30

Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz

2020-12-05

Digital vs. Real: Infodemic - The Onslaught of Fake News

2020-12-27

Digital vs. Real: Digital Twin - The End of Privacy?

2021-01-04

Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan

2021-01-18

Women's Livelihoods in Crisis: Bearing the Brunt of the Pandemic

2021-01-31

COVID-19: AI Decodes the Research

2021-02-08

Miracle Body: Breaking Limits with Hyper-Adaptability

2021-02-14

Tsuneta Daiki: Creation through Destruction

2021-03-01

2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Climate in Crisis - Realizing a Net Zero World

2021-03-22

Origins of the Pandemic: Part 1 The Beginning

2021-04-12

Origins of the Pandemic: Part 2 Uncontrolled Spread

2021-04-17

Myanmar Coup: Digital Resistance

2021-04-26

2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Hunger Pandemic - The Catastrophic Cost of Excess

2021-05-03

Voices of the Children: 10 Years After the Disaster

2021-05-10

Inasa: Whispers on the Wind

2021-05-24

Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident

2021-05-29

Unknown Stories Revealed by Fixed-Point Cameras

2021-06-21

2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Plastic Pollution - The Toxic Cost of Mass Consumption

2021-06-28

2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Playing God - Editing the Building Blocks of Life

2021-07-26

TOKYO REBORN: The Metropolitan Expressway - The City's Artery

2021-08-09

Choose Life: Helping Young People at Risk

2021-08-23

TOKYO REBORN: Shibuya - Transforming a "Monster"

2021-09-06

Vision Hackers: Updated Takes on Saving the World

2021-09-11

Myanmar in Turmoil: The Inside Story on the Military Crackdown

2021-09-20

2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: AI Warfare - The Dark Abyss of Autonomous Weapons

2021-10-02

Prayers for the Pandemic: 1,300 Years of Ritual at Todaiji

2021-11-01

The Dementia Mentors: Lessons from my Senior Peers

2021-11-15

The Fallen Fortress

2021-12-11

The Pride of Yokozuna: Hakuho's Lone Battle

2021-12-18

The Impact of the EV Shift: Japan's Carmakers at a Crossroads

2022-01-23

Resurgence of the Seas: Natural Spectacles in Northern Waters

2022-03-13

Diary of a Nun's Abundant Kitchen

2022-05-22

Myanmar Conflict: No End in Sight

2022-06-19

Young Carers: A Silent Cry for Help

2022-07-17

From Foe to Fortune: Living with Nuisance Wildlife

2022-08-27

Tracking China's Mystery Ships: The Race for Seabed Supremacy

2022-09-10

Conveying the Horrors of War: Ukraine's Frontline Journalists

2022-10-15

Tamahagane: Miracle Steel of Japanese Swords

2022-10-29

8000 Stolen Futures: The Children at the Center of the A-Bomb

2022-11-05

Will to Survive: 900 Days in the COVID Ward

2022-11-27

Hong Kong's Changing Tides: Freedom and Democracy in High Water

2023-01-22

OSO18 - In Pursuit of a Deadly Bear

2023-01-29

North Korea: Kim Jong Un's Deepening Radicalism

2023-02-19

Shining Lives: Living with Developmental Disabilities

2023-03-05

Humans vs. Wildfires

2023-03-12

My Mom Has Dementia: A Neuroscientist's Care Diary

2023-03-26

A Nation Built on Trade: Japan in a Deglobalizing World

2023-04-16

UN Security Council: Battlefield of Words

2023-04-23

Ukraine under Attack: 72 Hours in the Presidential Office Part 1

2023-05-21

Ukraine under Attack: 72 Hours in the Presidential Office Part 2

2023-05-28

A Hospital Once Stood by the Sea: 12 Years since the Tsunami

2023-06-18

Mapping the Recovery: Shoots of Hope in Japan's 2011 Disaster Zone

2023-07-02

Reviving Japan's Economy: Breaking Free of 3 Decades of Stagnation

2023-08-13

The Devil's Gorge: Mapping No Man's Land in the Himalayas

2023-10-01

Youth Falling into a Life of Crime

2023-10-22

The Great Kanto Earthquake - Three Days of Ruin in Tokyo: Part 1

2023-11-12

The Great Kanto Earthquake - Three Days of Ruin in Tokyo: Part 2

2023-11-19

Mystery Man of the A-Bomb

2023-12-10

Living as "2nd-Generation" of Religious Devotees

2024-01-21

INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIONS: The Truth Behind China's Economic Stagnation

2024-02-25