Ended · 2017–2024
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Seasons & episodes
Season 2017 · 9 episodes
- S2017 E01 · Painting with Soul
- S2017 E02 · Detroit Revealed - My Grandfather John Hersey and America
- S2017 E03 · A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda
- S2017 E04 · Miatari Finders
- S2017 E05 · Legendary Giant Tree of Yakushima
- S2017 E06 · Boxing Woman
- S2017 E07 · An Honest Death - A Palliative Care Doctor's Final Days
- S2017 E08 · Fukushima Mothers
- S2017 E09 · Rescuing the Lost Battalion - The Story behind the "Heroes"
Season 2018 · 27 episodes
- S2018 Special · *RERUN A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda
- S2018 E01 · One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey
- S2018 E02 · Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea
- S2018 E03 · Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan
- S2018 E04 · Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On
- S2018 E05 · Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers
- S2018 E06 · The Fisherman and the Forest
- S2018 E07 · Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
- S2018 E08 · Tsuruko's Tea Journey
- S2018 E09 · The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1
- S2018 E10 · The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2
- S2018 E11 · Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder
- S2018 E12 · Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident
- S2018 E14 · Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed
- S2018 E15 · I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan
- S2018 E16 · Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan
- S2018 E17 · A Life with Flowers
- S2018 E18 · Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe
- S2018 E19 · Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods
- S2018 E20 · Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors
- S2018 E21 · A World of Boisterous Silence
- S2018 E22 · Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market
- S2018 E23 · China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1
- S2018 E24 · China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2
- S2018 E25 · An 18-Year-Old's Departure
- S2018 E26 · The Pianist in the Rubble
- S2018 E27 · Manzanar Revealed
Season 2019 · 26 episodes
- S2019 Special · *RERUN A Life with Flowers
- S2019 E01 · A Doctor Beside the Deathbed
- S2019 E02 · Epic Challenge: A Race Across the Japanese Alps
- S2019 E03 · Reviving Kumamoto Castle
- S2019 E04 · Class Struggle: Changes to China's Education System
- S2019 E05 · A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather
- S2019 E06 · Vessel of Friendship: An Untold Story
- S2019 E07 · Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 1
- S2019 E08 · Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 2
- S2019 E09 · Split-Screen Documentary: Nuclear Ghost Town - After 8 Years
- S2019 E11 · A Journey through Genders
- S2019 E12 · Bettering Tibet
- S2019 E13 · I too was a Child of Camp.
- S2019 E14 · Hope in the Dark
- S2019 E15 · The Spirit of Kendo: The Path of No Regret
- S2019 E16 · MATAGI - Worshipping Bears
- S2019 E17 · Helping Hands - The Lives of Atomic Bomb Orphans
- S2019 E18 · The United Red Army: A Troubled Legacy
- S2019 E19 · The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 1
- S2019 E20 · The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 2
- S2019 E21 · 1971 - Japanese Rugby Takes On England, And The World
- S2019 E22 · Chinese Internet Celebrities: Influencing the Huge Online Market
- S2019 E23 · Henoko: Living with an American Base
- S2019 E24 · Digging the Untold History
- S2019 E25 · No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 1: Clearing Plastic from the Ocean
- S2019 E26 · No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 2: Frontlines of Global Business
Season 2020 · 26 episodes
- S2020 E01 · SAMURAI WALL
- S2020 E02 · Repatriation: Resettling in North Korea
- S2020 E03 · MIYAKO, The Last Dance
- S2020 E04 · 8K Documentary: The Microscopic World of iPS Cells
- S2020 E05 · All That Remains
- S2020 E06 · Stumbling Toward the Precipice
- S2020 E07 · Refugee Heroes: The Road to Tokyo
- S2020 E08 · Dignity for All: The Legacy of Sadako Ogata
- S2020 E09 · Digital Detectives
- S2020 E10 · 10 Years and Beyond: iPS Cells and Kyoto University's CiRA
- S2020 E11 · Journalism of Hope
- S2020 E12 · OKINA Dance of Life
- S2020 E13 · Oswald and JFK Unsolved Cases Part 1: The Pawn
- S2020 E14 · Oswald and JFK Unsolved Cases Part 2: The Chessmaster
- S2020 E15 · Peace and Justice: The Spirit of Japan's Postwar Constitution
- S2020 E16 · Pandemic Diaries: How the Emergency Declaration Affected Us
- S2020 E17 · Tsuruko's Tea Journey in Germany
- S2020 E18 · Exposing the Coronavirus: Our Invisible Enemy in 3DCG
- S2020 E19 · The Shape of Sound: A Piano Paints the Seasons of Nara
- S2020 E20 · AI vs Pandemic: Part 1
- S2020 E21 · AI vs Pandemic: Part 2
- S2020 E22 · The Lost Textile of Ryukyu
- S2020 E23 · Poisonous Secrets: What did Japan and the US bury?
- S2020 E24 · Faces the Special - Voices of Hope for an Inclusive Future -
- S2020 E25 · Koza, Okinawa: Base Town Blues
- S2020 E26 · Untold Stories of the Battle of Okinawa: Women and Teens on the Frontline
Season 2021 · 27 episodes
- S2021 E01 · 3/11 - The Tsunami: The First 3 Days
- S2021 E02 · 3/11 - The Tsunami: The First Year
- S2021 E03 · Great Race: You'll Never Run Alone
- S2021 E04 · Gifts from a Parent's Deathbed
- S2021 E05 · KEN WATANABE - A Compassionate View: The decade since the Great East Japan Earthquake
- S2021 E06 · Global Commons Stewardship
- S2021 E07 · Generation 3.11: A Decade Journey
- S2021 E08 · Fukushima Monologue
- S2021 E09 · Enku: The Enigma of a Wandering Sculptor Monk
- S2021 E10 · "War Victims Die Twice"
- S2021 Special · What You Taught Me About My Son
- S2021 E11 · Recovery in 300,000 Pictures
- S2021 E12 · Hearing the Voice of Nakamura Tetsu
- S2021 E13 · Social Media and the Tides of Democracy
- S2021 E14 · Eyes in a Crisis
- S2021 E15 · Seek Nothing, Just Sit
- S2021 E16 · The Lifesaving Fuel Train
- S2021 E17 · Karl and Tina: Embracing Village Life in Japan
- S2021 E18 · A Man Who Aligned Japan with the Nazis
- S2021 E19 · Empty Homes, Shattered Dreams: China's "Ghost Castles"
- S2021 E20 · We're Not "Gaijin"!
- S2021 E21 · A Maiko's Coiffure: Beautiful Ties in Kyoto
- S2021 E22 · Sahel Rosa — A War Orphan's Journey
- S2021 E23 · My School of Many Colors
- S2021 E24 · Finding Mr. Kondo: Tracing the Life of a Wartime Illustrator
- S2021 E25 · War and Disease: Falling to Malaria
- S2021 E26 · War and Disease: A Vaccine Tragedy
Season 2022 · 28 episodes
- S2022 E01 · Heirs of the Red Gene: A Century of Chinese Communist Rule
- S2022 E02 · Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937)
- S2022 E03 · Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 2 (1937-1941)
- S2022 E04 · FINDING SATOSHI
- S2022 E05 · A Monk's Lessons: Living amid Death from COVID
- S2022 E06 · Carbon Farming: A Climate Solution Under Our Feet
- S2022 E07 · Reviving Tezuma: Japan's Traditional Magic
- S2022 E08 · The Unknown Master of Restoration
- S2022 E09 · Fukushima Monologue II
- S2022 E10 · Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater
- S2022 E11 · Ukraine: Prelude to a Crisis
- S2022 E12 · Rainbow Family
- S2022 E13 · A Teacher's Life Lesson
- S2022 E14 · Karl and Tina: Village Life in the Deep Snow
- S2022 E15 · Daily Life in Times of War
- S2022 E16 · Kyiv, the Resistance of Citizens
- S2022 E17 · Art of the Inland Sea
- S2022 E18 · Art is Our Voice
- S2022 E19 · Land of Rising Dreams?
- S2022 E20 · Karl and Tina: Bountiful Autumn in the Village
- S2022 E21 · Mississippi Revealed
- S2022 E22 · JAPAN-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT: Behind the Curtain
- S2022 E23 · Mountainous Traditions
- S2022 E24 · OKINAWA'S RETURN: 50 YEARS ON - Islands at Odds with Peace & Security -
- S2022 E25 · Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 1
- S2022 E26 · Poet of the Piano Fuzjko Hemming: On a Journey to Chopin's Mallorca
- S2022 E27 · Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 2
- S2022 E28 · Danjuro: A Kabuki Star for Three Centuries
Season 2023 · 25 episodes
- S2023 E01 · Where Will Divided America Go from Here? US Midterm Elections 2022
- S2023 E02 · The Red Way: The Making of a Third Term
- S2023 E03 · A Voice to the Voiceless
- S2023 E04 · Why I'm at War
- S2023 E05 · End-of-Life Guardians
- S2023 E06 · Raising a Family on Cat Island
- S2023 E07 · Blues from the Obscure
- S2023 E08 · Steve Jobs and Japan
- S2023 E09 · TOKYO SCANNING
- S2023 E10 · Taiwan's Windy Frontline Islands
- S2023 E11 · Voices of Tohoku: What We Want From Reconstruction
- S2023 E12 · A Director's War
- S2023 E13 · Return to an Abandoned Village: 50 Years in Tsubayama
- S2023 E14 · ISSEY MIYAKE: The Human Inside the Clothes
- S2023 E15 · Prayers of a Thousand Years
- S2023 E16 · Women on the Front Line: 15% of Japan's Politicians
- S2023 E17 · The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 2
- S2023 E18 · Ukraine's Nuclear Dilemma
- S2023 E19 · Staging Shared Memories - Yu Miri and Young Fukushima Actors -
- S2023 E20 · On the Frontlines of Myanmar's Civil War
- S2023 E21 · Walking a Tightrope: The Filmmaker Yang Yonghi
- S2023 E22 · The Day I Gave Up My Daughter
- S2023 E23 · Piano Girl
- S2023 E24 · The Falconer's Legacy
- S2023 E25 · Finding My Mirror
Season 2024 · 7 episodes
- S2024 E01 · Karl and Tina: Season's Greetings from a Wintry Village
- S2024 E02 · The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 3
- S2024 E03 · Home is Where the War is
- S2024 E04 · The Rise and Fall of a Crypto Star
- S2024 E05 · A Fukushima Photo Album
- S2024 E06 · The Japanese Dream: Nepali Students in Japan
- S2024 E07 · Aso Jinja: A Shinto Shrine Rises from the Rubble
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