｜Length : 25 ｜Year : 2017 ｜

The town of Nagahama was once home to the first aquarium in all of Shikoku, one of Japan’s four main islands. Now it is home to an aquarium run entirely by high school students. The public high school’s small aquarium opens up for public viewing once a month. With roughly 2000 aquatic animals from both the sea and rivers, the public openings always draw a big and lively crowd. The animals are cared for by the aquarium club, a rare club for Japanese schools. As the club members care for the animals, they learn many new things, and in 2015, the club placed fourth in the world’s largest student science contest. Hearing this news brought back old memories and brought a new life to the townspeople, who began holding events and collecting signatures to revive the original aquarium. The town was transformed by the young high school students and set out to revive the original aquarium.

｜Length : 47 ｜Year : 2017 ｜

Mio Matsuda is a “traveling singer” who has spent five years on a project reviving precious Japanese folk songs on the verge of obscurity. By visiting the landscapes that nurtured the songs, she aims to convey the regional lifestyles and sentiments of old-day Japan in her performances. A key resource for her is a folk art research center in Akita with archived recordings of 70,000 folk songs. In the program she introduces several such songs including “Yamago-uta”, sung by hunters in Akita in reverence of the mountains, and “Tokohai-bushi”, sung by seamen navigating the Seto Inland Sea. Her quest also takes her to Palau, where residents still sing a Japanese song titled “Lemongrass”. Written in Micronesia during the time of Japanese administration, the song expresses a sad romance between a Japanese man and a Micronesian woman, and as such it is a valuable testament to the sentiments of that time.

｜Length : 47 ｜Year : 2017 ｜

Ocean “fun-ologist” Masamichi Hayashi has for the last ten years been making life like robots of aquatic creatures to teach children about the wonders of the ocean. As a child,Hayashi always played in the ocean, and as a young man, he studied oceanology; the ocean was his everything. However, Hayashi was diagnosed with lung cancer about a decade ago. Although his cancer robbed him of his ability to swim with the dolphins,Hayashi discovered a new passion to create robots of aquatic creatures with trash.
Despite his own deteriorating health, Hayashi traveled from city to city, cheering up sick children with his robots, even developing a wheelchair that can move about freely in the ocean for wheelchair-bound kids. Finally, Hayashi successfully took such kids for a swim in the seas of Okinawa. However, after a decade of such work, Hayashi abruptly announced his retirement. Watch to find out why.

｜Length : 47 ｜Year : 2017 ｜

Tsubame-Sanjo in Niigata Prefecture, Japan is a metalworking region that is making a name for itself internationally. "Made in Tsubame-Sanjo" has come to stand for new and innovative products manufactured using traditional Japanese handmade metalworking techniques.
Master knife-maker Tsukasa Hinoura of Sanjo City is a veteran 60-year-old craftsman whose exquisite knives have been called works of art. He is one of Tsubame-Sanjo's community leaders. Recognized internationally for his skills, Hinoura was invited to Austria to demonstrate the masterful techniques of a Tsubame-Sanjo knifesmith.
Another Sanjo City metalsmith, Teruyoshi Uchiyama, the 59-year-old president of a metal-casting firm, is reshaping his company's future by setting a new standard for thin and light enamel-coated cast-iron pots. His company's ultra-thin cast-iron pot garnered a "Best of the Best" Red Dot Award, a prestigious award from Germany for excellence in product design.
These metalsmiths who compete in the world market based on the superior quality of their products provide an insightful look into the spirit of "expertise in manufacturing" passed down through generations of craftsmen in the Tsubame-Sanjo region.

｜Length : 49 ｜Year : 2017 ｜

In April 2015, a high school drama club advisor asks the club members, “Do you know what happened on July 28?” It is the day of the bombing of Aomori 70 years ago. And he suggests they write a drama about it.
Shino, who raised her hand and volunteered to write the screenplay, decides to visit the home of a club member’s grandmother who survived the air raids. She is overwhelmed by the tragedy and horror. She had once thought she had no connection with the war, but she decides to learn more.
Then in 2016, the students get the opportunity to appear in a national competition with a play based on the Aomori air raids. The competition is held in Hiroshima, the site of an atomic bombing in World War II. Visiting Hiroshima for the first time, the club members consider the similarities between the indiscriminate horror that occurred there and the Aomori air raids.