| Super Correspondents; When Will the Nightmare End? ---Reporting the World Financial Crisis from N.Y. | |||||
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| The world is falling into an unprecedented financial crisis after the fall of Lehman Brothers in September. The markets are experiencing freefalls, leaving Japan no exception. What's occurring in the Wall St.? Mr. Yohichi Ito, economist visit and investigate the matter. He interviews Prof. Paul Krugman, the Winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics, meets informants at NYSE, car dealers, and other businesses, and discuss with Mr. Jitsuro Terashima and Mr. Takuro Morinaga. |
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Production in 2008
Production in 2007
| NHK Special Tracy, the Secret Interrogation Center; what did Japanese POW's tell the enemy? | |||||
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| Near San Francisco rests an abandoned brick building that once was an extremely secret interrogation center for Japanese POW's during WWII. The center, codenamed "Tracy", hosted more than two thousand soldiers and obtained all sorts of information on Japan; military bases and ports, ships, order of battle, industries, morale. Two prisoners were put in one cell to monitor the conversation between them, to verify their answers to interrogators and get more information. The program analyses the interrogation reports and other documents from Tracy, and depicts the information war that the U.S. had overwhelming victory. |
Production in 2006
| Small Countries in the World | ||||||||||||||||||
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Those strange but familiar names in the opening parade of Olympic Games, or a tiny territory found in your armchair journey with a world atlas.... The program focuses on history, culture, and modern aspects of those countries with population under one million, and will let us feel still remaining diversity of the world, and help us to challenge a simple but great question: What the hell is a nation?
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Production in 2004
Auctioning Wildlife Animals in South Africa
～Can Invisible Hand Save Our Nature?～
Every year in South Africa are held very unique auctions to sell off wildlife animals just taken from savanna; lions, buffaloes, giraffes, etc. The biggest auction held in June gains as much as 300 million US Dollars just in one day by selling 2,000 animals of 20 species. Some might suspect it is a story of underground business including poaching and smuggling, but reality is that these auctions are not only legitimate, fair and square business fields, but also play important role in the wildlife conservation policy.
In every nation in the world, it is an important and difficult question how to conserve wildlife and realize coexistence with human. The common method is to regulate hunting and other utilization of wildlife that are possessed by nobody or solely by the state, which is perceived as the major premise. But in South Africa, there has been a Copernican change to start conservation by allowing privatization of wild animals. This change has resulted in drastically improved conservation and also boosting wildlife industry. So, what's wrong with this new policy, producing better conservation and more money?
But where is the "wild"life going? The program will explore the changing "wild" world, by following the process of wildlife animals getting counted, enlisted, captured, translocated, sold at an auction, and their fate afterward, and by focusing also on the activities of industries and people working on the process.
An unprecedented travelogue project to portray this big nation is under way taking two years, and to complete soon. The program consists of fifty episodes with each destination around the States, starting from Plymouth, MA, where the first steps were made by the Pilgrim fathers, and reaching Fairbanks, AK, as the last frontier. Format: 50 episodes, 10 min. each episode, Japanese version, HDTV NTSC (Please inquire for other formats and languages).
The Volume titles, fifty destinations, states, and contents:
～Can Invisible Hand Save Our Nature?～
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| Project initiated, directed, and produced by Hiroshi MASUDA Assistant Director: Kumiko NAKAJIMA Producer: Kazuo MATSUI Production Manager: Toshiro SOGA |
In every nation in the world, it is an important and difficult question how to conserve wildlife and realize coexistence with human. The common method is to regulate hunting and other utilization of wildlife that are possessed by nobody or solely by the state, which is perceived as the major premise. But in South Africa, there has been a Copernican change to start conservation by allowing privatization of wild animals. This change has resulted in drastically improved conservation and also boosting wildlife industry. So, what's wrong with this new policy, producing better conservation and more money?
But where is the "wild"life going? The program will explore the changing "wild" world, by following the process of wildlife animals getting counted, enlisted, captured, translocated, sold at an auction, and their fate afterward, and by focusing also on the activities of industries and people working on the process.
| America ― Heartland and Soul |
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Project Design and Chief Director: Hiroshi MASUDA Chief Producer: Yoshio UCHIDA General Producer: Toshiro SOGA Executive Producer: Shigeru MURAI, Hironao IMAZU (Evergreen Digital Contents, Inc.) Assistant Producer: Yoko SORATA, Hisahiro KAWANO Coordination and facilitation: Noriko TAKAMATSU, Jordan KRAFT Copyright Arrangement: Elke TITUS, Shizuko AMANO Director: Hiroshi MASUDA, Yuri OSUGI, Koji HAYASAKI, Mitsuhiro HARAGUCHI | ||
The Volume titles, fifty destinations, states, and contents:
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Production in 2003
| "Journey to My Soul" "South Korea - To Meet Another Myself That Has Gone Far Away" traveler : Motoko MICHIURA, Tanka Poet | |||||
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Ms. Motoko Michiura is a well known poet of Tanka, the traditional poetry of fixed form with 31 syllables. She also writes essays and biographies, and has been attracted by Fumiko KANEKO, an anarchist who died at mere 23 year-old age, in 1926, after uncompromising fight against the imperial system of Japan. Ms. Michiura visits places in South Korea, where Fumiko lived in her childhood and rests in peace now, and finds herself that once longed to live and die young for her own thoughts like Fumiko, but has lived much longer to be drifted far away from where she used to stand. |
Uta-kiko (Journey with Tanka) Only Yesterday, Just Around Us --- Revisited | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Steam locomotives, shoe polishers, watchmaker's shop, street peddlers of balloons and goldfish..... Those things surely existed just around us, only yesterday, and were quite often became charming motifs of Tanka, Japanese traditional poems. Where have all these common and familiar things gone? The program portrays nostalgic or heartwarming moments by visiting sites where they live in various forms; still in real life, in other styles or places, or in the days of fading away. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Production in 2002
| Journey along Great Rivers and History; Volga, the Rivival of Ethnic Identities | |||||
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The program will take you to a virtual tour on the riverboat along Volga, from Moscow to Astrakhan. Visiting Nizhni Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, and Elista on the way, you will feel the revival to ethnic identities of the Tatars, the Cossacs, the German Immigrant, and the Kalmyks. |
Production in 2001
Uta-kiko (Journey with Tanka) Now Haiku, Japanese traditional poetry of the shortest fixed form, with only 17 syllables, is getting popular worldwide. Tanka is the original and longer form of Haiku, made of 31 syllables, in which Japanese people have crystallized their sentiments over 1300 years. Uta-kiko is a serial 2 minute program of an anthology of Tanka made by Tanka poets in 19th and 20th century, with beautiful and lyric sceneries in Japan.
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