Production in 2001

"Journey to My Soul" "Germany - Between Home Land and Foreign Land" traveller: KANG SangJung, Political Scientist   Broadcast: 21 January,2001 by NHK BS2 44min. Project initiated, directed, and produced by Hiroshi MASUDA Mr. Kang Sang Jung, who became the first professor at Tokyo University, as a Korean resident born in Japan, is well known as a keen and active critic on modern Asia and Japan. In the program, he visits Erlangen, Germany, where he was a student twenty years ago. He stayed for only two years then, but he met a student from Greece, who soon became his best friend, and this German experience brought a big change in his life. After twenty years, he visits the campus again, reflects on experiences which made him what he is now, and meet his Greek friend again. 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. The program is included in "NHK Kadan", serial Tanka program on NHK educational channel.