NHK World Prime (2017) — Watch, Cast & Overview

Seasons (8)

Season 2017

7 Oct 2017 – 19 Aug 2017 · 9 episodes

1Painting with Soul7 Oct 2017
2Detroit Revealed - My Grandfather John Hersey and America14 Oct 2017
3A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda21 Oct 2017
4Miatari Finders28 Oct 2017
5Legendary Giant Tree of Yakushima18 Nov 2017
6Boxing Woman2 Dec 2017
7An Honest Death - A Palliative Care Doctor's Final Days9 Dec 2017
8Fukushima Mothers16 Dec 2017
9Rescuing the Lost Battalion - The Story behind the "Heroes"19 Aug 2017

Season 2018

6 Jan 2018 – 29 Dec 2018 · 26 episodes

1One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey6 Jan 2018
2Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea13 Jan 2018
3Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan27 Jan 2018
4Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On3 Feb 2018
5Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers24 Feb 2018
6The Fisherman and the Forest10 Mar 2018
7Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons17 Mar 2018
8Tsuruko's Tea Journey31 Mar 2018
9The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 114 Apr 2018
10The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 221 Apr 2018
11Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder2 Jun 2018
12Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident9 Jun 2018
14Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed23 Jun 2018
15I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan30 Jun 2018
16Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan14 Jul 2018
17A Life with Flowers28 Jul 2018
18Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe11 Aug 2018
19Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods18 Aug 2018
20Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors22 Sep 2018
21A World of Boisterous Silence29 Sep 2018
22Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market13 Oct 2018
23China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 120 Oct 2018
24China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 227 Oct 2018
25An 18-Year-Old's Departure17 Nov 2018
26The Pianist in the Rubble24 Nov 2018
27Manzanar Revealed29 Dec 2018

Season 2019

12 Jan 2019 – 27 Dec 2019 · 25 episodes

1A Doctor Beside the Deathbed12 Jan 2019
2Epic Challenge: A Race Across the Japanese Alps19 Jan 2019
3Reviving Kumamoto Castle9 Feb 2019
4Class Struggle: Changes to China's Education System16 Feb 2019
5A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather16 Mar 2019
6Vessel of Friendship: An Untold Story30 Mar 2019
7Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 110 May 2019
8Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 217 May 2019
9Split-Screen Documentary: Nuclear Ghost Town - After 8 Years24 May 2019
11A Journey through Genders5 Jul 2019
12Bettering Tibet19 Jul 2019
13I too was a Child of Camp.16 Aug 2019
14Hope in the Dark23 Aug 2019
15The Spirit of Kendo: The Path of No Regret6 Sep 2019
16MATAGI - Worshipping Bears13 Sep 2019
17Helping Hands - The Lives of Atomic Bomb Orphans20 Sep 2019
18The United Red Army: A Troubled Legacy27 Sep 2019
19The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 14 Oct 2019
20The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 211 Oct 2019
211971 - Japanese Rugby Takes On England, And The World18 Oct 2019
22Chinese Internet Celebrities: Influencing the Huge Online Market8 Nov 2019
23Henoko: Living with an American Base15 Nov 2019
24Digging the Untold History13 Dec 2019
25No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 1: Clearing Plastic from the Ocean21 Dec 2019
26No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 2: Frontlines of Global Business27 Dec 2019

Season 2020

3 Jan 2020 – 26 Dec 2020 · 26 episodes

1SAMURAI WALL3 Jan 2020
2Repatriation: Resettling in North Korea10 Jan 2020
3MIYAKO, The Last Dance17 Jan 2020
48K Documentary: The Microscopic World of iPS Cells31 Jan 2020
5All That Remains7 Feb 2020
6Stumbling Toward the Precipice21 Feb 2020
7Refugee Heroes: The Road to Tokyo28 Feb 2020
8Dignity for All: The Legacy of Sadako Ogata3 Apr 2020
9Digital Detectives24 Apr 2020
1010 Years and Beyond: iPS Cells and Kyoto University's CiRA8 May 2020
11Journalism of Hope15 May 2020
12OKINA Dance of Life29 May 2020
13Oswald and JFK Unsolved Cases Part 1: The Pawn13 Jun 2020
14Oswald and JFK Unsolved Cases Part 2: The Chessmaster20 Jun 2020
15Peace and Justice: The Spirit of Japan's Postwar Constitution24 Jul 2020
16Pandemic Diaries: How the Emergency Declaration Affected Us21 Aug 2020
17Tsuruko's Tea Journey in Germany11 Sep 2020
18Exposing the Coronavirus: Our Invisible Enemy in 3DCG18 Sep 2020
19The Shape of Sound: A Piano Paints the Seasons of Nara2 Oct 2020
20AI vs Pandemic: Part 116 Oct 2020
21AI vs Pandemic: Part 229 Oct 2020
22The Lost Textile of Ryukyu7 Nov 2020
23Poisonous Secrets: What did Japan and the US bury?14 Nov 2020
24Faces the Special - Voices of Hope for an Inclusive Future -21 Nov 2020
25Koza, Okinawa: Base Town Blues28 Nov 2020
26Untold Stories of the Battle of Okinawa: Women and Teens on the Frontline26 Dec 2020

Season 2021

9 Jan 2021 – 18 Dec 2021 · 26 episodes

13/11 - The Tsunami: The First 3 Days9 Jan 2021
23/11 - The Tsunami: The First Year16 Jan 2021
3Great Race: You'll Never Run Alone23 Jan 2021
4Gifts from a Parent's Deathbed27 Feb 2021
5KEN WATANABE - A Compassionate View: The decade since the Great East Japan Earthquake6 Mar 2021
6Global Commons Stewardship13 Mar 2021
7Generation 3.11: A Decade Journey27 Mar 2021
8Fukushima Monologue3 Apr 2021
9Enku: The Enigma of a Wandering Sculptor Monk10 Apr 2021
10"War Victims Die Twice"17 Apr 2021
11Recovery in 300,000 Pictures8 May 2021
12Hearing the Voice of Nakamura Tetsu15 May 2021
13Social Media and the Tides of Democracy29 May 2021
14Eyes in a Crisis26 Jun 2021
15Seek Nothing, Just Sit17 Jul 2021
16The Lifesaving Fuel Train31 Jul 2021
17Karl and Tina: Embracing Village Life in Japan21 Aug 2021
18A Man Who Aligned Japan with the Nazis28 Aug 2021
19Empty Homes, Shattered Dreams: China's "Ghost Castles"11 Sep 2021
20We're Not "Gaijin"!16 Oct 2021
21A Maiko's Coiffure: Beautiful Ties in Kyoto23 Oct 2021
22Sahel Rosa — A War Orphan's Journey20 Nov 2021
23My School of Many Colors27 Nov 2021
24Finding Mr. Kondo: Tracing the Life of a Wartime Illustrator4 Dec 2021
25War and Disease: Falling to Malaria11 Dec 2021
26War and Disease: A Vaccine Tragedy18 Dec 2021

Season 2022

8 Jan 2022 – 31 Dec 2022 · 28 episodes

1Heirs of the Red Gene: A Century of Chinese Communist Rule8 Jan 2022
2Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937)15 Jan 2022
3Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 2 (1937-1941)15 Jan 2022
4FINDING SATOSHI29 Jan 2022
5A Monk's Lessons: Living amid Death from COVID12 Feb 2022
6Carbon Farming: A Climate Solution Under Our Feet19 Feb 2022
7Reviving Tezuma: Japan's Traditional Magic26 Feb 2022
8The Unknown Master of Restoration5 Mar 2022
9Fukushima Monologue II12 Mar 2022
10Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater23 Apr 2022
11Ukraine: Prelude to a Crisis28 May 2022
12Rainbow Family11 Jun 2022
13A Teacher's Life Lesson18 Jun 2022
14Karl and Tina: Village Life in the Deep Snow25 Jun 2022
15Daily Life in Times of War6 Aug 2022
16Kyiv, the Resistance of Citizens13 Aug 2022
17Art of the Inland Sea27 Aug 2022
18Art is Our Voice1 Oct 2022
19Land of Rising Dreams?8 Oct 2022
20Karl and Tina: Bountiful Autumn in the Village22 Oct 2022
21Mississippi Revealed29 Oct 2022
22JAPAN-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT: Behind the Curtain12 Nov 2022
23Mountainous Traditions19 Nov 2022
24OKINAWA'S RETURN: 50 YEARS ON - Islands at Odds with Peace & Security -17 Dec 2022
25Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 124 Dec 2022
26Poet of the Piano Fuzjko Hemming: On a Journey to Chopin's Mallorca24 Dec 2022
27Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 231 Dec 2022
28Danjuro: A Kabuki Star for Three Centuries31 Dec 2022

Season 2023

21 Jan 2023 – 23 Dec 2023 · 25 episodes

1Where Will Divided America Go from Here? US Midterm Elections 202221 Jan 2023
2The Red Way: The Making of a Third Term4 Feb 2023
3A Voice to the Voiceless11 Feb 2023
4Why I'm at War25 Feb 2023
5End-of-Life Guardians5 Mar 2023
6Raising a Family on Cat Island18 Mar 2023
7Blues from the Obscure18 Mar 2023
8Steve Jobs and Japan25 Mar 2023
9TOKYO SCANNING25 Mar 2023
10Taiwan's Windy Frontline Islands26 Mar 2023
11Voices of Tohoku: What We Want From Reconstruction22 Apr 2023
12A Director's War22 Apr 2023
13Return to an Abandoned Village: 50 Years in Tsubayama29 Apr 2023
14ISSEY MIYAKE: The Human Inside the Clothes27 May 2023
15Prayers of a Thousand Years3 Jun 2023
16Women on the Front Line: 15% of Japan's Politicians10 Jun 2023
17The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 217 Jun 2023
18Ukraine's Nuclear Dilemma5 Aug 2023
19Staging Shared Memories - Yu Miri and Young Fukushima Actors -9 Sep 2023
20On the Frontlines of Myanmar's Civil War23 Sep 2023
21Walking a Tightrope: The Filmmaker Yang Yonghi21 Oct 2023
22The Day I Gave Up My Daughter11 Nov 2023
23Piano Girl9 Dec 2023
24The Falconer's Legacy16 Dec 2023
25Finding My Mirror23 Dec 2023

Season 2024

27 Jan 2024 – 31 Mar 2024 · 7 episodes

1Karl and Tina: Season's Greetings from a Wintry Village27 Jan 2024
2The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 33 Feb 2024
3Home is Where the War is24 Feb 2024
4The Rise and Fall of a Crypto Star3 Mar 2024
5A Fukushima Photo Album24 Mar 2024
6The Japanese Dream: Nepali Students in Japan30 Mar 2024
7Aso Jinja: A Shinto Shrine Rises from the Rubble31 Mar 2024

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