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Network: NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 8235 min.
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR

Season 8 (Jan. 27, 2024, midnight)

NHK WORLD PRIME brings you a world of mainly documentaries, and more. Tune in to see special select programs on all sorts of topics and genres.


Genres: Documentary
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Season 8 (Jan. 27, 2024, midnight)

NHK WORLD PRIME brings you a world of mainly documentaries, and more. Tune in to see special select programs on all sorts of topics and genres.

Genres: Documentary

Network: NHK WORLD-JAPAN

Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese, English

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Jan. 27, 2024, midnight 0.0

S8E1 - Karl and Tina: Season's Greetings from a Wintry Village

As snow blankets their remote mountain community with its traditional Japanese houses, Karl and Tina Bengs gather with neighbors to celebrate the season, and look forward to the arrival of spring.
Feb. 3, 2024, midnight 0.0

S8E2 - The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 3

Mayuyama Koji is an art restorer tasked by antique dealers and museums with returning broken works to their former glory. His previously unrevealed techniques earned him the nickname "God Hand."
Feb. 24, 2024, midnight 0.0

S8E3 - Home Is Where the War Is

Returning home after five years, a Ukrainian journalist living in Japan confronted the harsh realities of war. She created an intimate documentary, showing how life has been upended.
March 3, 2024, midnight 0.0

S8E4 - The Rise and Fall of a Crypto Star

Sam Bankman-Fried was a young billionaire before his cryptocurrency exchange collapsed and he was convicted of fraud. Was he a visionary or scammer? We explore the wild and disruptive world of crypto.
March 24, 2024, midnight 0.0

S8E5 - A Fukushima Photo Album

In Fukushima, an "Abukuma Romantic Road" photo contest was held in 2010, the year before the nuclear accident. We seek out the people behind the photos and discover how life has changed for them.
March 30, 2024, midnight 0.0

S8E6 - The Japanese Dream: Nepali Students in Japan

An increasing number of Nepali youths are traveling to Japan to study, hoping to repay their migration debts and make lives for themselves, but they face the harsh realities of Japanese society.
March 31, 2024, midnight 0.0

S8E7 - Aso Jinja: A Shinto Shrine Rises from the Rubble

This shrine in Kumamoto Pref. was razed in the 2016 earthquake. The seven-year restoration fused traditional craftsmanship with the latest technology.
Network: NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 8235 min.
Released: Aug. 21, 2017
Last Air Date: March 31, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR

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