NHK Documentary (1999)
- Genre: Documentary
- First Air Date: 1999-04-12
- Last Air Date: 2024-02-25
- Total Seasons: 26
- Total Episodes: 276
- Status: Returning Series
- Episode Runtime: 57 min.
- Production Company: NHK
- Production Country: Japan
- Network: NHK
Hard-hitting documentary series that takes an in-depth look at some of the political, economic, and social challenges that Japan and our world is facing.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 2013 | Episode 1 | The Himalayas: Conquering All the 8,000m Peaks | 2013-01-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 2 | Facing Urban Disaster: Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake | 2013-03-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 3 | Algerian Hostage Crisis: What Happened to Japanese victims? | 2013-03-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 4 | Nuclear Waste: Managing a Lethal Legacy | 2013-03-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 5 | Disaster Big Data: Saving Lives Through Information | 2013-04-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 6 | Fukushima: Two Years Later | 2013-04-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 7 | Meltdown: Oversights in the Reactor Cooling System | 2013-04-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 8 | Robot Revolution: Will Machines Surpass Humans? | 2013-05-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 9 | MEGAQUAKE Episode 1: Predicting the Next Near-field Quake: Unearthing the Facts | 2013-05-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 10 | MEGAQUAKE Episode 2: Deadly Vibrations: Dangers of Long Duration Ground Motion | 2013-05-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 11 | The New Kabukiza: Actors Return to the Big Stage | 2013-06-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 12 | The Origins of Disease Episode 1: Cancer Evolution's Deadly Price | 2013-06-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 13 | The Origins of Disease Episode 2: Stroke The Price of Rapid Evolution | 2013-06-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 14 | The Energy Battle: Japan Seizes Its Chance | 2013-07-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 15 | Seeking Consensus: 800 Days of Struggle | 2013-07-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 16 | Mt. Fuji: A World Heritage Site Blessed with Water | 2013-08-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 17 | Black Rain: Fruitless Data on the A-Bomb Survivors | 2013-08-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 18 | The Universe at Our Feet | 2013-08-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 19 | The Pacific War: Despair on the Battlefield | 2013-08-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 20 | Yearning for Home: Fukushima Evacuees Face Difficult Choices | 2013-08-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 21 | Escape from Post-War North Korea: The Truth behind the Return to Japan | 2013-09-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 22 | Struggle over Wealth, New Super-Rich vs. Government | 2013-09-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 23 | Japan's First Space Commander: Koichi Wakata's Mission | 2013-12-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2013 | Episode 24 | Stradivarius - Mysteries of the Supreme Violin | 2013-12-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 1 | Grow or Die: Uniqlo Eyes 4 Billion New Customers | 2014-01-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 2 | Adrift in Old Age: Living with Dementia | 2014-01-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 3 | Radioactive Water: Fukushima Daiichi's Hidden Crisis | 2014-02-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 4 | Battle over Intelligence: The Path to the Japan-US War | 2014-03-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 5 | Bullying: The Lasting Impact | 2014-03-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 6 | The Front Line of Alzheimer's Prevention | 2014-03-30 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 7 | The Gods Move House: Mysteries of Ise and Izumo | 2014-04-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 8 | Senior Brigade: Protecting an Uninhabited Town | 2014-04-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 9 | Meltdown File 4: Analyzing the Radiation Leaks | 2014-05-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 10 | Hidden Economy: Money and Power in North Korea | 2014-05-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 11 | SATOUMI: People and Nature in Harmony | 2014-05-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 12 | Disaster Big Data: The Key to Recovery | 2014-06-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 13 | Disaster Big Data: Preparing Tokyo Residents for the Worst | 2014-06-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 14 | Galaxies of Ice | 2014-06-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 15 | Wandering Off: People with Dementia Go Missing | 2014-07-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 16 | Challenging the Paranormal Episode 1: The Afterlife | 2014-09-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 17 | Challenging the Paranormal Episode 2: Psychic Power | 2014-09-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 18 | Brown Bears' Fateful Journey: Life on the Shiretoko Peninsula | 2014-09-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 19 | Mach Stem: The Nagasaki bombing intensified | 2014-10-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 20 | The Peleliu Island: A Cruel Battlefield Revisited | 2014-10-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 21 | Hidden Exposure: The Truth about the H-Bomb Tests | 2014-10-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 22 | Marimo - Mysterious Living Spheres | 2014-10-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2014 | Episode 23 | The Teotihuacan Enigma: A New Dawn of Civilization | 2014-12-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 1 | Big Data Revolution in Healthcare | 2015-01-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 2 | Meltdown: Overlooked Mass-leakage | 2015-01-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 3 | "Invisible" Children: Unheard Cries for Help | 2015-02-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 4 | Deadly Warnings for Earthquakes | 2015-02-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 5 | A Historic 3.11 Rescue Operation The Records of Emergency Fire Response Teams | 2015-04-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 6 | Disaster Big Data: Mapping a Safer World | 2015-04-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 7 | Global Battle over Beef | 2015-04-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 8 | Medical Revolution: Curing Allergies | 2015-05-02 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 9 | Memories of Tsunami Videos | 2015-05-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 10 | Going Home Regardless: Record of People Returning to Fukushima | 2015-05-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 11 | Medical Revolution - Halting Dementia | 2015-06-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 12 | Islamic State: Behind the Front Lines | 2015-06-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 13 | The Plant Hunter | 2015-07-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 14 | Meiji Jingu Forest: A 100-year Experiment | 2015-07-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 15 | Decommissioning Fukushima: Fuel Debris - Battling the Unknown | 2015-07-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 16 | Atomic Espionage: The Race for the Bomb | 2015-08-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 17 | Beneath the Mushroom Cloud | 2015-08-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 18 | Girls' Diary: Life During World War Ⅱ | 2015-08-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 19 | The Pacific War in Color | 2015-08-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 20 | Islamic State: The Origins of IS | 2015-09-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 21 | Nurses on the Battlefield: Hidden Tragedy of WW2 | 2015-11-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2015 | Episode 22 | The Battle of Okinawa | 2015-11-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 1 | Beyond Seeing and Hearing | 2016-01-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 2 | Medical Revolution: Preventing Dementia | 2016-01-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 3 | Consolidation of Power: PM Shinzo Abe's Leadership | 2016-02-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 4 | Fukushima Fallout: Tracking the Radioactive Waste | 2016-02-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 5 | Exploring Life in Class - A Year at a Tsunami-hit School | 2016-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 6 | 88 Hours - The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown: Episode 1 | 2016-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 7 | 88 Hours - The Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown: Episode 2 | 2016-03-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 8 | Decommissioning Fukushima: The Ongoing Battle against Radiation | 2016-03-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 9 | A Challenging Homecoming: Naraha Town, Fukushima | 2016-03-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 10 | Origins of Land: Nishinoshima Island | 2016-03-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 11 | Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Angkor, Cambodia | 2016-04-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 12 | Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Bagan, Myanmar | 2016-04-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 13 | Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, China | 2016-05-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 14 | Rediscovering Ancient Asia: Jomon Culture, Japan | 2016-05-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 15 | Inside The Tsunami | 2016-05-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 16 | Aid for the Displaced | 2016-05-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 17 | The Phone of the Wind: Whispers to Lost Families | 2016-05-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 18 | Escaping the Fallout: Seven Days Revealed | 2016-06-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 19 | Jakuchu: The Divine Colors | 2016-06-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 20 | Science of Motherhood | 2016-07-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 21 | Radioactive Forest | 2016-07-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 22 | Evolving Artificial Intelligence: Blessing or Curse | 2016-07-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 23 | Decommissioning Fukushima: Removing Nuclear Debris | 2016-07-31 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 24 | Miracle Body: The Revival of Japan's Judo | 2016-08-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 25 | Killer Stress: The Causes | 2016-08-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 26 | Killer Stress: The Remedies | 2016-09-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 27 | Miracle Body: Russia's Golden Mermaids | 2016-09-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 28 | The Last Isolados: Unknown People of the Amazon | 2016-10-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 29 | Road to Redemption | 2016-10-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 30 | Running in God's Territory: Patagonia's Extreme Trail Race | 2016-11-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 31 | Executive Non Decision: A-Bomb History Rewritten | 2016-11-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 32 | Autonomous Driving, The Revolution | 2016-12-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 33 | Ambush in Cambodia: Death of a Japanese Police Officer | 2016-12-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 34 | A Village among Active Faults | 2016-12-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2016 | Episode 35 | Medical Revolution: The Gut Microbiome | 2016-12-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 1 | Secrets of Centenarians | 2017-01-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 2 | China the Great Dragon: Exodus of 100 Million Farmers | 2017-01-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 3 | Onbashira: Mystery behind the Sacred Trees | 2017-01-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 4 | Negotiations on the Northern Territories | 2017-02-12 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 5 | Medical Revolution: Glucose Spike Uncovering a Hidden Threat | 2017-02-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 6 | Decommissioning Fukushima: Ballooning Costs | 2017-02-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 7 | China the Great Dragon: Feeding Personal Wealth to Growth Industries | 2017-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 8 | Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki | 2017-03-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 9 | Inside the KIMDOM: North Korea Exposed | 2017-03-26 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 10 | Precision Medicine: The Cancer Treatment Revolution | 2017-04-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 11 | Bacchan: Granny's Table | 2017-04-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 12 | What You Taught Me About Happiness | 2017-04-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 13 | Money World: Fate of Capitalism - Part 1 | 2017-05-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 14 | Money World: Fate of Capitalism - Part 2 | 2017-05-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 15 | Money World: Fate of Capitalism - Part 3 | 2017-05-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 16 | Moon Bear Chronicle: Unraveling the Mysteries | 2017-06-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 17 | China the Great Dragon: China's E-commerce Revolution | 2017-06-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 18 | China the Great Dragon: Citizens Battle to Clear the Skies | 2017-06-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 19 | The Symbolic Emperor | 2017-07-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 20 | Dad, Are You Watching Us? | 2017-07-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 21 | A Tiny Universe at Our Feet | 2017-07-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 22 | A Mother Panda's Love: The Secret Behind Successful Breeding | 2017-07-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 23 | Japan's Constitution: The Birth of a Peace-Loving Nation | 2017-08-13 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 24 | Discovery of the Century: The Great Dinosaur of Japan | 2017-08-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 25 | Underwater Universe of the Orda Cave | 2017-09-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 26 | Revisiting the Dhaka Terror Attack | 2017-09-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 27 | A Tale of Love and Honor: Life in Gion | 2017-09-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 28 | AI: Into the Real World | 2017-10-08 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 29 | Visualizing Atomic Deaths: New Facts on Hiroshima's Victims | 2017-10-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 30 | Tokyo Black Hole: Year Zero in Post-WWII Japan | 2017-10-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 31 | Unwitting Combatants: The Battle of Karafuto | 2017-10-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 32 | Okinawa's Nuclear Secrets | 2017-11-05 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 33 | Mega Crisis: Skyscrapers in Aseismic Danger | 2017-11-19 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 35 | Mega Crisis: Forecasting Super Typhoons | 2017-12-10 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 36 | Science to the Rescue! The Science of Adolescence | 2017-12-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 37 | Science to the Rescue! The Science of Marital Misunderstanding | 2017-12-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 1 | Unit 731: Elite Doctors and Human Experimentation | 2018-01-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 2 | With Ayumi | 2018-01-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 3 | Kuroshio: Wondrous Current of Life | 2018-02-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 4 | Home Gadgets at Risk | 2018-02-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 5 | Research Misconduct: Japanese Science in Question | 2018-02-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 6 | Wrongful Conviction: 20 Lost Years | 2018-03-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 7 | Lives Shaped by Loss: 23 Years After the Kobe Earthquake | 2018-03-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 8 | China's Westward March | 2018-03-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 9 | River Tsunami: Lessons Seven Years Later | 2018-04-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 10 | Radioactive Forest 2018: Cycle of Contamination | 2018-04-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 11 | Disaster Trauma: Mother-Child Dialogue | 2018-05-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 12 | Meltdown: Cooling Water Crisis | 2018-05-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 13 | Ghost Blood Vessels | 2018-06-03 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 14 | Cryptocurrency War | 2018-07-01 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 15 | Shrinking Japan: Tackling a Worker Shortage | 2018-07-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 16 | Missing Workers | 2018-07-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 17 | THE BODY: Our Remarkable Inner Network | 2018-09-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 18 | THE BODY: Kidneys - Keys to Health and Longevity | 2018-09-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 19 | My Grandfather's War: Battle of Luzon | 2018-09-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 20 | Station Children: Japanese Orphans of WWⅡ | 2018-09-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 22 | THE BODY: Fat and Muscle - Powerful Allies for Health | 2018-10-07 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 23 | THE BODY: Bones - Fountain of Youth and Power | 2018-10-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 24 | THE BODY: Gut - Key to a Healthy Immune System | 2018-10-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 25 | Nebuta 2018: Love and Rivalry | 2018-10-28 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 26 | A Big Circus Family | 2018-11-04 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 27 | THE BODY: Brain - Mechanisms of Inspiration and Memory | 2018-11-11 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 28 | THE BODY: The Beginnings of Life - Prenatal Chats of Mother and Baby | 2018-11-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 29 | THE BODY: Longevity - Secrets of Aging Well | 2018-11-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 30 | Sperm Crisis | 2018-12-02 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 31 | Finding Einstein's Brain | 2018-12-09 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 32 | Hiroshima: Solving the Genetic Puzzle | 2018-12-16 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 33 | AI: Shaping the Future | 2018-12-23 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 34 | Roots of TOKYO: Edo, City of Water | 2018-12-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 35 | Roots of TOKYO: Edo, City of Fire | 2018-12-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 1 | Orcas: Mysterious Gathering at Shiretoko | 2019-01-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 2 | The Choshi River: Seeing the Unseeable | 2019-01-27 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 3 | Tokyo's Lost Islands: Minami Iwo-to | 2019-02-17 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 4 | Tokyo's Lost Islands: Sofugan | 2019-02-24 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 5 | Rescue Triage: Learning from Disasters | 2019-03-30 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 6 | Black Tsunami | 2019-04-14 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 7 | Aurá: Last Survivor of An Unknown Tribe | 2019-04-21 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 8 | Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi: Tackling Nuclear Fuel Debris | 2019-05-18 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 9 | Nobel Laureate Salaryman: Staying Ahead in Science and Technology | 2019-05-25 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 10 | Yui and Bailey the Therapy Dog | 2019-06-15 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 11 | New Roles in a Changing World: The Japan Self-Defense Forces | 2019-06-22 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 12 | AI Robots: Friend or Foe? | 2019-06-29 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 13 | US-China Tech War | 2019-07-06 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 14 | From Despair to Recovery: The Era of Regenerative Medicine | 2019-07-20 | 60 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 15 | Who Will Protect You? Global Warming Unleashes Torrential Rain | 2019-08-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 16 | A Right to the End | 2019-08-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 17 | Death of a Dream: Vietnamese Workers in Japan | 2019-08-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 18 | Han-gure: An Emerging Threat to Society | 2019-09-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 19 | Hyakumikai: A Rare Glimpse into Kyoto's Inner Parlors | 2019-09-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 20 | A New Peace Memorial Museum: Passing on Hiroshima's Message | 2019-09-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 21 | The People and Their Emperor | 2019-10-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 22 | The Fall of Freedom - How a newspaper led Japan to war | 2019-10-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 23 | The Great Metropolitan Blackout: Preparing for Crisis | 2019-11-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 24 | "Death Doulas" for Businesses: End-of-Life Care for Dying Companies | 2019-11-30 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 25 | The Words of Emperor Showa: Records of Imperial Audiences | 2019-12-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 26 | The Supreme Imperial Collection: The Shosoin Treasures and the Birth of Japan | 2019-12-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 1 | The Leonardo da Vinci Enigma: Unraveling the Secrets of Genius | 2020-01-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 2 | My Notebooks: Seven Years of Tiny Great Adventures | 2020-01-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 3 | Living Dementia | 2020-02-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 4 | The Children of the Earthquake | 2020-03-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 5 | The Huawei Shock | 2020-03-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 6 | COVID-19: Fighting a Pandemic | 2020-03-26 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 7 | Invisible Homeless: People Living in Cars | 2020-03-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 8 | The Corona Shock: Can We Avoid an Economic Crisis? | 2020-04-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 9 | The Mystery of the 40-Meter Tsunami: The Great East Japan Disaster | 2020-04-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 10 | COVID-19: Preventing an Explosive Surge of Infections | 2020-04-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 11 | Battle on the Brink: The Coronavirus Crisis | 2020-04-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 12 | COVID-19: Japan Under a State of Emergency | 2020-04-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 13 | The Coronavirus State of Emergency: Medical and Economic Prospects | 2020-05-02 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 14 | COVID-19: Battle on the Cruise Ship | 2020-05-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 15 | Coronavirus: Exit Which Way? | 2020-05-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 16 | COVID-19: Big Data Battles the Virus | 2020-05-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 17 | The Path Forward: Surviving the "With Corona" Era | 2020-06-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 18 | We're In This Together: Life with the pandemic | 2020-06-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 19 | The Iron Road | 2020-06-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 20 | A Fight on Two Fronts: Floods and the Coronavirus | 2020-06-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 21 | COVID-19: The Next Wave | 2020-07-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 22 | Bearman of Hokkaido | 2020-07-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 23 | Deadly Rain: Finding the "Switch" to Save Lives | 2020-07-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 24 | Battling the Virus: On the Front Lines of Medical Care | 2020-07-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 25 | Tokyo Miracle City: Gourmet Capital - Keeping Alive the Spirit of Tsukiji | 2020-08-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 26 | Abe Shinzo Resigns: What Next for Japan? | 2020-09-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 27 | COVID-19 Pandemic: 132 Critical Days (Part 1) | 2020-09-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 28 | COVID-19 Pandemic: 132 Critical Days (Part 2) | 2020-09-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 29 | Civilians in the Crossfire: The Battle of Okinawa | 2020-09-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 30 | Tokyo Miracle City: Gargantuan Rail Network - The Passionate Pursuit of Punctuality | 2020-10-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 31 | Leaving No One Behind | 2020-10-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 32 | Tokyo Miracle City: Anime - Captivating the World Frame by Frame | 2020-10-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 33 | The Battle of Okinawa | 2020-11-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 34 | COVID-19 Pandemic: Transforming the Way We Work | 2020-11-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 35 | Tokyo Miracle City: Shinise - Tokyo's Time-Honored Businesses | 2020-11-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 36 | Hong Kong in Turmoil: A Crisis of Identity | 2020-11-30 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 37 | Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz | 2020-12-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 38 | Digital vs. Real: Infodemic - The Onslaught of Fake News | 2020-12-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 1 | Digital vs. Real: Digital Twin - The End of Privacy? | 2021-01-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 2 | Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan | 2021-01-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 3 | Women's Livelihoods in Crisis: Bearing the Brunt of the Pandemic | 2021-01-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 4 | COVID-19: AI Decodes the Research | 2021-02-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 5 | Miracle Body: Breaking Limits with Hyper-Adaptability | 2021-02-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 6 | Tsuneta Daiki: Creation through Destruction | 2021-02-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 7 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Climate in Crisis - Realizing a Net Zero World | 2021-03-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 8 | Origins of the Pandemic: Part 1 The Beginning | 2021-04-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 9 | Origins of the Pandemic: Part 2 Uncontrolled Spread | 2021-04-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 10 | Myanmar Coup: Digital Resistance | 2021-04-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 11 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Hunger Pandemic - The Catastrophic Cost of Excess | 2021-05-02 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 12 | Voices of the Children: 10 Years After the Disaster | 2021-05-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 13 | Inasa: Whispers on the Wind | 2021-05-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 14 | Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident | 2021-05-30 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 15 | Unknown Stories Revealed by Fixed-Point Cameras | 2021-06-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 16 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Plastic Pollution - The Toxic Cost of Mass Consumption | 2021-06-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 17 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Playing God - Editing the Building Blocks of Life | 2021-07-26 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 18 | TOKYO REBORN: The Metropolitan Expressway - The City's Artery | 2021-08-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 19 | Choose Life: Helping Young People at Risk | 2021-08-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 20 | TOKYO REBORN: Shibuya - Transforming a "Monster" | 2021-09-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 21 | Vision Hackers: Updated Takes on Saving the World | 2021-09-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 22 | Myanmar in Turmoil: The Inside Story on the Military Crackdown | 2021-09-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 23 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: AI Warfare - The Dark Abyss of Autonomous Weapons | 2021-10-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 24 | Who Will Protect You?: Global Warming Unleashes Torrential Rain | 2021-10-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 25 | Prayers for the Pandemic: 1,300 Years of Ritual at Todaiji | 2021-10-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 26 | The Dementia Mentors: Lessons from my Senior Peers | 2021-11-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 27 | The Pride of Yokozuna: Hakuho's Lone Battle | 2021-12-19 | 55 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 1 | The Impact of the EV Shift: Japan's Carmakers at a Crossroads | 2022-01-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 2 | Resurgence of the Seas: Natural Spectacles in Northern Waters | 2022-03-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 3 | Diary of a Nun's Abundant Kitchen | 2022-05-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 4 | Myanmar Conflict: No End in Sight | 2022-06-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 5 | Young Carers: A Silent Cry for Help | 2022-07-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 6 | From Foe to Fortune: Living with Nuisance Wildlife | 2022-08-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 7 | Tracking China's Mystery Ships: The Race for Seabed Supremacy | 2022-09-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 8 | Conveying the Horrors of War: Ukraine's Frontline Journalists | 2022-10-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 9 | Tamahagane: Miracle Steel of Japanese Swords | 2022-10-30 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 10 | 8000 Stolen Futures: The Children at the Center of the A-Bomb | 2022-11-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 11 | Will to Survive: 900 Days in the COVID Ward | 2022-11-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 1 | Hong Kong's Changing Tides: Freedom and Democracy in High Water | 2023-01-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 2 | OSO18 - In Pursuit of a Deadly Bear | 2023-01-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 3 | North Korea: Kim Jong Un's Deepening Radicalism | 2023-02-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 4 | Shining Lives: Living with Developmental Disabilities | 2023-03-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 5 | Humans vs. Wildfires | 2023-03-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 6 | My Mom Has Dementia: A Neuroscientist's Care Diary | 2023-03-26 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 7 | A Nation Built on Trade: Japan in a Deglobalizing World | 2023-04-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 8 | UN Security Council: Battlefield of Words | 2023-04-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 9 | Ukraine under Attack: 72 Hours in the Presidential Office Part 1 | 2023-05-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 10 | Ukraine under Attack: 72 Hours in the Presidential Office Part 2 | 2023-05-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 11 | A Hospital Once Stood by the Sea: 12 Years since the Tsunami | 2023-06-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 12 | Mapping the Recovery: Shoots of Hope in Japan's 2011 Disaster Zone | 2023-07-02 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 13 | Reviving Japan's Economy: Breaking Free of 3 Decades of Stagnation | 2023-08-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 14 | The Devil's Gorge: Mapping No Man's Land in the Himalayas | 2023-10-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 15 | Youth Falling into a Life of Crime | 2023-10-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 16 | The Great Kanto Earthquake - Three Days of Ruin in Tokyo: Part 1 | 2023-11-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 17 | The Great Kanto Earthquake - Three Days of Ruin in Tokyo: Part 2 | 2023-11-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 18 | Mystery Man of the A-Bomb | 2023-12-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 1 | Living as "2nd-Generation" of Religious Devotees | 2024-01-21 | 49 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 2 | INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIONS: The Truth Behind China's Economic Stagnation | 2024-02-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 3 | INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIONS - North Korea's Black Box: Secret Missile Development | 2024-03-31 | 49 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 4 | New Era of J-POP and K-POP: Setting the World on Fire | 2024-04-07 | 49 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 5 | Ukraine's Civilian Soldiers: The War Recorded on Smartphones | 2024-04-14 | 49 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 6 | Justice Redefined: Ukraine's Frontline Journalists | 2024-05-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 7 | This is Our Sea: Fukushima's Fishers after the Nuclear Accident | 2024-05-26 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 8 | Local Officials Speak Out: Remembering the Disaster | 2024-06-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 9 | The H3 Rocket: Flight After Failure | 2024-06-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 10 | Decommissioning Fukushima 2024: Roadmap on the Brink | 2024-06-30 | 49 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 11 | The Missing: Lost Loved Ones with Dementia | 2024-07-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 12 | Chasing Perfection: Four Seasons with Japan's Master Gardeners | 2024-08-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 13 | Kamila Valieva: Despair on the Ice - The Fate of Russian Athletes | 2024-09-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 14 | Sexual Exploitation of Minors Part 1: Japan's Voyeurism Problem | 2024-09-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 15 | Sexual Exploitation of Minors Part 2: The International CSAM Trade | 2024-09-29 | 50 min |