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| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 2017 | Episode 1 | Painting with Soul | 2017-10-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 2 | Detroit Revealed - My Grandfather John Hersey and America | 2017-10-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 3 | A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda | 2017-10-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 4 | Miatari Finders | 2017-10-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 5 | Legendary Giant Tree of Yakushima | 2017-11-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 6 | Boxing Woman | 2017-12-02 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 7 | An Honest Death - A Palliative Care Doctor's Final Days | 2017-12-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 8 | Fukushima Mothers | 2017-12-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2017 | Episode 9 | Rescuing the Lost Battalion - The Story behind the "Heroes" | 2017-08-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 1 | One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey | 2018-01-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 2 | Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea | 2018-01-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 3 | Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan | 2018-01-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 4 | Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On | 2018-02-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 5 | Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers | 2018-02-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 6 | The Fisherman and the Forest | 2018-03-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 7 | Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons | 2018-03-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 8 | Tsuruko's Tea Journey | 2018-03-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 9 | The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1 | 2018-04-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 10 | The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2 | 2018-04-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 11 | Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder | 2018-06-02 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 12 | Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident | 2018-06-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 14 | Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed | 2018-06-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 15 | I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan | 2018-06-30 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 16 | Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan | 2018-07-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 17 | A Life with Flowers | 2018-07-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 18 | Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe | 2018-08-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 19 | Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods | 2018-08-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 20 | Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors | 2018-09-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 21 | A World of Boisterous Silence | 2018-09-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 22 | Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market | 2018-10-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 23 | China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1 | 2018-10-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 24 | China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2 | 2018-10-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 25 | An 18-Year-Old's Departure | 2018-11-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 26 | The Pianist in the Rubble | 2018-11-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2018 | Episode 27 | Manzanar Revealed | 2018-12-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 1 | A Doctor Beside the Deathbed | 2019-01-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 2 | Epic Challenge: A Race Across the Japanese Alps | 2019-01-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 3 | Reviving Kumamoto Castle | 2019-02-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 4 | Class Struggle: Changes to China's Education System | 2019-02-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 5 | A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather | 2019-03-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 6 | Vessel of Friendship: An Untold Story | 2019-03-30 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 7 | Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 1 | 2019-05-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 8 | Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 2 | 2019-05-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 9 | Split-Screen Documentary: Nuclear Ghost Town - After 8 Years | 2019-05-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 11 | A Journey through Genders | 2019-07-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 12 | Bettering Tibet | 2019-07-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 13 | I too was a Child of Camp. | 2019-08-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 14 | Hope in the Dark | 2019-08-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 15 | The Spirit of Kendo: The Path of No Regret | 2019-09-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 16 | MATAGI - Worshipping Bears | 2019-09-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 17 | Helping Hands - The Lives of Atomic Bomb Orphans | 2019-09-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 18 | The United Red Army: A Troubled Legacy | 2019-09-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 19 | The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 1 | 2019-10-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 20 | The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 2 | 2019-10-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 21 | 1971 - Japanese Rugby Takes On England, And The World | 2019-10-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 22 | Chinese Internet Celebrities: Influencing the Huge Online Market | 2019-11-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 23 | Henoko: Living with an American Base | 2019-11-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 24 | Digging the Untold History | 2019-12-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 25 | No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 1: Clearing Plastic from the Ocean | 2019-12-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2019 | Episode 26 | No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 2: Frontlines of Global Business | 2019-12-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 1 | SAMURAI WALL | 2020-01-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 2 | Repatriation: Resettling in North Korea | 2020-01-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 3 | MIYAKO, The Last Dance | 2020-01-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 4 | 8K Documentary: The Microscopic World of iPS Cells | 2020-01-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 5 | All That Remains | 2020-02-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 6 | Stumbling Toward the Precipice | 2020-02-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 7 | Refugee Heroes: The Road to Tokyo | 2020-02-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 8 | Dignity for All: The Legacy of Sadako Ogata | 2020-04-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 9 | Digital Detectives | 2020-04-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 10 | 10 Years and Beyond: iPS Cells and Kyoto University's CiRA | 2020-05-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 11 | Journalism of Hope | 2020-05-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 12 | OKINA Dance of Life | 2020-05-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 13 | Oswald and JFK Unsolved Cases Part 1: The Pawn | 2020-06-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 14 | Oswald and JFK Unsolved Cases Part 2: The Chessmaster | 2020-06-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 15 | Peace and Justice: The Spirit of Japan's Postwar Constitution | 2020-07-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 16 | Pandemic Diaries: How the Emergency Declaration Affected Us | 2020-08-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 17 | Tsuruko's Tea Journey in Germany | 2020-09-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 18 | Exposing the Coronavirus: Our Invisible Enemy in 3DCG | 2020-09-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 19 | The Shape of Sound: A Piano Paints the Seasons of Nara | 2020-10-02 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 20 | AI vs Pandemic: Part 1 | 2020-10-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 21 | AI vs Pandemic: Part 2 | 2020-10-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 22 | The Lost Textile of Ryukyu | 2020-11-07 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 23 | Poisonous Secrets: What did Japan and the US bury? | 2020-11-14 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 24 | Faces the Special - Voices of Hope for an Inclusive Future - | 2020-11-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 25 | Koza, Okinawa: Base Town Blues | 2020-11-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2020 | Episode 26 | Untold Stories of the Battle of Okinawa: Women and Teens on the Frontline | 2020-12-26 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 1 | 3/11 - The Tsunami: The First 3 Days | 2021-01-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 2 | 3/11 - The Tsunami: The First Year | 2021-01-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 3 | Great Race: You'll Never Run Alone | 2021-01-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 4 | Gifts from a Parent's Deathbed | 2021-02-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 5 | KEN WATANABE - A Compassionate View: The decade since the Great East Japan Earthquake | 2021-03-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 6 | Global Commons Stewardship | 2021-03-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 7 | Generation 3.11: A Decade Journey | 2021-03-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 8 | Fukushima Monologue | 2021-04-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 9 | Enku: The Enigma of a Wandering Sculptor Monk | 2021-04-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 10 | "War Victims Die Twice" | 2021-04-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 11 | Recovery in 300,000 Pictures | 2021-05-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 12 | Hearing the Voice of Nakamura Tetsu | 2021-05-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 13 | Social Media and the Tides of Democracy | 2021-05-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 14 | Eyes in a Crisis | 2021-06-26 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 15 | Seek Nothing, Just Sit | 2021-07-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 16 | The Lifesaving Fuel Train | 2021-07-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 17 | Karl and Tina: Embracing Village Life in Japan | 2021-08-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 18 | A Man Who Aligned Japan with the Nazis | 2021-08-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 19 | Empty Homes, Shattered Dreams: China's "Ghost Castles" | 2021-09-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 20 | We're Not "Gaijin"! | 2021-10-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 21 | A Maiko's Coiffure: Beautiful Ties in Kyoto | 2021-10-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 22 | Sahel Rosa — A War Orphan's Journey | 2021-11-20 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 23 | My School of Many Colors | 2021-11-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 24 | Finding Mr. Kondo: Tracing the Life of a Wartime Illustrator | 2021-12-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 25 | War and Disease: Falling to Malaria | 2021-12-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2021 | Episode 26 | War and Disease: A Vaccine Tragedy | 2021-12-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 1 | Heirs of the Red Gene: A Century of Chinese Communist Rule | 2022-01-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 2 | Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 1 (1928-1937) | 2022-01-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 3 | Emperor Showa Speaks: The Path to War - Part 2 (1937-1941) | 2022-01-15 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 4 | FINDING SATOSHI | 2022-01-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 5 | A Monk's Lessons: Living amid Death from COVID | 2022-02-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 6 | Carbon Farming: A Climate Solution Under Our Feet | 2022-02-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 7 | Reviving Tezuma: Japan's Traditional Magic | 2022-02-26 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 8 | The Unknown Master of Restoration | 2022-03-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 9 | Fukushima Monologue II | 2022-03-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 10 | Fukushima: The Curse of Groundwater | 2022-04-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 11 | Ukraine: Prelude to a Crisis | 2022-05-28 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 12 | Rainbow Family | 2022-06-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 13 | A Teacher's Life Lesson | 2022-06-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 14 | Karl and Tina: Village Life in the Deep Snow | 2022-06-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 15 | Daily Life in Times of War | 2022-08-06 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 16 | Kyiv, the Resistance of Citizens | 2022-08-13 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 17 | Art of the Inland Sea | 2022-08-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 18 | Art is Our Voice | 2022-10-01 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 19 | Land of Rising Dreams? | 2022-10-08 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 20 | Karl and Tina: Bountiful Autumn in the Village | 2022-10-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 21 | Mississippi Revealed | 2022-10-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 22 | JAPAN-NORTH KOREA SUMMIT: Behind the Curtain | 2022-11-12 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 23 | Mountainous Traditions | 2022-11-19 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 24 | OKINAWA'S RETURN: 50 YEARS ON - Islands at Odds with Peace & Security - | 2022-12-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 25 | Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 1 | 2022-12-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 26 | Poet of the Piano Fuzjko Hemming: On a Journey to Chopin's Mallorca | 2022-12-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 27 | Stopping the Next Pandemic: The Virus Hunters' Mission - Part 2 | 2022-12-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2022 | Episode 28 | Danjuro: A Kabuki Star for Three Centuries | 2022-12-31 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 1 | Where Will Divided America Go from Here? US Midterm Elections 2022 | 2023-01-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 2 | The Red Way: The Making of a Third Term | 2023-02-04 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 3 | A Voice to the Voiceless | 2023-02-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 4 | Why I'm at War | 2023-02-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 5 | End-of-Life Guardians | 2023-03-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 6 | Raising a Family on Cat Island | 2023-03-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 7 | Blues from the Obscure | 2023-03-18 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 8 | Steve Jobs and Japan | 2023-03-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 9 | TOKYO SCANNING | 2023-03-25 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 10 | Taiwan's Windy Frontline Islands | 2023-03-26 | 49 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 11 | Voices of Tohoku: What We Want From Reconstruction | 2023-04-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 12 | A Director's War | 2023-04-22 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 13 | Return to an Abandoned Village: 50 Years in Tsubayama | 2023-04-29 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 14 | ISSEY MIYAKE: The Human Inside the Clothes | 2023-05-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 15 | Prayers of a Thousand Years | 2023-06-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 16 | Women on the Front Line: 15% of Japan's Politicians | 2023-06-10 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 17 | The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 2 | 2023-06-17 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 18 | Ukraine's Nuclear Dilemma | 2023-08-05 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 19 | Staging Shared Memories - Yu Miri and Young Fukushima Actors - | 2023-09-09 | 49 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 20 | On the Frontlines of Myanmar's Civil War | 2023-09-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 21 | Walking a Tightrope: The Filmmaker Yang Yonghi | 2023-10-21 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 22 | The Day I Gave Up My Daughter | 2023-11-11 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 23 | Piano Girl | 2023-12-09 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 24 | The Falconer's Legacy | 2023-12-16 | 50 min |
| Season 2023 | Episode 25 | Finding My Mirror | 2023-12-23 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 1 | Karl and Tina: Season's Greetings from a Wintry Village | 2024-01-27 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 2 | The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 3 | 2024-02-03 | 49 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 3 | Home is Where the War is | 2024-02-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 4 | The Rise and Fall of a Crypto Star | 2024-03-03 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 5 | A Fukushima Photo Album | 2024-03-24 | 50 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 6 | The Japanese Dream: Nepali Students in Japan | 2024-03-30 | 49 min |
| Season 2024 | Episode 7 | Aso Jinja: A Shinto Shrine Rises from the Rubble | 2024-03-31 | 49 min |