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180 days of struggle by a female master brewer

Hiroshima is counted as one of Japan's three major sake breweries. However, the sake industry is in a predicament due to COVID-19 pandemic and a series of natural disasters. The long-established sake brewery in Higashi-Hiroshima, led by Miho Imada, a female toji (master brewer) who was selected as o...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Moco's Travel Kitchen Season 2

Mocomichi Hayami, also known as Moco in his fast-selling cookbooks, is a prominent actor starring in “This Guy is the Biggest Mistake of My Life” and many other top-ranked Japanese dramas. The friendly hunk is also a serious chef, winning the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards' Japanese cooking category...

  • Art
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Nature
  • Travel

Shaved Ice Street

National Board of Regional Visual Industry Associations “Grand Prix 2022”

Okazaki City is located in the center of Aichi Prefecture. Okazaki City is famous for its unexplored and wonderful water.
Okazaki Shaved Ice Street is lined with stores where you can enjoy delicious shaved ice made with su...

  • Adventure
  • Education
  • Family
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Human
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

The Natural Lifestyle Special

This
is a show for outdoor lovers!
The popular section
“The Natural Lifestyle” that is being broadcast
on Niigata's information program “Evening Wide Niigata Ichiban”
has been made into a series.
Introducing seasonal trekking, apprentices who live with nature,
apprenticeships, rice planting, ...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Wa! Journey! Discover JAPAN PRIDE

“Made in Japan” is Japan’s pride. On the background, the uniqueness of Japan such as the craftsman commitment, the blessings of nature and the technology have a worldwide reputation.
In this program, reporters set off on a journey to discover the JAPAN PRIDE. They find the charm of Japanese product...

  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Family
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Nature
  • Travel

The Natural Lifestyle

This is a show for outdoor lovers!
The popular section “Natural” that is being broadcast on Niigata's information program “Evening Wide Niigata Ichiban” has been
made into a series.
Introducing seasonal trekking, apprentices who live with nature,
apprenticeships, rice planting, harvesting rice, ...

  • Adventure
  • Entertainment
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Nature

TEPPEN MESHI!!

This is an outdoor document variety program about a famous voice actor “Shimba Tsuchiya”
climbing a mountain to the top and cooking a meal!
Before becoming a voice actor, he studied about acting, so he has strength and energy and
good athletic abilities. This is first time for him to climb a mou...

  • Family
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • For Women
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Hokkaido style

A female reporter goes out for a short trip in Hokkaido.
This program is good for adults who wants to make their travel special, slow, relaxing and comfortable.

  • Education
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Travelers insights @ Nagoya

A number of travelers are coming to Japan. We are discovering the attractiveness of Nagoya city by interviewing these travelers.
What the travelers saw in Nagoya?

多くの観光客が訪れる日本。東海地方にもインバウンドの波がきている。そこで外国人観光客へのインタビューを通して、名古屋の魅力を発見する。彼らの目に名古屋はどう映っているのか!?

  • Education
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Human
  • Nature
  • Science

MY SECOND HOME IN HOKKAIDO

A heartwarming documentary to show how people connect the hearts between rural and urban.
Tokachi, eastern Hokkaido, is known as Japan’s largest farming area producing wealthy agricultural, dairy, and husbandry items. In this decade, farmers in Tokachi have been hosting more than 20,000 ...

  • Art
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Travel

Sake Breweries Appetizer

Japan’s culture lies in Sake production. Blessed with quality water and a climate that is very suitable for rice growing, Japan has been producing Sake from rice since for more than a millennium. In this series, we visit sake brewries (Shuzo) around Japan that continues to carry traditional methods...

  • Comedy
  • Entertainment
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Travel

Udo-chan’s Trip Special 2019

Udo-chan travels around Mino city in Gifu prefecture with a popular Japanese actor, Koji Yamamoto, and a former member of AKB48, Kayo Noro. They take a train on Nagara-gawa line and walk around wherever they wish.
Mino city is famous for some traditional craft; one of them is edged tools like “Kat...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Wild Taiyaki

Have you heard of a Japanese dessert, Taiyaki?
Taiyaki (literally "grilled sea bream" - seabream is supposed to bring happiness), is a small waffle-like cake filled with a sweet red bean paste. It is said that there are “wild” Taiyaki and “farmed” Taiyaki. When making regular Taiyaki, the pan used...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Green Tea Stories From Shizuoka Part2 ~The Future and Beyond~

This documentary focuses on green tea from Shizuoka.
Shizuoka produces and consumes the most amount of green tea in Japan.
Especially in spring, they can enjoy the verdure of tea estate and delicious green tea.
This show follows the charms of green tea, new challenges of tea-making wholesalers an...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • History
  • Nature

Japan, Thousand Year of Soup Stock

This is an amazing food documentary to show thousand-year history of soup stock. The soup stock is the fundamental essence in Japanese dishes, and kombuor sea kelp, harvested in the northern sea of Hokkaido is known as the best ingredient for the stock. Now a days, the sea kelp is used not only for ...

  • Art
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Wonder Box!Shikoku The excellent one in Kochi Ⅱ

This program introduces Kochi's excellent works and taste.

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Green Tea Stories from Shizuoka Part.1 ~Challenging Farmers To Improve Green Tea’s Prestige~

This documentary focuses on green tea from Shizuoka.
Shizuoka produces and consumes the most amount of green tea in Japan.
Today, the green tea industry in Japan is facing extreme difficulties. The price of tea remains low, tea farmers are aging and it’s hard to find successors. This program intro...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Science

NIPPON TV NEWS 24

A diverse and unique selection of the latest news from Nippon TV's nationwide affiliate stations.

✓ Regular news- 30sec to 1 min
✓ Special reports- 5 to 6 min 
✓ One week compilation -5 to 10 min

And flexible customization of news items to meet client needs.

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Shizuoka Locak Sake Part 1 & 2

Drinking sake is a trend all over the world.

This TV show focuses on Jizake (local sake) and Ginjo-shu (premium sake).
Shizuoka prefecture, located in the center of Japan, is a beautiful place home to Mount Fuji and the Southern Alps. There, sake rice is grown using water from those mountains. T...

  • Art
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Family
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Footage
  • History
  • Reality

The Wisdom of Washoku

Chapter One : Washoku Origins
Chapter Two : Wanmono (Bowl Dish)
In 794, Japan’s capital was moved to Kyoto.
It remained the capital for more than a millennium.
The diverse food culture of the Imperial family and nobility is still in evidence today.
The origins of washoku are honzen, shojin and ...

  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Family
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • History
  • Human
  • Reality
  • Travel

Witness "F"

The documentary program that focused on Fukuoka and Saga is Witness "F".
People's lives, incidents, disasters, welfare.
We deeply explain various themes deeply and politely.

专注于福冈和佐贺的纪录片节目是见证人“F”。
人民的生命,事件,灾难,福利。
我们深刻而礼貌地深入解释各种主题。

福岡や佐賀を焦点に制作したドキュメンタリー番組がWitness "F"です。
人々の生活、事件、災害、福祉。
様々...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

Lunch On!

[TREASURE BOX JAPAN|miptv2015 Format]
You are what you eat!
By late morning, the sound of growling tummies can distract even the hardest workers. But take a look around, and you’ll find that everyone has a unique lunch routine. In NHK’s "Lunch On!", you‘ll get to see the what, how, and where of ...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Nature

Harvest! -Specialities of Niigata-(Japanese Title : 食彩の詩 season2 総集編)

This program will introduce you agricultural products and livestock products in Niigata with the voices of farmers who respect for nature.It also presents you special cooking recipe.
For example,Yukishita-Ninjin (carrots under the snow), farmers in Tsunan town forgot to harvest one fall. After snow...

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  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Travel

MADE IN KYOTO

Kyoto's allure lies not only in its shrines and temples or the elegance of the city.
For more than a millennium since the year 794, Kyoto flourished as the capital, leading the way in the arts, architecture and commerce. The essence of Japanese culture was born in Kyoto, and has been refined and pa...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Human

SAMURAI Chef Documentary

Takeshi Akiyama, owner&chef,grew up in the TSUBAME-SANJO area in Niigata. He proud of his hometown and this is reflected in his choice of locally sourced ingredients, as well as quality tableware also manufactured in TSUBAME-SANJO.
He hopes success in TOKYO helps to promote the many special quolity...

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  • For Women
  • History
  • Human
  • IT/Robot
  • Medical/Health
  • Music
  • Reality
  • Science
  • Sports

The Leader

Corporate and organization leaders are said to be loners.
They also seem to be unapproachable.
However, we want to know more about them, about goals they set, and how they tackle difficult decisions.
“The Leader” features a leader each time, and the documentary reveals a side of them never seen i...

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  • Human
  • IT/Robot
  • Medical/Health
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Sci-Fi
  • Sports

Passionate People

By closely covering the daily lives and activities of the "passionate people," this 25-minute documentary depicts the charm and real self of an athlete, a performer, a musician, a scholar and many other who are active in the front lines.

Marie Kondo, Organizing Consultant
Author of the best-sell...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

SAKABA: Bar Hopping Report by Rui Yoshida

This is a unique program that introduces “izakayas” (Japanese-style bars) in downtown Tokyo, where “any adult can drop by alone when ever he feels like it.” One izakaya began as a food stall 80 years ago, another one serves raw pork guts… Every izakaya serves its own unique variety of Japanese sake ...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Human
  • Reality
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

A Taste of Life in Kyoto

Award-Winning Drama about Unknown Kyoto

This is a drama that allows you to enjoy Kyoto's restaurants that are not on tourist guides and that only Kyoto residents know about. Kana, a Tokyo resident, happens to stay in Kyoto for a short period of time. Kana visits real stores day after day and disc...

  • Entertainment
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  • Food/Cooking
  • Human
  • Sports
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Grand Tour Setouchi 2019: Shimanami with Photogenic Spots

The “Shimanami Kaido” expressway connects Onomichi City in Hiroshima Prefecture with Imabari City in Ehime Prefecture. This seafaring road bridges islands together and is famous worldwide as a premier route for cycling! In this program, an actress Haruhi Ryoga and other TV performers will report on ...

  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

TALES OF SAKE

Japanese Sake is the gift of brewer's soul and the history/tradition of each regions in Japan. WOWOW's documentary series "TALES OF SAKE" tells the hidden stories of the birth of premium sake, focusing on the brewer's drama and the beautiful landscapes.
How was the finest premium sake produced? W...

  • Entertainment
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking

THE FIRST RECIPE

There is a huge number of ingredients in the world.
What we usually eat is just a small part of them…
In this show, great chefs cook unknown ingredients that they have never seen.

The ingredient looks/tastes strange. The chef is firstly surprised at such an unknown, but gradually grasps its fea...

  • Entertainment
  • Family
  • Food/Cooking
  • Food/Cooking
  • Idol
  • Nature
  • Reality

嗚呼!NGT48らーめん部

Local idle, NGT48 introduces Ramen within 7 min!
Use only a small camera, NGT48 do all things on their own! Any chance they manage all tasks for 7 min?!

部員が新潟のラーメンを自撮り7分で紹介!使用する撮影機材は手持ちサイズのカメラ1台のみ!オープニングから店紹介、さらには食レポに至るまで、全てがNGT48らーめん部のメンバー自身による“オール自撮り”の番組です!県内の魅力的なラーメン店を1話あたり1軒ずつ紹介していきます。ただし…カメ...