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  • Beauty
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Sauna Wonderland

Kitsuko, a manga artist, is plagued by nightmares. One day, her younger brother said “You have poison in your face” and advised to go to sauna and sweat to get rid of the poison. These words set her boring life in motion and she discovered the pleasures of the water bath. However, Nushi, an old wom...

  • Drama (Series)
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

The Crimes of Those Women

We all want to be happy. This is a story of ordinary women in their mid-thirties, who find themselves at a crossroads in their lives. They all used to be young and shining, but the passage of time robbed them of many things while burdening them with other things. And yet, they keep pursuing their ha...

  • For Women
  • Romance

Sweet Moratorium

Kokoro leads a happy college life dating Sayo who is madly in love with him. Then one day, his ex-girlfriend Ringo shows up. Still seeking some closure after being dumped by her, Kokoro allows Ringo to move in with him without telling Sayo. She learns of it unbeknownst to Kokoro and is wary of Ringo...

  • For Women
  • Romance

BROTHER TRAP

Akari is a college student whose recent breakup has her afraid of taking on new relationships.
That is until love pays her an unexpected visit. She falls for Izumi who surprisingly is not only younger, but also happens to be the kid brother of her ex-boyfriend, Yamato. Akari feels drawn to Izumi f...

  • Entertainment
  • Music

Reversal Orchestra

No matter how dark the world gets, music touches our hearts and uplifts us. Get ready for the beginning of 2023!
A drama series full of powerful orchestra music is about to cheer Japan up!
Hatsune Tanioka is a painfully plain-looking city hall employee. It turns out, however, that she is a former ...

  • Human
  • Romance

Why didn’t I tell you a million times?

When childhood friends Yui and Naoki are by chance reunited as adults, they begin to feel they were destined for each other. However, just as Naoki prepares to propose to Yui, he becomes embroiled in a mysterious incident and dies.
Now Naoki's soul wanders the world unable to express his true feel...

  • Comedy
  • Entertainment
  • Gameshow
  • Quizshow

Instant Faker

The Instant fake battle between the guys have a silver tongue about to begin!
That requires a word sense that goes beyond the truth and a rich imagination!
Four Skilled Liar make them improvise own fake story quiz or two-choice quiz, with cool face.
The prize money goes to the true faker who has ...

  • Entertainment

Ryoff Karma and Maids 呂布カルマとメイドたち

Maid café is a café or restaurant where women work wearing cosplay of maid, which is known as the head of otaku culture. The longest-established and most popular maid café "at-home cafe”seeks their expansion to Nagoya area besides Tokyo & Osaka. A rapper living in Nagoya, Ryoff Karma, will advise wh...

  • Gameshow
  • Quizshow

MEMORIZE THIS!

MEMORIZE THIS! is a whole new mind-bending studio game show to test your short term memory. Two teams of 4 players each face off in crazy memorization-based challenges and the fear of being physically punished in a wide variety of ways makes each stage even more stressful than the last. Whose memory...

  • Drama (Series)

5-Minute Stories with a Twist

Based on a bestselling anthology book series that has sold over 4.3 million copies in total. The collection of very short stories that can each be read in about five minutes. Sci-fi, horror, comedy, fantasy, and more.... The stories cover a wide variety of genres. Each story ends with an unexpected ...

  • Adventure
  • Art
  • Family
  • Fashion
  • Food/Cooking
  • For Women
  • Human
  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Enjoy NIigata's Kingdom

While most people would kick off their Japan adventures in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka – let’s fast forward you to Japan’s most underrated OG gem: Niigata!
Nature-esk Insta-spots…tempting food, drink…
traditional culture… What is Sakeology?
all of this after a 2 hours train ride from Tokyo!

Your J...

  • Quizshow

Quiz Pinch Hitter

A completely new quiz show where the contestants don’t have to answer the question!

In this information society where you can find everything online, we will ask hard questions that cannot be easily answered by searching on the internet or on your smart phones!
Use your network of connections of...

  • Comedy
  • Drama (Series)
  • Human
  • Scripted Format

Pops Loves Kawaii Stuff

Mitsutaka Oji is an attractive hard-working manager, admired by both his superiors and subordinates. Well-mannered, gentlemanly, and stylish to boot, he’s popular among women. However, this man has a secret... He absolutely loves cute things! Mitsutaka can’t resist cuteness, and he’s head over heels...

  • Mystery

The Voice of Sin

35 years have elapsed since the greatest unsolved crime in the postwar era, an incident that involved a threatening phone call captured on tape that featured the “voice of a child.” So where is that child today? The story follows one man who accidentally stumbles upon an old tape recording and disco...

  • Art
  • Human

Eren the Southpaw

Koichi Asakura struggles with the limitations of his own talent but still hangs on to the dream of one day becoming a “somebody.” Meanwhile, Eren Yamagishi is a tremendously gifted artist who must deal with the pain and loneliness that comes from being a genius. These two have a fateful encounter in...

  • Mystery

Innocence, Fight Against False Charges

Handling the most difficult cases with a 100% chance of a guilty verdict, he tries to reverse the wrong convictions.
No one is safe from the terrifying prospect of being falsely accused. You know you are innocent, but you are treated like a criminal. There are countless people just living quite liv...

  • Comedy

Your Home is My Business! -2nd Attack-

Her biggest rival emerges!

It was the summer of 2016 when legendary real estate agent Machi Sangenya suddenly appeared out of the blue and sold tons of homes in ways that were at times heartwarming and at times shocking.

Two years after she disappeared, Machi resurfaces and takes her act to th...

  • Mystery

Your Turn to Kill

Is there someone you want to kill right now?
From work, friends, romance to family, we find ourselves in all sorts of relationships. It is almost certain there are some phrases everybody has said at least once. "I just want to kill that person!" "I wish that person would just die!"

But what if y...

  • Romance
  • Suspense

Juliet In The Rain

Woman with a dark past struggling to find a bright future.
Man with success falling down to the darkness. 
Love suspense story with affection, incrimination, and insanity.

Heroine Hikari's brother had been arrested for murder that made her give up any happiness. Making a living as a cocktail...

  • Scripted Format
  • Suspense

Orphan Black - 7GENES -

The first ever Japanese remake of BBC’s award-winning drama series ‘Orphan Black’. The Korean star, Ji-Young to act 7 different characters!

Sara Aoyama, a broke and desperate single mother who wishes to live with her daughter Moe in peace, witnesses the shocking suicide of a woman who looks just...

  • Nature
  • Travel

Generation gap Tour in Okinawa (Temporary titled)

What will happen if you leave your travel to other’s hand?
Each has his own preference in Travel plan and it reflects your thought, perspective and even view of life. So, following other’s travel plan can give you a new way to enjoy trip that you have never come up with!
There are four people of d...

  • Human
  • Reality

RIKUOH

Dramatization based on the novel “RIKUOH” by Jun Ikeido. Koichi Miyazawa is the CEO of the longstanding company which manufacture tabi(traditional Japanese socks). Due to a decrease of demand for tabi thesedays, the Company, Kohazeya, has fallen upon hard times. For the company's survival, Miyazawa ...

  • Food/Cooking

GOHAN JAPAN

Japan takes great pride in her food culture. Japan, blessed with four distinct seasons, cultivates seasonal food unique to each area of Japan. And at the core of her food culture lies her “food wisdom”.
There is a wide variety of food wisdom across the country that is handed down from generation to...

  • Adventure
  • Nature

Climbing Giants: The Mighty Redwoods

Redwoods are among the world's largest living organisms. Some grow higher than 100 meters and live to be more than 3,000 years old. A belt of redwood forest stretches along the west coast of California in the United States. By using the latest advances in tree climbing, this program reveals an entir...

  • Adventure
  • Nature

Explorers of the Deep: Bahamas Blue Holes

Nearly a thousand caves dot the ocean floor near the Bahamas, southeast of the Florida peninsula. These "blue holes" are limestone caves that have formed over the course of 350,000 years. There's little oxygen in the water in these caves, making it incredibly transparent with an over 100-meter visib...

  • Education
  • Food/Cooking

Japanese Cuisine

This is an educational documentary where the viewer can encounter the charms of rural Japan through the culture of food. Each week a different local TV station produces the show, and introduces their homeland through traditional cuisine, specialties, and new experiments by local chefs and growers. T...

  • Adventure
  • Nature

The Secret Mountain: Papua New Guinea

On New Britain Island in Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific, is one of the most unique, unspoiled jungles in the world. Although it's been extremely difficult for research teams to go into this jungle until now, new explorations have begun to paint an overall picture of the jungle floor. Viewed f...

  • Science

THE NEXT MEGAQUAKE

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  • Comedy
  • Drama (Series)
  • Family
  • Human
  • Romance

MOTHER-IN-LAW VS. DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (the 2nd series)

The showdown between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law at a traditional Japanese inn continues in this series. But this time, “the spirit of good service” bypasses international boundaries as some of the main characters venture to Taiwan.
As wife to the oldest son of the family that owns a traditio...

  • Nature

Prismatic Seas

The coastlines of the Japanese archipelago stretch for a total of 34,000 kilometers. From icy waters to coral reefs and 10,000-meter deep waters, the diverse marine environment can be seen along these coasts. This episode captures the various animals, fish, and birds living along the coasts of the J...

  • Nature
  • Travel
  • Travelogue

Hidden Hot Springs

Japan is known as a paradise for its world famous hot springs. The number of renowned and unrevealed hot springs found throughout Japan is seemingly countless.

This program is divided into two sections, with each section introducing one hot spring inn. The owner of the inn explains the aspects th...

  • Action
  • Detective
  • Drama (Series)
  • Suspense

CODE JAPAN:The Price of Wishes

CODE—a smartphone app that satisfies any desire. But there is a catch: if CODE fulfilled your wish, you must reciprocate by granting a request that CODE sends you. What you receive is a wish of another CODE user. So, in short, CODE is a wish-matching app. If, for instance, you typed in “I want 10,00...

  • Food/Cooking

Japanese Homemade Recipes

This is the longest-running cooking program of TV Asahi reaching its 40th anniversary soon. Masaru Doi, the legendary cook and the father of the current host Yoshiharu Doi, used to say “Love is the best ingredient in homemade cooking”. Yoshiharu inherits this spirit and continues his search for home...