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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 ...
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...
The latest woman of the hour comes on Sunday evenings this fall as a detective.
Hisui Jozuka can “see” the culprits with her clairvoyance, but this won’t hold up as evidence. Just how will she solve complex cases?
“I have the ability to know the truth, but why am I so useless?” Hisui, with her g...
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...
“First Kiss Ladies” is a show about 6 women who want to overwrite their first kiss.
They will live under the same roof with Ren and try to capture his heart. The one who manages to do so gets to replace her first kiss. A mockumentary presents fiction as a documentary. As cast members improvise ...
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...
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...
Tokyo. The Akatsuki Special District. This newly created special economic zone was fully controlled by the gigantic Sakishima Holdings conglomerate. Attempts by rival corporations to take advantage of the tax advantages and other regulatory benefits within the zone lead to the massive “Akatsuki Conf...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Splinter - Haruyuki Kuranaga strikes back
Life doesn’t go as you want it to be, but everybody survives a regular life anyway. Life is full of thorns, same as the mind of human. We often fall into difficulties. Those difficulties make us feel worried, anxious and fear. We also swarm around and run away to save themselves Finally we stop figh...
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...
Introducing the best nature, culture, food and lifestyles of the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido. Every week our hosts explore the colorful towns and cities of Hokkaido, to discover their diverse lifestyles and seasonal delights. From deep powder snow to bright flower fields, cherry blossoms ...
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...
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...
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...
"Even if this way is a thorny path, this is my choice. I’ll regret nothing.”
Kiyoko Ranman is a story about a lady who keeps acting with pride as a daughter of Samurai family and her faithful love with her childhood friend.
It’s 1895 and Japan is riding high on the country’s recent victory in the ...
Shima Kosaku's Asian Entrepreneurs
How did Asia's most prominent entrepreneurs know when to grasp opportunities? And how did they overcome difficulties and attain their positions of power? This series uses the unconventional technique of blending actual documentary footage with CG animation to get a close-up look into the front lines...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...