
Home Ground
Date de parution : 25 avril 2016
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Painting with Soul The "To-Kon Painters" add color to the lives of people who are short on cash. They're volunteers who will travel anywhere for a good cause, painting... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Detroit Riot, 50 Years On American journalist John Hersey (1914-1993) opened the eyes of much of the world to the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In this... |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda makes ultra-detailed drawings with the fine tip of a single pen. As a resident artist at a museum in the U.S. state of... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Miatari Finders n search of wanted criminals, the Japanese police have a secret weapon they use when all other investigative methods fail: miatari finders. In this... | |
![]() | Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Legendary Giant Tree of Yakushima In ancient times, Japan was once covered with trees. Traces of this primordial forest still remain in the deep, untouched woods of Yakushima Island,... |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Boxing Woman Fiona is a senior account manager for a company in Shanghai that promotes overseas luxury brands. Her days are occupied with international client... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 7 | An Honest Death - A Palliative Care Doctor's Final Days It all began with an unusual request: "Could you film everything about me until I die?" Masahiro Tanaka was a palliative care doctor and Buddhist... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Fukushima Mothers 3 Japanese mothers who lived through the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture make a special trip to the eastern European country of Belarus.... | |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey Photographer Yoshikazu Shirakawa traveled the untouched corners of the world as part of a lifelong quest to rediscover the planet. At 82 his final... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea Fusako Kunita is a 102-year old Japanese woman who has lived on the Korean Peninsula for more than 70 years. Like many other Japanese women who... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan The United States dominates the world in airpower. Behind the birth of the US Air Force is a little-known story about the deadly firebombing... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On During the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, an overwhelming number of people were slaughtered in ethnic conflicts between the Tutsi and Hutu. Rwanda has... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers 72 years after the end of World War Ⅱ, a group of about a dozen people visited Japan. They were born and raised in Vietnam yet consider Japan their... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 6 | The Fisherman and the Forest On March 11, 2011, a huge tsunami generated by the Great East Japan Earthquake struck Japan's northeastern coast, including Kesennuma in Miyagi... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons Setsuko Thurlow was 13 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Horrific scenes of pain and destruction were burned into her memory. She moved... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 8 | Tsuruko's Tea Journey In one form of the Japanese tea ceremony, the host serves traditional kaiseki cuisine, sake and finally tea to the guests. The ritual, established... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 9 | The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1 Going quicker, farther, and striving for more. Since when have we been living in this kind of world? We can't do without it. We can't stop it. The... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 10 | The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2 In the second half of our 2018 special look at capitalism, we delve into the source of humans' greed, the driving force behind capitalism. What... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 11 | Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder In August 2007, 31-year-old Rie Isogai was brutally killed by 3 men who met online, in a case called the Underground Website Murder. After Rie's... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident In 1998, 4 innocent people lost their lives when arsenic was mixed into curry served at a summer festival, in what is known as the Wakayama Curry... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 13 | A Single Pen: The World of Artist Manabu Ikeda Japanese artist Manabu Ikeda makes ultra-detailed drawings with the fine tip of a single pen. As a resident artist at a museum in the U.S. state of... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 14 | Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic bombing. Yet some trees survived, brought back life and gave people hope. NY Artist, Cannon... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 15 | I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan Japan is a psychiatric hospital superpower. About 20% of all the psychiatric hospital beds in the world are concentrated in Japan, where many... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 16 | Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan "Shoe Dog", the memoir by Nike founder Phil Knight, has been an unexpected hit in Japan. It candidly talks about how more than 40 years ago,... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 17 | A Life with Flowers There is a 15-hectare flower park on the island of Nokonoshima, 2km offshore in Hakata Bay in southwestern Japan. The park was created by a... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 18 | Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe Nearly 70 years ago, an American named Floyd Schmoe arrived in the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima on a mission of peace. Over 5 years, Schmoe, a... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 19 | Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods Mt. Ishizuchi, the highest peak in western Japan, has been venerated by local residents for centuries. A sea of clouds often envelopes its soaring... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 20 | Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors American writer Susan Southard's Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War has garnered wide acclaim. The book project developed from the author's encounter... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 21 | A World of Boisterous Silence Children who cannot hear learn through sign language at Meisei Gakuen, a school in Tokyo. Their small hands weave together many words. With no... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 22 | Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market Behind the big city glamour of Shen Zhen, China, lie its back alleys, stretching out from the job allocation office of the San He Labor Market.... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 23 | China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1 Beijing is staging the largest-ever relocation policy by moving entire remote villages to suburbs near cities to solve poverty. Many villagers are... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 24 | China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2 Beijing is staging the largest-ever relocation policy by moving entire remote villages to suburbs near cities to solve poverty. Many villagers are... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 25 | An 18-Year-Old's Departure 7 years after the Great East Japan Earthquake, actress Alice Hirose visits Otsuchi Town in Iwate Prefecture. She meets a father and son who lost 4... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 26 | The Pianist in the Rubble Aeham Ahmad was born and raised in Syria. Even during the civil war, he never stopped playing the piano and singing. Sharing his musical gifts... |
![]() | Saison 2 - épisode 27 | Manzanar Revealed 120,000 Japanese Americans, born free and equal, were stripped of their basic human rights and imprisoned during WWII without any judicial procedures.... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 1 | A Doctor Beside the Deathbed 80-year-old Dr. Kobori is as old as many of the people he cares for. Every day, he visits his elderly patients at their homes, offering advice and... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Epic Challenge: A Race Across the Japanese Alps The Trans Japan Alps Race is an intense run through the massive mountain ranges that cut across Japan's main island. This 415km ultramarathon, which... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Reviving Kumamoto Castle In 2016, a series of destructive earthquakes struck Kumamoto Prefecture in southwestern Japan. When seen from afar, badly damaged Kumamoto Castle is... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Class Struggle: Changes to China's Education System China's education system is undergoing enormous change. Many are unhappy with a decades-long focus on rote learning designed to help students pass... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 5 | A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather To American photojournalist Regina Boone, her paternal grandfather was an enigma. He was a hard-working Japanese immigrant but was arrested on the... |
![]() | Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Vessel of Friendship: An Untold Story In 1855, a schooner departed from the Izu Peninsula, and set sail towards Russia. Newly-discovered documents tell an untold story of friendship... |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 1 On March 11th, 2011, a huge earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan. Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant soon went... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 8 | Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 2 On March 11th, 2011, a huge earthquake and tsunami struck northeastern Japan. Three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant soon went... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 9 | Split-Screen Documentary: Nuclear Ghost Town - After 8 Years THEN and NOW meet in this first-ever "split-screen documentary" about the town of Namie in Fukushima Prefecture, devastated by the 2011 earthquake,... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 10 | A Life with Flowers There is a 15-hectare flower park on the island of Nokonoshima, 2km offshore in Hakata Bay in southwestern Japan. The park was created by a... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 11 | A Journey through Genders 24-year-old Takamasa Kobayashi has been trying to find his true gender since childhood. Born as a girl, he was one of the first students in Japan to... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 12 | Bettering Tibet The largest Buddhist academy in the world lies deep in the mountains of the Chinese province of Sichuan. Larung Gar is a holy place of Tibetan... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 13 | I too was a Child of Camp. A third-generation Japanese-American, Satsuki Ina, was born in 1944, Tule Lake internment camp during World War II. Her experiences there shaped her... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 14 | Hope in the Dark During World War II, more than 20,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly relocated in Canada. Many of them were interned in camps set up in a... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 15 | The Spirit of Kendo: The Path of No Regret Hidehisa Nishimura is a national champion of kendo - one of Japan's traditional martial arts. His signature move is the so-called "Lightning Kote."... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 16 | MATAGI - Worshipping Bears Since ancient times, mountain people known as "matagi" have supported themselves in the snow country of Japan by hunting bears. One of the last... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 17 | Helping Hands - The Lives of Atomic Bomb Orphans Some 6,500 children are believed to have lost their parents when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Prefecture in 1945. Many... |






































