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JAPAN VIDEO TOPICS Title/ Description Length Mogami Beni - Color of Mystery 4'32" Omakase - The Art of Trust 4'32" September The Furure of 2020 No.1 Entertainment Ai Brings Back the "God of Manga" 4'44" Endlessly Useful - Tenugui Towels 4'17" The Lucky Cat 4'31" Recolution in Bone December Regeneration 2019 No.4 4'14" Working Out to the Radio 4'10" Restoring a Region's Symbol Kumamoto Castle 4'32" Peaches From Fukushima 4'15" Fireworks - Traditional Skills in October 2019 a modern Entertainment 4'23" No. 3 Innovative Underground Cycle Parking 4'34" Sunset over Izumo 4'22" Yokohama - A City and its Sea 4'38" Sanuki Kagari Temari - Embroidered Hand August 2019 Balls 4'23" No. 2 Japanese Engineering for the Gold 4'27" Ekiben - Boxed Lunches for Train Travel 4'28" Manga - Unleashing Your Inner Artist 4'11" June 2019 A Paper Revolution No.1 4'22" Osaka's Newest Art Scene 4'19" Karate 4'27" Dainichido Bugaku - A 1300 year old Dance Tradition 4'43" Cute Smartphone November Trends 3'49" 2018 No.4 A Special Eye for Quality at Toyosu Fish Market 4'17" Wooden Buildings That Won't Burn 4'04" Enjoying the Autumn Colours 4'37" Arimatsu Shibori Tie-Dyeing 4'44" February Staying on 2019 No.5 Shodoshima Island - An Inviting Labyrinth 4'24" Ultra-Small Water Power Generator 4'41" Scanning History's Secrets 5'49" Hidden Flavour in Japanese Cuisine November 4'01" 2018 No.4 A Renaissance in Silk 4'27" Karuta - A Japanese Card Game 4'26" Life with Virtual Companions 4'42" The Goldfish Lanterns of Yanai October 2018 4'31" No.3 "Washi" Masking Tape 4'23" High-Tech Textiles Fight Fatigue 4'08" Japan Points the way to Better Safety 4'16" Japan's Most Faithful Dogs - The Akita Inu 4'17" August 2018 No.2 Iizuka City and Wheelchair Tennis From Rehab to World Sport 4'27" Japanese Ultra- Precision Spring Technology 4'38" Wagashi as Performance - From Artisan to Artist 3'20" Never Too Old - Seniors Master Digital Technology 4'42" June 2018 Kamaishi's New No.1 DVD Alloy Cobarion Transforming the Biomedical World 4'11" Runners on Patrol - Keeping Suburban Streets Safe 3'44" Medals with Memories - Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 4'19" A Feast for the Eyes - Sushi Rolls for Celebrating March 2018 4'19'' No.6 DVD The way of the Ninja - An Art for Living 4'28'' Clean Energy in Snowy Niseko 4'22'' Kumamoto's Blue Bags - A Symbol of Resilience 4'33'' Ichida kaki - the January 2018 sweeet taste of No. 5 DVD dried persimmons 4'44'' Welcome to the World of Cosplay 4'40'' New Life for an Old Wisteria 4'27'' More than 300 high-speed Shinkansen trains are in service in a single day. The inside of the Shinkansen cars are meticulously December Jikabuki - 300 clean. It is the cleaning team that makes this possible. A Shinkansen’s average stop time is 12 minutes. It takes five minutes 2017 No.4 Years of Amateur for passengers to get on and off. Once all the passengers have gotten off, there is only seven minutes to completely finish DVD Theater 5'00" cleaning the cars and taking out the garbage. Here we show how the Shinkansen cars are cleaned, which is attracting attention from overseas as the seven-minute miracle. We use condiments and dressings every day during meals. A lot of thought is put into the containers that hold them. There is Learning about Life a cap that can be easily opened using little force, even by the elderly. A food package has also been developed that retains with Robots 4'51" the freshness of soy sauce, and is easy to use. Japanese food containers continue to be innovated to make them easier to open, easier to use, and make what they hold more delicious. Yuru Sports - A The B-1 Grand Prix event gathers together groups from around Japan that conduct community PR activities to revitalize their Laid-back towns through cooking and serving local specialties. The group Towada Barayaki Seminar from the town of Towada in Approach 4'35" Aomori Prefecture won second place in the 2013 B-1 Grand Prix. High school students work together with the adult members of this group in activities to build excitement for their town. We take a closer look at what they are doing. Pacific saury have long been known to be attracted to light at night. Now the fishing methods used to catch Pacific saury are Your Face is Your undergoing dramatic change. Fishermen are switching to blue-green LED lights from the conventional fishing method of using ID 4'07" incandescent lights. The blue-green LED lights reduce energy consumption and improve the efficiency of the fishermen’s work. In addition, LED lights allow the Pacific saury to be caught without damaging their scales. The fishing industry revolution led by LED lights has only just begun. A Seven- Minute This sport is called Sports Chanbara, or spochan for short. Created about 40 years ago in Japan, Spochan is a safe sport where 2013/2014 Miracle! The competitors use equipment filled with air. Matches are held with participants wearing padded helmets and using swords of No 5 Shinkansen Cleaning various lengths. Competitors face off against others with swords of the same length. A win is scored when a sword touches DVD Format Theatre 3'25" any part of the opponent’s body. The Sports Chanbara Association is seeking to increase its popularity internationally with the aim of ultimately making it an official Olympic sport. Each day the people of Japan use a pair of stick-shaped implements known as hashi, or chopsticks to eat. Chopsticks are also Becoming more used in other countries of Asia, but it is thought that Japan is one of the only places where only chopsticks are used when useful: innovation eating. Accompanying the growing global interest in Japanese cuisine, more and more people around the world are taking an food containers 3'35" interest in chopsticks from Japan. This is all the more reason why it is important for the people of Japan to learn about chopsticks and how to use them correctly. Japanese farmers do most work by hand. Many farmers are of advanced age, however, and this work can be gruelling. To solve this problem, devices have been designed to make the work of farmers easier. This is a powered suit designed for High School agricultural work. These suits are capable of holding a farmer's arm in a fixed position or lifting heavy items with half the Students' Challenge! amount of power normally required. These powered suits have been developed with cutting-edge technology to ease the 3'45" lives of farmers in Japan. If they find traction and spread around the world they can surely do the same for farmers everywhere. This is Ise Jingu, located in Ise City, Mie Prefecture. This shrine, with its distinguished history, has long been visited by many LED Fishing Lights: people over the centuries. Every 20 years, the shrine pavilion is rebuilt, the contents moved to or recreated in the new Revolutionising the structure. This practice is called Shikinen Sengu and has taken place for the past 1300 years. One objective behind this is to fishing industry 3'57" pass on traditional shrine carpentry knowhow to future generations. The kigumi construction technique does not use nails. This process helps to transmit traditional Japanese construction techniques to future generations to ensure that this wisdom accrued over 1300 years will be carried on into the future Japanese gardens express nature using seasonal colors from planted trees, rocks, and ponds. They are a leading symbol of 2013/2014 What is Spochan? Japanese culture. Eleventh-generation gardener Jihei Ogawa from Kyoto is one of the Japanese Landscape Gardeners who No 4 3'30" performs the planning, maintenance, and carries on the ancient tradition of landscape gardening, as well as teaching the DVD Format techniques he has learned to the next generation. It is the daily maintenance that produces a feeling of comfort similar to being in nature, and gives Japanese Landscape Gardens their universally appealing beauty. Japanese towns feature many unique cafés and bars that are distinctly Japanese. A cat café on a busy downtown street. Chopstick culture in People come here who cannot keep cats. At a sewing machine café, people come who want to make various clothing using a Japan 3'23" sewing machine. People gather at train bars who like trains. Japan’s cafés and bars are sure to continue evolving as people’s interests diversify. The Japanese Crested Ibis. Its scientific name is Nipponia nippon. This bird holds a special place in the hearts of Japanese people. However, this bird went extinct in Japan. Efforts are underway to bring the Japanese Crested Ibis back. The Japanese Powered suits Crested Ibis is being brought back in Sado City, located on an island in the Sea of Japan. This Japanese Crested Ibis helping farmers 3'56" Conservation Center breeds and protects the birds. Furthermore it trains them to live in the wild, and then releases them. Currently, as of 2013 there are about 80 Japanese Crested Ibises living in the wild. Ise Jingu Shikenen In Japan, the land of the robot, development of robots that focus on communication is advancing in a number of ways. There Sengu are robots that take part in experiments in conversation with an astronaut on a spacecraft, robots that connect hospitals and Reconstructing homes, and robots that communicate with the elderly at facility homes.
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