The 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. Carrying the hopes of a nation, Japan’s was seeking its first ever gold medal in the Men’s Large Hill Team event. On the sidelines stood one man who harbored particularly strong emotions toward team ace, Masahiko Harada. That man was former Japan ski jumper, Jinya Ni...
Revue Starlight is a new form of entertainment that fuses musicals with anime. Ever since the project was announced, there have been a wide variety of installments from a musical, anime, comic, smartphone game, to a music group by the nine main cast members: Starlight Kukugumi. And now, a long-await...
Diablo (real name: Takuma Sakamoto) is summoned to a different world as the character he controls inside a game he played. Shera and Rem both claim to be the one who summoned him, and they start to spend their days in this world that looks exactly like the game. He fights an elite force from the kin...
Newlyweds Saki Mizuguchi and husband Koichi Obara have decided that getting married was a huge mistake. They met by chance and had a whirlwind romance, but their lifestyles and values couldn’t be more different. She’s a fashion editor raised in a modern, liberal home. He’s an ace air-rescue pilot fr...
Fashionista Kurumi Mashiba works as a publicist for a popular online home décor company. When she launches a social media account to promote the company, she ends up amassing 100,000 followers and becomes a fashion influencer in her own right. But she’s so wrapped up in work that she forgets to rene...
This drama about what happens when fate and love collide is non-stop entertainment!
Ayako is a gung-ho young detective in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s violent crimes unit who’s eager to make her name. One day she gets her big break: the chance to arrest a murder suspect single-handed....
For Women
Romance
Oh My Boss! Love not included
75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps
オー！マイ・ボス！恋は別冊で
오ー！마이・보스！사랑은 별책으로
Oh My Boss! 戀愛放別冊
75min × 2eps / 60min × 8eps
Don’t miss this heartwarming, madcap romantic comedy!
Nami is an ordinary small-town girl with no special dreams or ambitions, someone who goes along to get along and wants nothing from life but a modicum of happiness. Then she moves to the big city to pursue her childhood crush. In Tokyo she by ch...
Now sidelined due to injury and age, former pro-wrestling star Juichi Miyama was once groomed by his father, Jusaburo, an acclaimed Noh actor and “Living National Treasure,” to be his successor. But the young Juichi rebelled, left home, and cut off ties with his family. Now he’s just learned that hi...
School
Romance
Comedy
The Quintessential Quintuplets 2
30 min.｜12 episodes
They are teenage female quintuplets who hate studying and are at risk of failing their classes. That is until a private tutor, Futaro, appears to help them make it to graduation. Various adventures ensue as the five sisters and Futaro attend a study camp in the woods that ends up deepening their tru...
Missing the last train of the day on Tokyo’s Keio Line at Meidaimae Station, college student Mugi Yamane (Masaki Suda) encounters Kinu Hachiya (Kasumi Arimura). Finding they have near identical tastes in music and movies, the couple quickly hit it off and embark on a romance that has them move in to...
The 2015 best-seller novel by Miu Kakiya has been adapted to film by director Tetsu Maeda (“A Banana? At This Time of Night?”). As of April, 2020, the book has sold over 260,000 copies.
In Japan, it is said you need 20 million yen saved up for retirement. Though everyone has their worries about th...
Many of Oita's tourist attractions are hot springs, like the reddish "Lake of Blood Hell" and a "mud springs" called "Bouzu Hell" where mud bubbles up.
The “Onsen Prefecture” slogan is everywhere in Oita.
Keyword: Beppu,onsen,Oita,Japan,hot spring
In the net drawn up from the sea floor, there are so many kind of fish such as eelpout, shiny red sweet shrimp, and ray. The fishermen spread out the fish on a fish boat.
Keyword: fish, fishery, boat, eelpout, shrimp, ray
You can find rare fish at this conveyor belt sushi restaurant, such as scalpel sawtail, scarbreast tuskfin, and Kamagari.
Kamagari is also called black croaker.
When you open its big "croaker," or mouth, you can see that its mouth is black inside.
Keyword: Conveyor Belt, sushi, fish, rare
This is the campus of Hokkaido University, which first opened its doors in 1876 as Sapporo Agricultural College. Its historic agricultural science department is a flagship institution in Japan with a long history.
Keyword: Hokkaido, University, Sapporo, campus, student
Here in Otofuke Town in Hokkaido, people take advantage of the wide-open area to conduct large-scale agriculture. His tractor and combine have certain modifications to manage a sprawling 99 hectares of farmland.
Keyword: Hokkaido, sugar cane, tractor, farmer, farmland, agriculture
With the equipment incorporating a GPS guidance system into the workflow, a tractor is spraying pesticide in the vast field.
Keyword: tractor, farmer, farmland, agriculture, equipment, technology
These are the croquettes that sell almost 3,000 on a busy day.
Bread crumbs known as Panko cover the batter-dipped patty.
The inside consists of ground meat, mashed potatoes, and minced onions. It looks like the common croquette that you would find anywhere.
Keyword: croquette, cooking, frying,...
They continue to make a limited 200 "Exquisite Croquettes" every day. Changing locations to Mishima City in Shizuoka Prefecture, you would notice that numerous stores have put up a sign that reads "Mishima Croquette" on their storefront as you take a walk in the city. More than a dozen shops sell cr...
Kamaboko is processed fish paste molded into a variety of patties.
At this shop they also sell "oden," a dish where various ingredients are simmered in a broth. It seems unlikely that such a shop would sell croquettes, but here are The Oden Croquette sold for 60 cents each.
This croquette is diffe...
In the process of making frozen udon, a huge freezer comes into play. The udon noodles are placed on serving-size trays, and frozen immediately at minus 35 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
Because the udon is frozen quickly at its best condition, it retains the freshly boiled texture even after defr...
Gyokuro is a green tea of the highest quality started in the late Edo period. Its mellow flavor and aroma made it most popular among lords of the domains, as well as the shogun’s retainers, and it soon became one of the specialties of Edo. It usually serve with Japanese cakes.
Keyword: Gyokuro, ...
Kindai Bluefin Tuna is the farm-raised tuna undertakes by Kinki University students. A ten-minute trip on the water takes us to a large fish pen in the ocean. A peek underwater finds many farm-raised tuna swimming about. There are about 100 tuna in this one cage alone.
Keyword: Kindai Universi...
Nousaku placed his focus on tin, which was said to be too soft
to be used for tableware. If it bends, then use its flexibility as its selling point. It was undoubtedly a turnabout idea.
Keyword: Tin, Tableware, Nosaku
The Oumi-cho market is the locals’ kitchen. There are 183 stalls, selling crab and seafood from the Japan Sea, and local Kaga-brand vegetables.
Keyword: Oumi-cho, Local, Market
Kiki Inoue has lost her bearings in life and works a part-time job in a convenience store. But thanks to an incredible passion for conveniences store sweets, she encounters the manager of a major convenience store with whom she forms a partnership to develop the next big convenience store dessert! T...
This animated series has it all: beauty, spirit, danger, and intrigue.
It's the not-too-distant future. The world faces an imminent danger from mysterious life-forms:"Huge." Forces from around the globe unite, bringing magic and science together to create the ultimate weapon, known as "CHARM." Life...
Toyama bay is known as ‘the natural fish tank‘. Prefectural sushi restaurants have come together to create a sushi brand for Toyama, called ‘Toyama Bay Sushi’. Using only Toyama rice and fish caught in theToyama bay defines the brand.
Keyword: Toyama bay, Sushi
The next food festival we visited was a 'meat festival' that is held in Tokyo.This event is very popular and it drew a record number of 81,000 visitors on a single day.The visitors come to enjoy tasty meat dishes.At this event, 50 famous meat stores from all across Japan open stalls.It caters to mea...
The ship left the port at 2:10 am. After going 15 minutes out at sea, they arrived at the first fishing ground. .In the dark water, they began to collect the fishing nets that were put out the previous day. On this day, they caught a large number of Tachiuo or cutlass fish, a valuable fish.
Ke...
Miso is a fermented food product of soybeans.
Using the power of mold, deeper rich flavor and umami is brought out. In the same way, if you look at the ceiling of the soy sauce storehous you will see that the beams are covered with koji mold. Without this mold, tasty soy sauce could not be produc...
Dried bonito and kelp dashi are the one of techniques to bring out the umami to the maximum. For many years the four tastes of “sweet, sour, bitter and salty” were the basic tastes in the world of cooking. However, in 2002 umami was scientifically proven to be the “fifth taste” and received the at...
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