Narrow Escapes of World War II episode 2: In the wake of the humiliation of Pearl harbour, Colonel Jimmy Doolittle was asked to mount an astonishing raid. For the first time ever, bombers would be put onto aircraft carriers and shipped over near Japan. They would then hit Tokyo. The trouble was, the bombers couldn’t land on the aircraft carriers. […]
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 3: The actress heads to the island of Shikoku hoping to gain a better understanding of Japanese Buddhism. She then takes a bullet train to another island – Kyushu – where she finds the Henn Na Hotel, the world’s first robot hotel. At Nagasaki, she visits Shiroyama Elementary school, one of the only buildings to survive
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 2: The actress flies over Tokyo in a helicopter. The city was bombed extensively during the Second World War, so almost all of it is a symbol of the post-war economic boom that saw Japan become the world’s second largest economy. While in the capital, Joanna heads out to a nightclub to see a Japanese girl
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Joanna Lumley’s Japan episode 1: Joanna begins a 2,000-mile journey across Japan in Hokkaido, where she meets one of the most important animals in Japanese culture, the red-crowned crane. She arrives in Sapporo during the middle of the annual Snow Festival and meets members of the local indigenous community, before travelling into the Fukushima exclusion zone and taking a bullet
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Paul Hollywood Eats Japan episode 3: Paul Hollywood’s culinary journey across Japan concludes as he enters a noodle-eating challenge, dines with the largest-ever sumo and goes on an ‘eat-till-you-drop’ tour in Osaka. Paul Hollywood goes on a culinary and cultural road trip across Japan, exploring the extraordinary country through its food and unique eating experiences. Master baker
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Paul Hollywood Eats Japan episode 2: Paul Hollywood continues his culinary journey across Japan. He boards the bullet train, visits Okinawa and gets a cookery lesson from an atomic bomb survivor in Hiroshima. Paul Hollywood goes on a culinary and cultural road trip across Japan, exploring the extraordinary country through its food and unique eating experiences. Master
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Paul Hollywood Eats Japan episode 1: Paul Hollywood begins his culinary and cultural road trip across Japan in Tokyo, where he experiences solo dining and karaoke, and goes on a karting tour dressed as a ninja turtle. From Tokyo to Okinawa, Osaka and more, the British baking superstar eats his way across Japan on his first-ever visit to the culinary
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The Art of Japanese Life episode 3 – Home: In the final episode, Dr James Fox explores the art of the Japanese home. The clean minimalism of the Japanese home has been exported around the world, from modernist architecture to lifestyle stores like Muji. But the origins of this ubiquitous aesthetic evolved from a system of spiritual and philosophical values,
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The Art of Japanese Life episode 2 – Cities: Dr James Fox explores how the artistic life of three great Japanese cities shaped the country’s attitudes to past and present, east and west, and helped forge the very idea of Japan itself. Beginning in Kyoto, the country’s capital for almost a thousand years, James reveals how the flowering
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The Art of Japanese Life episode 1 – Nature: Dr James Fox journeys through Japan’s mountainous forests, marvels at its zen gardens and admires centuries-old bonsai, to explore the connections between Japanese culture and the natural environment. Travelling around Japan’s stunning island geography, he examines how the country’s two great religions, Shinto and Buddhism, helped shape a creative
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Gardens Near and Far episode 8 – Daitoku-ji, Japan: silence, minimalism and symbolic meaning reign in the Japanese Zen garden. Stone lanterns, purifying basins and white rocks and pebbles are meticulously designed and laid out. The monastery of Daitoku-ji consists of a main temple surrounded by 23 sub-temples, separated from the city by an encircling wall. It is
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Chris journeys a thousand miles across Japan to find out if Japanese railways really are the best in the world.
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