Japanese Documentaries

Japanese Language Listening
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It kinda felt apt to watch this because I’m also listening to the radio to learn a language :joy: Somehow I’ve missed watching Yell even though there was a Japanese military song in the drama that’s featured in a Malaysian classic film. Below is a clip from the film that I’ve made for Bunpro’s forum topic “The Amazing Race Around the World.”

The director and actor of the film went through Japanese navy school during the Japanese occupation of our country. Luckily, he was one of the few citizens who received a positive experience from it, which prompted him to take learning music seriously while in school and eventually became a timeless legend locally.

Anyway, back to NHK-related topics, I’m not sure if I ever want to watch Oshin since it was an overly-popular Japanese Asadora when I was a toddler. It looks like there might be too much crying for me to actually enjoy it, lol.

You’ve got me interested! Now I have to watch Amachan if there’s Sakana-kun in it. Thank you! :pray:

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Have you tried with any VPN services? One I could think of is https://protonvpn.com/ but there might be better free ones out there with Japanese servers.

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Only a handful of episodes, mind. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thank you, when i clicked directly on here the videos can’t be played. But if you open in Youtube they can like normal :smile_cat:

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I finally remembered to start watching NHK videos again. I’ll watch the Japanophile recommendation from Distantflower next :slight_smile:

I just watched

though. It’s part of a series on sustainable development. Sustainability and local revitalization are really big in my community, so I’m excited to see the various strategies and techniques from around the country. This video is all about “trash fish,” or the fish that don’t sell well mostly because people decided that they weren’t very valuable. They remind me of plant weeds, which are mostly undesirable by convention, aside from some invasive species. If I ever visit Odawara, I’d love to eat a meal at Kai’s Restaurant.

edit: Great listening practice btw

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Seriously thank you for sharing! This was a treat to watch. I hope he meets or has met the German guy who also builds houses from scratch using wood from older houses. It was fun to watch this guy hug a tree when he was checking how straight it was too.

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Here’s one all about the influence of samurai and merchants in Matsusaka. A good portion of the dialogue is not dubbed over as well! The NHK representative in this one has a noticeably better accent than most of them in other videos.

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Pretty sure Journeys in Japan tends to not have dubbing (though I completely can’t remember which shows do and which don’t).

Oh I swear, they have the shabbiest-looking hosts for more than a few episodes. Let me say… they have a face for radio. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Thank you @Belthazar for sharing!

The Nebuta festival in Aomori

The NHK host has a good accent in this one! I love too how he makes friends and asked them where they’re from and they all say Japan but are flying either an Australian or New Zealand flag at their campsite.

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3 parts
stone quarry
a village made of stone
jizu

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Oh no, there’s a whole series of cat videos…

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Should I remake this thread into a Japanese Documentary (doesn’t have to be NHK, can be documentaries about Japan or in Japanese) thread?

  • yes
  • no, please make a new thread for documentaries
  • no, please make a new thread for each documentary outside the original scope of this thread

0 voters

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Here’s a brand new documentary about what it means to be Japanese, particularly for people of various situations such as being Ainu, hafu, returnees, refugees, and many more.

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Wow, it’s been a while. Trying to get back into listening to these

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Has anyone noticed these “time traveling” bits getting more and more popular on nhk?

This feels like a special level of 90s lame…

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:cat: Cats! :cat:

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Iowa called, they want their corn back.

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I don’t know if someone has posted this yet, but as I just heard on NHK radio of Venetia Stanley-Smith’s passing and tried to check if anyone mentioned it on Reddit, I found this gem (a rabbit hole of a YouTube channel) that cheered me up a bit despite the sad news.

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That’s a shame about her passing. She seemed like a lovely person.

Nice video though! :joy:

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Sudden guilty feelings well up, but I guess it’s kind of natural for me to try to avert the inevitable sad news with something more light-hearted.

Here’s an homage to the late Venetia (instead of a Peter Barakan meme), and it’s a short video in Japanese to fit this thread’s topic, at least.

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