NHK WORLD PRIME
Season 2 Episode 19 - 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 with "red back" Sumiteru Taniguchi, a hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivor) who is famous from photographs of his severe burns, caused by thermal radiation. 5 hibakusha and their troubled lives in the aftermath of the Bomb are vividly depicted, in a history of Nagasaki that continues to move many Americans. The program follows the story to a college in the Midwest, where students are using the book as a text. In a region where it is widely believed that "dropping the Bomb was unavoidable", what lessons do young Americans discover in Southard's book?
Episodes in Season 2
One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey
49 min
Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea
50 min
Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan
49 min
Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On
49 min
Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers
The Fisherman and the Forest
50 min
Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
50 min
Tsuruko's Tea Journey
50 min
The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1
49 min
The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2
49 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder
26 min
Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident
25 min
Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed
49 min
I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan
Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan
49 min
A Life with Flowers
50 min
Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe
50 min
Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods
43 min
Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors
49 min
A World of Boisterous Silence
50 min
Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market
50 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1
49 min
China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2
49 min
An 18-Year-Old's Departure
47 min
The Pianist in the Rubble
49 min
Manzanar Revealed
49 min
