NHK WORLD PRIME
Season 4 Episode 25 - Koza, Okinawa: Base Town Blues
A historic music pub reopened in Koza, Okinawa Prefecture, near Kadena Air Base, in 2019. The owner, rock musician Miyanaga Eiichi, performed for American soldiers who were en route to the front lines during the Vietnam War. Now he tells audiences about how the music expressed soldiers' desires for peace, and recounts the history of the base town. Others whose paths crossed in Koza include a resident whose family home was seized for the air base, a former worker at bars catering to US soldiers, and a US veteran who joined the antiwar movement while in Okinawa. The complex history of a base town is explored.
Episodes in Season 4
SAMURAI WALL
49 min
Repatriation: Resettling in North Korea
50 min
MIYAKO, The Last Dance
50 min
8K Documentary: The Microscopic World of iPS Cells
49 min
All That Remains
49 min
Stumbling Toward the Precipice
50 min
Refugee Heroes: The Road to Tokyo
49 min
Dignity for All: The Legacy of Sadako Ogata
50 min
Digital Detectives
49 min
10 Years and Beyond: iPS Cells and Kyoto University's CiRA
49 min
Journalism of Hope
49 min
OKINA Dance of Life
49 min
Oswald and JFK UNSOLVED CASES Part 1: The Pawn
50 min
Oswald and JFK UNSOLVED CASES Part 2: The Chessmaster
50 min
Peace and Justice: The Spirit of Japan's Postwar Constitution
50 min
Pandemic Diaries: How the Emergency Declaration Affected Us
40 min
Tsuruko's Tea Journey in Germany
50 min
Exposing the Coronavirus: Our Invisible Enemy in 3DCG
48 min
The Shape of Sound: A Piano Paints the Seasons of Nara
45 min
AI vs Pandemic: Part 1
50 min
AI vs Pandemic: Part 2
49 min
The Lost Textile of Ryukyu
49 min
Poisonous Secrets: What Did Japan and the US Bury?
50 min
FACES the Special - Voices of Hope for an Inclusive Future
49 min
Koza, Okinawa: Base Town Blues
49 min
UNTOLD STORIES OF THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA: Women and Teens on the Frontline
50 min
