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Season 7 Episode 19 - Staging Shared Memories —Yu Miri and Young Fukushima Actors—
In 2015, novelist and playwright Yu Miri moved to Minamisoma City in Fukushima Prefecture and opened a book café and a small theater. In the summer of 2023, she decided to produce a play based on the effects on young people of the Great East Japan Earthquake, the nuclear power plant accident and COVID-19. She interviews local actors and high school drama club members about their experiences back then, and together they write and present the play.
Episodes in Season 7
Where Will Divided America Go from Here? US Midterm Elections 2022
49 min
The Red Way: The Making of a Third Term
49 min
A Voice to the Voiceless
49 min
Why I'm at War
50 min
End-of-Life Guardians
50 min
Raising a Family on Cat Island
49 min
Blues from the Obscure
50 min
Steve Jobs and Japan
48 min
TOKYO SCANNING
49 min
Taiwan's Windy Frontline Islands
49 min
Voices of Tohoku: What We Want From Reconstruction
50 min
A Director's War: Fighting for Ukraine from Japan
49 min
Return to an Abandoned Village: 50 Years in Tsubayama
49 min
ISSEY MIYAKE: The Human Inside the Clothes
50 min
Prayers of a Thousand Years
49 min
Women on the Front Line: 15% of Japan's Politicians
49 min
The Unknown Master of Restoration Episode 2
49 min
Ukraine's Nuclear Dilemma
50 min
Staging Shared Memories —Yu Miri and Young Fukushima Actors—
49 min
On the Frontlines of Myanmar's Civil War
49 min
Walking a Tightrope: The Filmmaker Yang Yonghi
50 min
The Day I Gave Up My Daughter
49 min
Piano Girl
50 min
The Falconer's Legacy
50 min
Finding My Mirror
50 min