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Season 10 Episode 8 - Japanophiles: Isabelle Sasaki
The Japanophile series looks at Japan through the eyes of long-term residents who were born in another part of the world. This time we meet Isabelle Sasaki, a karate instructor from France. She volunteered in Ofunato after it was hit hard by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Eventually she moved there and set up a branch of the Japan Karate Association, making her a rare instance of a woman from another country teaching karate in Japan. She also works in tourism promotion and helps her husband with his scallop farming. Isabelle Sasaki shares her enthusiasm for her adopted hometown and the martial art of karate.
Episodes in Season 10
Kitchens
28 min
Satsumaimo: Sweet Potatoes
28 min
Dinosaurs
28 min
Japanophiles: Kyle Holzhueter
28 min
Camping
28 min
Male Aesthetics
28 min
Konnyaku
28 min
Japanophiles: Isabelle Sasaki
28 min
Ueno
28 min
Meteorological Data
28 min
Amami Oshima: Paradise Found
28 min
Amami Oshima: Shaped by Adversity
28 min
Japanophiles: Francesco Panto
28 min
Vacant Homes
28 min
Rokyoku: Musical Storytelling
28 min
Japanese Honeybees
28 min
Japanophiles: Martin Holman
28 min
Unused Fish
28 min
Garbage
28 min
Firefighting
28 min
Japanophiles: Benjamin Flatt
28 min
Izumo: Home of the Gods
28 min
Izumo: Land of the Supernatural
28 min
