Deciphering Japan

  • Premiered: Jul 2020
  • Episodes: 4
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • Channel NewsAsia
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  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
A Woman's Role
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 11, 2020
In the first episode, Yumi meets the women who are re-defining their roles in Japan's patriarchal society, and the men forced to re-orientate themselves in this new social order.
1x2
Live To Work
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 18, 2020
In episode two, Yumi dives into the country's extreme work culture, visiting obsessive farmers, overworked salarymen and the therapists trying to keep them sane.
1x3
Ageing Society
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 25, 2020
Yumi visits hip hop dancing grannies and other members of the nation's sunset generation to find out how this fast-ageing country is coping with unprecedented demographic change.
1x4 Show finale
Being Japanese
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 03, 2020
In the final episode, Yumi hangs out with bartending Buddhist monks, psychedelic pop artists, and shunned biracial communities to explore a national identity in flux and to decipher what it means to be Japanese today.

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