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In March 1974, Former Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda surrendered on a small island in the Philippines 30 years after World War II ended. Praised and pardoned by then-President Ferdinand Marcos, the Japanese straggler received a hero's welcome on returning to his homeland. But during their decades of evading capture, Onoda and his comrades had done great harm to the islanders. Newly released secret documents show that Japan and the Philippines saw Onoda's return as a sensitive political and diplomatic matter.

A community whose population now includes thousands of workers at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. A temporary school in evacuation tries to keep the children from losing memories of their hometown. These are just some of the episodes of daily life in Fukushima Prefecture, 6 years after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster of 2011. This program documents the new day-to-day of a place that's still battling the consequences of the nuclear accident.