TV Programs aired in 2000 (Titles in English are tentative translation)

EVERGREEN PROJECT 2000 Historic Cities Around the World Seasonal Festivities of Kyoto Kamakura, the Historic City of Japan Forests in Japan Presently, WALK is producing programmes on High Definition format on four subjects: Historic Cities Around the Word,Seasonal Festivities of Kyoto, Kamakura, the Historic City of Japan, Forests in Japan. These projects are to released on video format by the Leaque of Japan correspondence course of edacation.And then developed to TV broadcast and DVD release.

12 Evenings on Japanese Folk Tales　 100 Japanese Folk Tales recorded on 12 cassette tapes / CDs（one set） Story-teller : Actor Youichi Numata

Various told stories from the Japanese folks will warm your heart, make you laugh, cry, or even gasp in horror! Youichi Numata is recognized to be an character actor who has apent over 30 years to visit throughout to collect the Japanese folk tales. The works invite you the fantastic Numata's World.

WHO's WHO in Asia Restoring Our Deprived Homeland -Primorskij Kraj, Far-eastern Russia-

Broadcast: 28 February, 2000 by NHK BS1 20 min. Project initiated, produced, directed and edited by Hiroshi MASUDA Direction assisted by Makoto SUZUKI Production managed by Toshiro SOGA

Overcoming sixty years of forced exile six thousand kilometers away, Soviet Koreans are coming back to their homeland in Russian far east. Program portrays their agony and hope, focusing on the struggle of Mr. Kim Telmir, who is the son of prosecuted revolutionary hero in the region, to help his fellow people as the leader of those Koreans.

BS Special Best Spring in the World Festival of Flower and Sun in Cote d'Azul

Broadcast: 17 April, 2000 by NHK BS1 78 min. Project initiated, produced and directed by Kazuo MATSUI

The first part of the series to travel for the most joyous spring season in the world. Kentaro Seagal travels to the southern coast of France to find brilliant showers of flowers and sunlight.

ETV2000 Secrets of Original Inventions Part 1 Shuji NAKAMURA Part 2 Toshitada DOI

Broadcast: 29 May, 2000 by NHK Educational TV 44 min. each Project initiated, directed and produced by Hiroshi MASUDA Direction assisted by Makoto SUZUKI Production managed by Toshiro SOGA

Series of interviews to the inventors who achieved unique and original invention. First part is the story of how Mr. Nakamura, who then was a young engineer at a small chemical company in a remote countryside of Japan, won all by himself in the cut throat race to invent blue LED, far leading big enterprises and universities. Second part is the story of Mr. Doi, who is now known as the creator of the Robot Dog by SONY, but have also accomplished many epoch-making invention, such as compact disks. He tells how he developed and realized his original idea, forming and leading right task force, amongst the bureaucratism and physics of organization which always work against unique and original ideas.

The enjoyable Lecture of Experiments on Science The Cosmic Onion 2000 - What is time? -

Broadcast: 15 September, 2000 by NHK BS2 138 min. Directed by Satoshi OIWA Direction assisted by Kazuki TAKASHIMA Produced by Kumi INOUE

Yearly series based on the Christmas lectures by leading scientists, held by the Royal Institution of the United Kingdom. This year, Physics Prof. Niel Johnson of at Oxford University tells the mystery of time.