TV Programs aired in 2001
(Titles in English are tentative translation)
 
"Journey to My Soul"
"Germany - Between Home Land and Foreign Land"
traveller: KANG SangJung, Political Scientist
 
Broadcast: 21 January,2001
by NHK BS2
44min.
Project initiated, directed, and produced by Hiroshi MASUDA
 
Mr. Kang Sang Jung, who became the first professor at Tokyo University, as a Korean resident born in Japan, is well known as a keen and active critic on modern Asia and Japan. In the program, he visits Erlangen, Germany, where he was a student twenty years ago. He stayed for only two years then, but he met a student from Greece, who soon became his best friend, and this German experience brought a big change in his life. After twenty years, he visits the campus again, reflects on experiences which made him what he is now, and meet his Greek friend again.


Mini Programme [Quiz de TO KI MU NE]

The unique ventriloquist [IKKOKU DO], uses his unique puppets such as MARCO POLO and KENBUN bird to present a quiz and introduction on the NHK drama entitled TOKIMUNE HOJO.

Every Sunday,Jan.-Dec.2001, NHK Digital High Vision & High Vision
Presenter:IKKOKU TAMAKI


Uta-kiko (Journey with Tanka)

Now Haiku, Japanese traditional poetry of the shortest fixed form, with only 17 syllables, is getting popular worldwide. Tanka is the original and longer form of Haiku, made of 31 syllables, in which Japanese people have crystallized their sentiments over 1300 years. Uta-kiko is a serial 2 minute program of an anthology of Tanka made by Tanka poets in 19th and 20th century, with beautiful and lyric sceneries in Japan.

The program is included in "NHK Kadan", serial Tanka program on NHK educational channel, which is aired as follows:
    Every Sunday, 7:30am to 8:00am
    Every Thursday, 5:25am to 5:55am
    Every Friday, 0:00pm to 0:30pm


Hi-Vision Special
"Mountain Railways of the World"
"Over Andes to the Capital of Inca: Riding on Southern Peru Railroad"
 
Broadcast: August 6, 2001
NHK BS-hi
Project initiated and produced by Nobuyuki ZANMA
Assistant producer : Minako OSAKI
Navigator : Natsuo SEKIKAWA, Writer


WASEDA University Digital Campus Consortium
 
WALK has taken part in this project that involves education, research, and changes in information technology that began in April, 1999.
WALK provides and produces Digital Educational materials in the form of lectures on [The World Heritage and UNESCO's activities].



NTT Docomo - Mobile: Providing Moving Pictures for mobile telephones
 
We now presents visual contents for the "M-stage Visual", which is the video distribution service by NTT docomo. Our contents are, streamed in the channel "Evergreen", a series of programs with the theme: "nature and cultures to conserve forever", and present programs are on the World Heritages. We started distributing our programs into FOMA, the mobile phone of the next generation, Since October 2001.