| 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 |
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| 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.
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