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
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NHK Human Lecture -"Theory on the Japanese" Reconsideration-
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Every Tuesday from June 4, 2002 to July 30, 2002. |
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Produced by Osamu MIYATA
AD : Hiroko MATSUNO
Lecturer : Takeo FUNABIKI (Professor of Graduate School, Tokyo University) |
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Since Japan made its late debut ― after three centuries of seclusion ―, to the international society 150 years ago, a number of books on the Japanese have been written by Japanese as well as foreign authors, and became best-sellers in Japan. Why are we so fond of reading about ourselves? Mr. Funabiki, the lecturer of this program, suggests that the Japanese have always felt necessity to ease their deep-held anxiety with observation and theorization by others, and that anxiety derives from being sole non-western people who modernized themselves and became a member of the Imperialist nations' club. The program studies those theories since Meiji-era till now, and tries to find our basis to re-design our self image and vision, which has long been missing or unclear for the "lost ten years".
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Weekend Special "This is How Toro is Made; Tunny-Strategy in South Australia"
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July 7, 2002, August 29, 2002 by NHK BS1 |
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| Producer : Akihito NOMURA |
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In the last ten years, once a quiet port town of Port Lincoln in southern Australia has changed completely. Now it is the biggest tuna-growing district in the world, exporting $1.5 million tuna fish to Japan every year. The program focuses the city's endeavor to succeed in large-scale tuna-farm.
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Hi-Vision Special "The Dinosaur-their Lives in Wonder" Vol.2 : Evolution and Extinction
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August 11, 2002 by NHK Hi-Vision : January 3, 2003 by NHK Educational |
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Project Initiated and Produced : Kazuo MATSUI
Assistant Producer : Akihito NOMURA
Assistant Director : Yoko SORATA
Navigator : Dr. Phillip CURRIE (Royal Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology) |
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For as many as 140 million years, the dinosaurs were the ruler of this planet. Compared with their great existence, very little has been solved on the mystery of their life and sudden extinction. This program shows the latest development of the research, such that tyrannosaurus was very quick in motion and took care of their babies.
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Science Lecture for Kids Cosmic Onion 2002 -DNA, the Design of Life-
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August 31, 2002 by NHK BS2(120 min.) |
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Directed by Satoshi OIWA
Direction assisted by Kazuki TAKASHIMA, Seiko TAKENAKA
Produced by Kumi INOUE |
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Yearly series based on the Christmas lectures by leading scientists, held by the Royal Institution of the United Kingdom. This year, Sir John SULSTON at Sanger Institute of Kenbridge University, who leads the human genome project in UK, tells us about DNA.
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Journey along Great Rivers and History; Volga, the Rivival of Ethnic Identities
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October 29, 2002 by NHK Hi-Vision(120 min.) |
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The program will take you to a virtual tour on the riverboat along Volga, from Moscow to Astrakhan. Visiting Nizhni Novgorod, Kazan, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd, and Elista on the way, you will feel the revival to ethnic identities of the Tatars, the Cossacs, the German Immigrant, and the Kalmyks.
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NHK Human Lecture -Last Letters from Battlefields-
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Every Monday from December 2, 2002 to January 27, 2003 by NHK Educational
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Produced by Osamu MIYATA
AD : Hiroko MATSUNO
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Jun HENMI (Poet, Non-fiction writer) |
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Many of the innumerable military and civilian victims in the Pacific War left their last messages to their beloved families. Ms. Henmi, who has collected and published more than one thousand last letters and diaries as her lifework, guides us to their grave messages, which we must understand sincerely and bring down to the next generation.
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