Document 72 Hours - Season 16

First aired: 1/10/2025 23 episodes

Episodes

1. Multinational food store Living in Japan

Aired: 1/10/2025

Bananas called mackerel, tilapia, mutton, frogs and hot spices. The stage is a multinational food shop in Kinshicho, Tokyo. It is lined with ingredients from more than twenty countries, mainly in Asia, and people from various countries living in Japan visit. A man from Bangladesh who has been in Japan for forty years, but sometimes wants to eat his native food. A Vietnamese woman in her 20s who started working at a Japanese hotel last year. What do you eat in a foreign country in Japan and how do you live?

2. A Niigata Drive-Through Restaurant in Winter

Aired: 1/24/2025

Fryed noodles and meat sauce. Local gourmet called “Italian” in Niigata. This time, the stage is the drive-thru of a fast food restaurant in Nagaoka, Niigata. Many people stop by car and buy Italian food. A woman who goes to her mother's house and has lunch with her. Families who buy a lot as a dish of the dinner table and go home. Some people reflect on their youth to the taste that has been familiar to the local people for many years. At the end of the drive-thru, look at the present of the area.

3. Seiya Nagasaki Daihodojo Hospital cake shop

Aired: 1/31/2025

The first series of hospitals!　A cake shop in a hospital that is rare in Japan. Nagasaki University Hospital has more than 870 beds. The shop is lined with strawberry and peach cakes, and visitors visit the clinic, including outpatients and hospitalized patients, accompanying families, and working doctors and nurses. A woman who has been in the hospital for many years and returns home every time she buys a cake for her family. After the surgery, parents and children buy to celebrate. A doctor who buys for his colleagues. Christmas at the hospital. What is everyone looking for for a cake?

4. Close! Moving a huge hospital.

Aired: 2/7/2025

2nd series of hospitals! Moving to a huge hospital. In January 2025, the University of the Ryukyus Hospital in Okinawa was fully relocated. Eighty-five patients, from critically ill patients in the intensive care unit to children in pediatrics, are transported to a new building nearly ten kilometers away in a single day. The end of the hospital, which has seen life for a long time, and the beginning of a new hospital where more advanced treatment can be done. What are the thoughts of working health workers and patients who continue to treat patients? From the move to the start of the new hospital, I looked behind the scenes.

5. A Supermarket in Snowy Iwate

Aired: 2/21/2025

The oversized block beef is also full of seafood such as Ise shrimp and cod. The stage is a supermarket in Nishiwaga-cho, Iwate Prefecture. In a heavy snowfall area where the amount of snowfall in the winter sometimes exceeds 10m, many people come while it continues to snow. There are many customers from women from large families with children who eat, chefs at local restaurants, men who run hot spring inns, and neighboring Akita Prefecture. A camera was installed at a supermarket that can be said to be a “local food base” for three days at the end of the year.

6. Oku-Noto-Suzu Seaside public bath

Aired: 2/28/2025

Oku-Noto-Suzu. There are sento that continue to be crowded even though it is in the midst of repeated disasters. In the midst of the widespread water outage immediately after the earthquake, groundwater was pumped up, wood from collapsed houses was burned, and business resumed early. Some people provided a valuable bath, and there were people who met again and confirmed their safety. A year since that. A lot of people come here. Locals, volunteers, and people working in demolition work. The sento became the source of the people, and the danran was born. Listen to people’s voices and minds here.

7. Winter Sendai at midnight Nikuman Stand

Aired: 3/7/2025

Hot meat buns full of toro toro-toned pork, bamboo shoots, and chrysanthemums. Set in a stand-style Nikumanten on the street corner of Kokubun-cho, an entertainment district in Sendai. It is open until five o'clock in the morning, and various people visit throughout the night. A fellow colleague at work who stopped by after drinking, a person who bought it for the second store to enter the second store, a man in black clothes at a club who finished work, and a mother of a snack shop. The steam that stands up in Sendai in winter. Under the cold sky, I looked at each situation of smiling meat buns.

8. Tokyo Botanical Garden My only winter

Aired: 3/14/2025

The stage is a botanical garden in the middle of Tokyo. Some people visit for something, even though they think that there are few highlights during the winter. Some people say that they came to see plums at the turning point of their lives, and people who say that there is a taste when they see the appearance of standing withering. Some people sit on benches and look at the trees. People who dare to face the plants in the winter. What’s ahead of that look? We spent three days together.

9. Kawasaki Taishu Shokudo Diary

Aired: 4/4/2025

Omelet rice, grilled fish, potesara, ramen, beer and shochu. The stage is a long-established popular restaurant near Kawasaki Station. Many people say that they work late at night or on work holidays, and the appearance of drinking alcohol from noon is conspicuous. A group called a childhood friend who grew up in Kawasaki. A senior junior at a company called the launch of work. Even if you come alone, it is not uncommon for people who happened to be sitting at the table and have a flower in a conversation. A popular dining room on a street corner crowded from morning to night. If you put your camera here for three days, you’ll see what it is now.

10. The Lure of Token Games at an Amusement Arcade

Aired: 4/11/2025

This time, the stage is a medal game lined up in a row. The game center in Fujimino City, Saitama Prefecture, has a variety of things, from nostalgic to new games. No matter how much you add, you can't go back to money or prizes. Still, a lot of people are coming. People who are crazy about games thinking that they will not like their work from tomorrow, and people who enjoy games that they play with their father. What are you all thinking about when you’re into the game? We stayed close for three days.

11. Gifu-Nishiyanagigase “Shutter Town” Blues

Aired: 4/18/2025

In Nishiyanagigase, Gifu City, there is a shopping street where nearly ninety percent of shops have shuttered. The bustling days of the night's prosperity as a city are gone, but people's activities still remain. A snack mom who has been working for nearly 50 years. An elderly man cleaning the shopping street with a part-time job. Young people planning events using empty buildings. After the war, it flourished in the textile industry, and was known throughout the country with its hit song "Yanagigase Blues". What would you see if you installed a camera here in the shutter city now?

12. Toast at “Japanese Izakaya” in Seoul, Korea

Aired: 5/1/2025

Draft beer, edamame, fried horse mackerel, yakisoba. The stage is a Japanese-style izakaya in Seoul, Korea. The owner was a Japanese and opened in 2004. Every day, it is crowded with Korean customers. A fellow colleague at work who usually eats Japanese food. A family that has been going for more than ten years and is good friends with the owner. There are many couples and couples who visit. The real thing is to spill out with a drink in one hand. What are you all talking about here? 45min Expanding SP!　There is also a mini-corner of various Japanese food in Seoul.

13. Hakata 24hours Ramen shop

Aired: 5/9/2025

Light pork bone soup and thin noodles. It is very simple with green onions and char siu. This time, the stage is a Hakata ramen shop that has been loved by the locals for a long time. The price is 290yen per cup. It is open for twenty-four hours and is visited by people all the time. There are people who come at dawn after finishing the construction work, people who worked at snacks, and people who say that it is a taste of memories visited by families when they were children. In search of an unadorned daily drink. I listened to the voices of the people who came for three days.

14. Spring running bread moving sales car

Aired: 5/16/2025

Colorful breads lined up on the bed of light trucks, such as red bean bread, bread, tuna dogs and donuts. This time, it is three days to closely follow the moving car of the bread movement. Sales cars go around various places in Yokohama, such as condominiums in the suburbs where there are no convenience stores nearby, facilities where elderly people can not go out for shopping, companies and schools where people are busy working. For the sake of someone, from children to the elderly, for each person waiting for the bread. What will we meet in the spring?

15. Nozokizaka On the steep slope of Tokyo

Aired: 5/23/2025

The stage this time is a steep slope "Nozokizaka" in Toshima Ward, Tokyo. I was told that I was so steep that I couldn't see the bottom unless I looked into it. Various people pass through this one slope. Some people worked until the last train, children who said that this was the way to school, and there were people who were training. In April, when my new life began, I stared at the slope where the cherry blossoms were flying for three days.

16. Multi-national student dormitory In the days of youth

Aired: 6/6/2025

This time, the stage is a huge student dormitory. Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University in the mountains of Beppu City, Oita Prefecture. Half of the students are international students, and they are indeed multinational, from ninety-four countries and regions. Self-catering in the communal kitchen where you can see the cuisine of various countries. Naked relationships in the public bath and night with friends. Life between people of different cultures can be fun and sometimes difficult. What days they are living under the same roof, three days of spring

17. Tsugaru Prefabricated soba shop

Aired: 6/13/2025

Oden next to the hot. The stage is a prefabricated soba restaurant in Goshogawara City, Aomori. The shop is only a few hours at night, and the inside of the shop is small and standing eating. Strangely enough, many people visit. Parents who stop by every time they go home. A mother who started a double work for her daughter who moved to Tokyo. The sister of an apple farmer who has been three generations. People who have left the local Tsugaru also come here with nostalgia. What is a hometown? During the long holidays, when the number of people returning home increased, I installed a camera in a small shop.

18. Bonsai A small universe in a pot

Aired: 6/20/2025

There is a place called the sacred place of bonsai in Saitama City. The area where six bonsai gardens gather, commonly known as "Omiya Bonsai Village". From a thousand yen for beginners to a gem of several hundred years old with no price, there is no single bonsai. People put scissors in their minds and arrange the branches. An elementary school student who seems to love a bowl of cherry blossoms. A woman who grows bonsai inherited from her late father-in-law. A man who became a bonsai gardener at a young age. What is everyone looking at while facing bonsai?

19. Yamagata At a small zoo

Aired: 6/27/2025

The venue is set at a small zoo for free. This zoo in Yamagata Prefecture is popular for its elderly deer and peacocks, and has been popular for more than seventy years. Some animals have been protected from injury or illness, such as birds that are injured and unable to fly, and foxes that have been in traffic accidents. Various people visit here, think about something, and leave, such as people who come every day and talk to animals, and people who repeat themselves to the injured and protected animals.

20. Shinjuku Ekimae Lion statue donation box

Aired: 7/4/2025

A golden lion statue that roars "Gao". It is located in the square in front of the station of Shinjuku Station, a huge terminal. In fact, this is a donation box where the mouth of the lion became the input point of money. A lot of people don’t know it, they go in front of their eyes. The donation box was set up by a local Lions club in 2000. The money raised will be used to provide support to the affected areas. If you stay here for seventy-two hours, how many people will you meet who you will donate to? And what do you think about putting money in? Look at the good will of the street corner.

21. Chiba 100 Years hardware store

Aired: 7/18/2025

One hundred years since its founding, it is set in a hardware store in Chiba Prefecture. From pots and knives to carpentry tools and farm equipment, there are twenty thousand kinds of items to be handled. A carpenter who comes to buy indispensable business tools such as nails and scoops. Farmers seeking barbed wire to deal with wild animals that ravage the fields. In addition, there is also a request to repair the mulberry that parents love for a long time ... What kind of life do you see if you put your camera on the “town yorozuya” that is close to the problems of the local people?　Three days of "preparation" before the summer.

22. Nagoya Shinkansen platform Kishimen store

Aired: 7/25/2025

There are places where many travelers come to the Nagoya specialty Kishimen. A stand-up restaurant on the platform of Nagoya Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen. There are only eight seats at the counter, and it is large enough for people to pass each other. However, there are still few customers who can stop. People who always eat kishimen before a business trip, people who go all the way to buy admission tickets, and people who come to check the taste of memories before visiting their mother. Why can’t we stop by each of these things?

23. The “Last” Newspaper Stand in front of Shibuya Station

Aired: 8/1/2025

Newspaper stands" are rarely seen anymore. For some reason, there is only one stand near the scramble crossing in the middle of Shibuya, selling magazines and newspapers in the old-fashioned style. What kind of people come to buy them? Why, in this day and age, would anyone bother to pick up a paper magazine? For three days, among the hurriedly passing people of the city, I stopped and looked at the shop. I stopped and looked at them.