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1 season · 4 eps

Season 1

S1 · E1 45 min

A Woman's Role Episode 1

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In the first episode, Yumi meets the women who are re-defining their roles in Japan's patriarchal society, and the men forced to re-orientate themselves in this new social order.

S1 · E2 48 min

Live To Work Episode 2

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In episode two, Yumi dives into the country's extreme work culture, visiting obsessive farmers, overworked salarymen and the therapists trying to keep them sane.

S1 · E3 45 min

Ageing Society Episode 3

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Yumi visits hip hop dancing grannies and other members of the nation's sunset generation to find out how this fast-ageing country is coping with unprecedented demographic change.

S1 · E4 47 min

Being Japanese Episode 4

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In the final episode, Yumi hangs out with bartending Buddhist monks, psychedelic pop artists, and shunned biracial communities to explore a national identity in flux and to decipher what it means to be Japanese today.

4 episodes in Season 1

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