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Season
Season 8 Episode
- Season 4 SAMURAI WALL
- Season 4 Repatriation: Resettling in North Korea
- Season 4 MIYAKO, The Last Dance
- Season 4 8K Documentary: The Microscopic World of iPS Cells
- Season 4 All That Remains
- Season 4 Stumbling Toward the Precipice
- Season 4 Refugee Heroes: The Road to Tokyo
- Season 4 Dignity for All: The Legacy of Sadako Ogata
- Season 4 Digital Detectives
- Season 4 10 Years and Beyond: iPS Cells and Kyoto University's CiRA
- Season 4 Journalism of Hope
- Season 4 OKINA Dance of Life
- Season 4 Oswald and JFK UNSOLVED CASES Part 1: The Pawn
- Season 4 Oswald and JFK UNSOLVED CASES Part 2: The Chessmaster
- Season 4 Peace and Justice: The Spirit of Japan's Postwar Constitution
- Season 4 Pandemic Diaries: How the Emergency Declaration Affected Us
- Season 4 Tsuruko's Tea Journey in Germany
- Season 4 Exposing the Coronavirus: Our Invisible Enemy in 3DCG
- Season 4 The Shape of Sound: A Piano Paints the Seasons of Nara
- Season 4 AI vs Pandemic: Part 1
- Season 4 AI vs Pandemic: Part 2
- Season 4 The Lost Textile of Ryukyu
- Season 4 Poisonous Secrets: What Did Japan and the US Bury?
- Season 4 FACES the Special - Voices of Hope for an Inclusive Future
- Season 4 Koza, Okinawa: Base Town Blues
- Season 4 UNTOLD STORIES OF THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA: Women and Teens on the Frontline
NHK WORLD PRIME - Season 4 Episode 15 Peace and Justice: The Spirit of Japan's Postwar Constitution
9.00 50 minutes The coronavirus crisis has pushed many to the brink of poverty. A lifeline has been provided by Article 25 of the Japanese Constitution—the "right to existence," a guarantee of a minimum livelihood, modeled after Germany's Weimar Constitution. Scholars have recently begun to reassess Suzuki Yoshio's key role, who studied the Weimar Constitution before World War II and encouraged Japan to adopt the right to existence early in the postwar era. In the 1930's, Suzuki became a lawyer and defended numerous intellectuals who were facing political repression. After the war, he was elected to the House of Representatives, where he worked to incorporate newly emerging ideas from around the world into Japan's postwar constitution—the right to existence of Article 25, the pacifist stance of Article 9 and other provisions. Interviews and dramatic recreations based on the archival record tell the untold story behind the birth of Japan's constitution. (Excerpt)
