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- Season 12 Stable Fishing Jobs Steer a Community
- Season 12 A Float Artisan & His Muse
- Season 12 Magical Forest: Okinawa's Natural World Heritage Site
- Season 12 Soccer Team Raises Community Spirit
- Season 12 Seeking a Chance to Learn: Students with Overseas Roots
- Season 12 Small Factory Reaches for the Stars
- Season 12 Flying Like an Arrow
- Season 12 Modern Methods Sustain Metalwork Tradition
- Season 12 A World Heritage Town: Past and Future
- Season 12 Hard Rain: A Village Divided
- Season 12 Bonding Through Soba: A Story of Four Grannies
- Season 12 Amashi: Japan's Freediving Fishers
- Season 12 Our New Classmate from Ukraine
- Season 12 Waiting for the God's Crossing
- Season 12 Mailing Letters to the Lost
- Season 12 Kintsugi: Mending Memories with Gold
- Season 12 A Cut Above the Rest
- Season 12 The Final Journey
- Season 12 Life on a Sloping Farm
- Season 12 A House-call Doctor in Fukushima
- Season 12 A Song for a New Fukushima School
- Season 12 Reviving a Fukushima Brewery
- Season 12 Japanese Paper Supports War-torn Ukraine
- Season 12 Egg Wars – Father vs. Son
- Season 12 Countryside Diaries
- Season 12 A Heart-Warming Tokyo Veggie Stand
- Season 12 Sparking a Chain of Kindness
- Season 12 Grandma's Hands Reap Nature's Bounty
- Season 12 Inheriting a Thousand-Year-Old Craft
Hometown Stories - Season 12 Episode 10 Hard Rain: A Village Divided
0.00 30 minutes Across Japan, climate change is causing torrential rains and flooding. In response, the government is pursuing sweeping measures to protect communities and save lives, including a large flood-control reservoir in rural Kumamoto Prefecture. But the proposed location is currently occupied by the riverside village of Okaki, home to 58 households that would be displaced. As the reservoir project moves forward, a divide begins to form in a community faced with tough decisions about its future.
