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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 8 Modern Methods Sustain Metalwork Tradition
0.00 30 minutes A workshop in Iwate Prefecture has been making traditional Nambu ironware kettles for decades. After taking over the business from his master-craftsman father, Tayama Takahiro decided to rethink the work environment. To attract younger applicants, he replaced grueling schedules and long apprenticeships with 5-day workweeks and paid time off. And he designed a simple kettle that can be produced by less-experienced artisans. But there are bumps along the way and Takahiro must learn to adapt.
