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- Season 5 A Hiroshima Family's Prayer
- Season 5 For the Sake of the Classmates We Lost
- Season 5 Young Thunder: School Taiko Team
- Season 5 Pearl Wedding: 30 Years' Worth of Thanks
- Season 5 Back to Grandma's Land: Chiemi's Story
- Season 5 A Life of Service: The Station Barber of Obama
- Season 5 One of Us
- Season 5 One Big Happy Family
- Season 5 Uniting the People of the Sea: Kumejima, Okinawa
- Season 5 Hang in There!
- Season 5 Finding Yourself on the Open Road
Hometown Stories - Season 5 Episode 11 Finding Yourself on the Open Road
0.00 30 minutes In the city of Sapporo stands a barber shop where many young bicyclists pedaling their way across Japan's northern island of Hokkaido make a stop. Any rider who is making a complete circuit of Japan receives a free haircut from the owner, Yutaka Oyamada, who decades ago did a circuit of Japan himself. He offers this advice to young people bearing burdens of struggle and strife as they ride: "Keep moving forward". Oyamada sends them on their way with encouragement to ride on through storms and scarce funds, to ride on believing that somewhere on the open road, they will find what they are really looking for: themselves. Our cameras follow youthful journeys of self-discovery in the open spaces of Hokkaido.
