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- Season 8 Finding Happiness in Bathhouses
- Season 8 Yuka and Her New Classmates
- Season 8 From Handsome to Beautiful
- Season 8 "Super Volunteer": Driven to Help in Disasters
- Season 8 Drawing to Find a New Me
- Season 8 For the Love of Lettering
- Season 8 Sharing Their Stories
- Season 8 Fukushima Ramen: Bowlful of Spirit
- Season 8 Stories of Fukushima: Giving Their All
- Season 8 The Revival of "Mikan Valley"
- Season 8 A Geisha in Nara: Bridging Past and Future
- Season 8 Yuko Kuroda's Legacy of Care
- Season 8 A Community in the Sky
- Season 8 Praying for Flowers, Praying for Life
- Season 8 Serving Up Memories
- Season 8 A 26-Year-Old's Breast Cancer Diary
- Season 8 Two Worlds, One Dream: Vying for Powerlifting Glory
- Season 8 Where Are My Roots? - One Orphan's Search
- Season 8 A Late Dreamer
- Season 8 Why We Dance - Children's Kagura Troupe
- Season 8 Fukushima's Grandpa Troop: Restoring a Deserted Town
- Season 8 Home for Good - Health Care at the End of Life
- Season 8 Welcome to Maru-chan's Café
- Season 8 A Will to Survive
- Season 8 Soap That Gives Hope
- Season 8 Paddling Our Hometown Lake
- Season 8 The Bounty of the Mountains
Hometown Stories - Season 8 Episode 21 Fukushima's Grandpa Troop: Restoring a Deserted Town
0.00 30 minutes Spring 2019 saw the return of some of the former residents of Okuma Town, Fukushima Prefecture who had evacuated due to high radiation. Instrumental in this were 6 former town employees, aged 66 on average, known as the "Grandpa Troop." These men spent 6 years maintaining affected areas, believing that residents could someday return. Following the partial lifting of an evacuation order, the troop disbanded this spring. We look at what inspired them to clear a path for the younger generation.
