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- Season 1 1999-04-12
- Season 2 1970-01-01
- Season 3 1970-01-01
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- Season 6 2004-04-12
- Season 7 2005-01-01
- Season 8 2006-01-01
- Season 9 2007-01-01
- Season 10 2008-01-01
- Season 11 2009-08-15
- Season 12 2010-02-23
- Season 13 2011-10-06
- Season 14 2012-08-17
- Season 15 2013-01-01
- Season 16 2014-03-30
- Season 17 2015-01-10
- Season 18 2016-01-09
- Season 19 2017-01-15
- Season 20 2018-01-14
- Season 21 2019-01-20
- Season 22 2020-01-18
- Season 23 2021-01-04
- Season 24 2022-01-23
- Season 25 2023-01-22
- Season 26 2024-01-21
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- Season 23 Digital vs. Real: Digital Twin - The End of Privacy?
- Season 23 Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan
- Season 23 Women's Livelihoods in Crisis: Bearing the Brunt of the Pandemic
- Season 23 COVID-19: AI Decodes the Research
- Season 23 Miracle Body: Breaking Limits with Hyper-Adaptability
- Season 23 Tsuneta Daiki: Creation through Destruction
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Climate in Crisis - Realizing a Net Zero World
- Season 23 Origins of the Pandemic: Part 1 The Beginning
- Season 23 Origins of the Pandemic: Part 2 Uncontrolled Spread
- Season 23 Myanmar Coup: Digital Resistance
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Hunger Pandemic - The Catastrophic Cost of Excess
- Season 23 Voices of the Children: 10 Years After the Disaster
- Season 23 Inasa: Whispers on the Wind
- Season 23 Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident
- Season 23 Unknown Stories Revealed by Fixed-Point Cameras
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Plastic Pollution - The Toxic Cost of Mass Consumption
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Playing God - Editing the Building Blocks of Life
- Season 23 TOKYO REBORN: The Metropolitan Expressway - The City's Artery
- Season 23 Choose Life: Helping Young People at Risk
- Season 23 TOKYO REBORN: Shibuya - Transforming a "Monster"
- Season 23 Vision Hackers: Updated Takes on Saving the World
- Season 23 Myanmar in Turmoil: The Inside Story on the Military Crackdown
- Season 23 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: AI Warfare - The Dark Abyss of Autonomous Weapons
- Season 23 Prayers for the Pandemic: 1,300 Years of Ritual at Todaiji
- Season 23 The Dementia Mentors: Lessons from my Senior Peers
- Season 23 The Fallen Fortress
- Season 23 The Pride of Yokozuna: Hakuho's Lone Battle
NHK Documentary - Season 23 Episode 24 Prayers for the Pandemic: 1,300 Years of Ritual at Todaiji
0.00 57 minutes Every early spring since the 8th century, Buddhist monks at Nara Prefecture's Todaiji have practiced the Shuni-e ceremony. A series of esoteric rituals, including prayers to Kannon to protect humankind from disaster and disease, it also offers a window into Tang dynasty China. But in 2021, the COVID pandemic threatened to bring a halt to this uninterrupted tradition. Aided by an infectious disease specialist, the monks go to great lengths to hold this ancient practice for the 1,270th time.
