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- Season 2 One Last Vision: A Photographer's Final Journey
- Season 2 Between Two Homes: A 102-Year Old Japanese Woman in South Korea
- Season 2 Strategy Gone Awry: Revisiting the US Air Raids on Japan
- Season 2 Valens's Return Home: A Rwandan Genocide Offender 22 Years On
- Season 2 Chasing the Father's Shadow: Vietnamese Children of Japanese Soldiers
- Season 2 The Fisherman and the Forest
- Season 2 Setsuko Thurlow's Quest: A World Without Nuclear Weapons
- Season 2 Tsuruko's Tea Journey
- Season 2 The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 1
- Season 2 The Changing Face of Greed: A Power of Darkness Awakens - Part 2
- Season 2 Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Underground Website Murder
- Season 2 Lives Overshadowed by Crime: The Wakayama Curry Poisoning Incident
- Season 2 Survivor Trees: Hiroshima Revealed
- Season 2 I Was a Caged Bird: Psychiatric Hospitalization in Japan
- Season 2 Nike's Backstory: Unknown Bonds with Japan
- Season 2 A Life with Flowers
- Season 2 Houses for Peace: Exploring the Legacy of Floyd Schmoe
- Season 2 Mt. Ishizuchi: Mountain of the Gods
- Season 2 Hearing the Voices of Nagasaki Survivors
- Season 2 A World of Boisterous Silence
- Season 2 Life at the Bottom of China's Labor Market
- Season 2 China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 1
- Season 2 China's Largest Relocation Policy: Part 2
- Season 2 An 18-Year-Old's Departure
- Season 2 The Pianist in the Rubble
- Season 2 Manzanar Revealed
NHK WORLD PRIME - Season 2 Episode 8 Tsuruko's Tea Journey
9.00 50 minutes In one form of the Japanese tea ceremony, the host serves traditional kaiseki cuisine, sake and finally tea to the guests. The ritual, established as an art form more than 4 centuries ago, is believed to be the foundation of Japan's omotenashi hospitality. One woman has decided to embark on a unique nationwide pilgrimage to immerse herself in the art. Tsuruko Hanzawa is a rare "catering chef" of tea ceremonies. At 70, she loaded her pots, pans and tools for making tea onto a van and set off in her kimono, serving food using local ingredients and tea to the people she met along the way. Exploring a life devoted to tea, this documentary follows Tsuruko for 2 years as she battles illness to continue her pilgrimage.
