NHK World TV (TopTV 406) has acquired the broadcasting rights to three documentaries about the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami and nuclear disaster which Japan's international news channel in English will be showing later this month and in April.
The three documentaries - Fighting Doctor, Being There Through Laughter and Tears and Steel Bond - will be shown on NHK World TV as part of the Broadcaster's Eye timeslot later in March and in April.
Fighting Doctor tells the story of Dr Takahashi, a gynaecologist who defied his own cancer and stayed behind in the town of Minamisoma in the wake of the 2011 nuclear accident to continue his work when many hospitals were closing and his colleagues were evacuating.
Being There Through Laughter and Tears focuses on two friends who fulfilled their dream of opening a care service for the elderly on an island in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Steel Bond goes behind the scenes at a Shimabara blacksmith's shop that has been in the Yoshida family for nine generations and is currently operated by five brothers aged between 72 and 91.
