Begin Japanology - Season 4 / Year 2010

Season 4 / Year 2010

Episodes

Sentou

Karuta

Taiko

Cram School

Light

Footwear

Monkey

Soy Sauce

Tuna

Fusuma

Pearl

Todaiji

School Lunches

Geiko and Maiko

Robots

Wasabi

Women's Fashion Magazines

Izakaya

Apartments and Condominiums

Towns and Neighbourhoods

Tempura

Subways

Hairstyles

Home Appliances

Roof Tiles

Miniaturization

Silk

Soybeans

Curry

Dams

Hotels

Radio Calisthenics

Ekiben

Bridges

Earthquakes

Chrysanthemums

Cameras

Hiragana

Udon

Money

Nishikigoi

Volcanoes

Firefighting
Japan's architectural use of wood makes it a country particularly vulnerable to fires. This episode looks at Japan's civil firefighting brigades and the country's high-tech equipment used in disasters
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