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S1 Ep5
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2nd Jan 2001
In this programme, Waldemar Januszczak looks at the latest in Japanese technological innovation and asks if Japan's past can explain its technological present.
S1 Ep1
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30th Dec 2000
Jon Snow travels to Japan to examine whether the country can recover from the recession and overcome a debt of over £5 trillion. He also questions how drastic reforms, if needed, will affect the traditional way of Japanese life. He travels with journalist Mayu Kamide searching for some answers.
S1 Ep1
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30th Dec 2000
Jon Snow travels to Japan to examine whether the country can recover from the recession and overcome a debt of over £5 trillion. He also questions how drastic reforms, if needed, will affect the traditional way of Japanese life. He travels with journalist Mayu Kamide searching for some answers.
S1 Ep2
30th Dec 2000
This film examines the recent rise in violent crime in Japan. Through individual murder stories it provides an insight into 21st century Japanese society.
S1 Ep3
30th Dec 2000
This documentary follows Maxx Ginnane, an Australian film-maker, as she goes behind closed doors to meet Japanese mistresses at work.
S1 Ep4
31st Dec 2000
A convicted rapist, released from prison, pursues an obsession with his victim, seeking her in every woman he meets.
S1 Ep5
5.0
2nd Jan 2001
In this programme, Waldemar Januszczak looks at the latest in Japanese technological innovation and asks if Japan's past can explain its technological present.
S1 Ep6
2nd Jan 2001
Documentary about the actor, writer and director Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano. Uses interviews with Kitano and colleagues to paint a revealing portrait of his life and cinema.
S1 Ep7
3rd Jan 2001
The Parkinson family, from Wirral in Cheshire, go to live in a Japanese house in the suburbs of Tokyo for a month. They cook and eat Japanese food, work in Japanese jobs, entertain Japanese friends and try to be Japanese family.
S1 Ep8
5th Jan 2001
Graham Norton visits Tokyo where he is the houseguest of the Hoshi family. Graham experiences Tokyo nightlife, para-para discothèques, host bars and the unusual Japanese obsession with country and western line dancing.
S1 Ep9
6th Jan 2001
A mysterious serial killer preys on the drugged prostitutes at a Japanese brothel.
S1 Ep10
6th Jan 2001
This programme looks at the new wave of young Japanese people who are heading to Bali seeking pleasure and an escape from the cultural restrictions of Japan itself.
S1 Ep11
7th Jan 2001
Drama in which two male commuters on the Japanese subway trade stories which blur the line between fantasy and the reality of their drab, everyday lives.
S1 Ep12
7th Jan 2001
This programme looks at the story of Hideo Ebisawa, a devoted executive in a small electronics firm who committed suicide when his company was unable to pay the bills. It also looks at the recent phenomenal rise in Japan's suicide rate and examines the devastating consequences it has had on society.
The Secret Life of Japan season of television programmes and films was shown on Channel 4, in the United Kingdom, between Saturday 30 December 2000, and Tuesday 9 January 2001.
The first episode of Secret Life of Japan aired on December 30, 2000.
The last episode of Secret Life of Japan aired on January 07, 2001.
There are 12 episodes of Secret Life of Japan.
There is one season of Secret Life of Japan.
Yes.
Secret Life of Japan is set to return for future episodes.