Air Date: 2019-09-25 Duration: 60 min . Air Date: 2019-09-18 Duration: 60 min. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Sue's next stop is Hiroshima, where allied forces dropped an atomic bomb to end the Second World War. Tokyo is one of the most densely populated cities on earth and real estate is at a premium. Client Folk Films for BBC.

Sue goes to a Pop Idol gig in downtown Tokyo and is surprised to find that the audience is made up of middle-aged men in suits. Sue joins the young hopefuls one morning as they make mayonnaise together to break the ice and watches as they overcome their shyness to exchange business cards. Konkatsu means 'marriage hunting' and these events are designed to try to alleviate Japan's celibacy crisis by introducing young people looking for love.

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How to Watch Beyonce's Black Is King on Disney+ ... Sue Perkins RIP: Shows Ending in 2020. In a traditional tea house outside Kyoto, she meets Kikuno and her apprentices, who are working hard to keep geisha culture alive as Japan becomes more open to the outside world. 2 Episodes.

Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Ms Megumi runs a rent-a-family business. Here you can store the ashes of the deceased and come to pay your respects without the fuss and expense of a traditional burial plot. From sweet rom-coms to soapy thrillers, these are the YA movies to watch The landscape outside the city is a revelation - forests, mountains and islands. Instead of graves, they have a bank of glowing Buddhist statues, that light up when you enter the pin code of your loved one. Source Sue Perkins takes a trip around Japan.

See Also. First Air Date: 2019-09-18. Back in Tokyo, Sue explores how the Japanese are finding ways to combat these modern challenges. Modern Japan is struggling with some new problems – some people work so hard they have no time for love or family. Japan will host the next Olympic Games, but the country's most traditional sport is still stuck in the Dark Ages when it comes to equality. It's state-sponsored speed dating.

Young women, concerned that they will never marry, are paying to have all the trimmings of the special day - hair, make-up and a big dress - but with no husband. Increasingly, there's not even room to bury the dead. Sue Perkins starts her journey in Tokyo, Japan's glittering capital city and home to 36 million people.

He was just ten-years-old when the bomb hit, travelling on a tram with his mother, just 750 metres from the epicentre. Tokyo . More info . Sue Perkins embarks upon a trip around Japan, exploring a nation caught between the demands of a hi-tech future and the pull of a traditional past. Here she sees how Japan’s strict corporate culture has created some of the world's most successful companies, with its traditional values of hard work and discipline. In the sacred Kii mountains of Wakayama Prefecture, she has a go at shinrin-yoku or forest bathing. Sue wants to understand what it takes to become a geisha and whether there is any truth to the perception of them as rich men's playthings. She finds a nation caught between the demands of a hi-tech future and the pull of a traditional past, where people work long hours but struggle to find time for love and relationships. Japan with Sue Perkins 2019.

After the war, Japan set about rebuilding its shattered economy. Professional photographs are uploaded to social media. Rental families are now big business in Japan. More info.

Service Voice Record, Simon Couzens. Sue trains with a female sumo wrestling team trying to bring change to this male-dominated sport. Birth rates are falling and the population is shrinking.