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- Season 3 A Doctor Beside the Deathbed
- Season 3 Epic Challenge: A Race Across the Japanese Alps
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- Season 3 Class Struggle: Changes to China's Education System
- Season 3 A Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather
- Season 3 Vessel of Friendship: An Untold Story
- Season 3 Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 1
- Season 3 Battling a Radiation Emergency: The Doctors at Fukushima Part 2
- Season 3 Split-Screen Documentary: Nuclear Ghost Town - After 8 Years
- Season 3 A Journey through Genders
- Season 3 Bettering Tibet
- Season 3 I too was a Child of Camp.
- Season 3 Hope in the Dark
- Season 3 MATAGI - Worshipping Bears
- Season 3 Helping Hands - The Lives of Atomic Bomb Orphans
- Season 3 The United Red Army: A Troubled Legacy
- Season 3 The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 1
- Season 3 The Lives of Japanese War Brides in America: Part 2
- Season 3 1971 - Japanese Rugby Takes On England, And The World
- Season 3 Chinese Internet Celebrities: Influencing the Huge Online Market
- Season 3 Henoko: Living with an American Base
- Season 3 Digging the Untold History
- Season 3 No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 1: Clearing Plastic from the Ocean
- Season 3 No More Plastic: In Search of a Sustainable Future - Part 2: Frontlines of Global Business
NHK WORLD PRIME - Season 3 Episode 6 Vessel of Friendship: An Untold Story
9.00 50 minutes In 1855, a schooner departed from the Izu Peninsula, and set sail towards Russia. Newly-discovered documents tell an untold story of friendship between Russia and Japan. The events occurred when Russia's Admiral Putyatin travelled to Japan to negotiate a peace treaty. While he was approaching to the peninsula, disaster struck. An earthquake and tsunami sunk Putyatin's ship, putting his delegation of 500 in grave danger. However, local residents not only saved their lives, but helped them build a brand-new ship. Japan had spent over 200 years in isolation, and for a settlement of 3,000 people, the arrival of 500 foreigners was unprecedented. Local shipwrights worked closely with the Russians, via trial and error. The techniques they learned became the cornerstone of modern Japanese shipbuilding. The schooner was named Heda, after the village where it was built. It symbolizes a tale of international exchange in the closing days of Japan's shogunate age.
