The Traveling Library Truck
For 3 days, we follow a library truck stocked with 2,800 books. In Matsuyama City, a public truck service has been delivering books to the surrounding mountains and islands for 45 years. Many locals use this service, including a retired couple looking for new hobbies, elderly islanders full of curiosity to keep learning, and a pair of friends reunited by the truck who now meet there regularly. We explore how books have touched the lives of the people who gather at the library truck.
Aired: May 18, 2018 Genre: DocumentaryRating: 0 Country: Japan Production: NHK
Episodes
01: Shinjuku Hanazono Shrine: Dreams Come True at Night02: Christmas at a 24-Hour Bakery03: Heading Home on the Strait Ferry04: Legendary Game Center: Adults' Battles05: COOL! Downtown Asakusa Batting Center06: Shibuya: Spring Flowers and Bartering07: A Park Where Dreams Take Wing08: Metropolitan Rat Patrol09: Lives Along Route 4510: Street Corner Legal Consultation Office11: Traveling Beauty Salon12: The Traveling Library Truck13: A Spring Miracle: The Firefly Squid of Toyama14: Osaka, Nishinari: 24-Hour Family Restaurant15: The Joys and Sorrows of 1-Yen Pachinko16: The Women on the Cosmetics Floor17: People Gathering at Akita's ‘Hot Spring of Life’18: Flipping Backward, Looking Forward19: The Race Before the Japanese Derby20: The Great Hospital Move21: Goodbye! My Beloved Department Store22: Hooked on Fishing in Tokyo Bay23: The Sight Beyond the Undersea Tunnel24: Coast Guard Academy25: Surviving the Summer With Fresh Juice26: From the Remittance Office with Love27: To Shibuya, the ‘Holy Land of Amura28: Hakodate's Hamburgers of Happiness29: Tokyo Station: Meet Me at the "Silver Bell"30: Farewell to Tsukiji Market: At the Usual Standing Soba Noodle Shop31: 3333 Stones: Japan's Longest Flight of Steps32: Shiga/Kusatsu Giant Parking Area33: The DIYers of the Suburban Home Center34: Hiroshima Workwear Store
