that really struck me. >> reporter: later, kamata went to visit the israeli girl who received ahmed's heart. she is 19. ismail was also looking forward to meeting her again. >> translator: if my son were alive, he would be the same age as her. i feel ahmed is with her in some way. >> reporter: samah has kept a picture of ahmed on the wall of the living room. she says she looks at it every day and feels deeply grateful. she is now studying to be a nurse. she wants to give something back to contribute to people. >> translator: i want to help people who are sick and hurt return to good health so they can go back to their homes. >> reporter: there was one question that he wanted to ask samah. >> translator: i feel more confident now that my book may help to open up new possibilities. >> kohe, the palestinians who read kamata's book did not seem to appreciate his message. why do you think he found such resistance? >> the book appeals to readers to break the chain of hatred, but the reaction at the book reading shows that the root of the problem is not simply hatred. for palestinians, the o

. >> reporter: kamata was keen to find out how the book would be received by the local people. he invited a group of palestinians to read it. the response was not what he had hoped for. >> translator: the problem isn't hatred towards israelis. the problem is that they've occupied our land. >> translator: they don't recognize our rights or our dignity and they don't look like they're ending their occupation. their attitude of intolerance is unacceptable. >> reporter: the situation remains too highly charged. the message of the book did not really reach the audience. >> translator: if the situation here doesn't change, people will never accept ahmed's father's message. that really struck me. >> reporter: later, kamata went to visit the israeli girl who received ahmed's heart. she is 19. she was also looking forward to meeting him again. >> translator: if my son were alive, he would be the same age as samata. i feel as if ahmed is with her in some way. >> reporter: she has kept a picture of ahmed on the wall of the living room. she says she looks at it every day and feels deeply g

nhk world's tomoka kamata take us there. >> reporter: the main event i short film competition. the first prize winner will be invited to screen 60 minutes' film next year. a japanese movie distribution company started the event last year. about 40 student groups from five countries posted five-minute clips of the documentaries, animation, and dramas. university student shimpei shigeta won first prize last year. shigeta first visited cambodia three years ago as a volunteer. he dug wells alongside local people. he was struck by their efforts to rebuild the country after years of a civil war that killed millions. shigeta made a film entitled "cross road" about a team engaged in removing land mines from a village. the team included former members of pol pot's army and government forces. he depicted the way they worked together in spite of their past differences. >> translator: the villagers were once enemies. but since the world ended they've been working on the same demining team with good team spirit. i was really surprised. >> translator: since winning the competition, shigeta h

tomoko kamata, nhk world, yokohama. >>> for an update on the weather forecast, here's mai shoji. mai? >> the tropical depression has quickly formed and developed into a severe tropical storm. this is moving at a slow pace at a southwesterly direction. and looks like it's going to be moving towards the north, maybe aiming for the northeastern partinpar parts of luzon in the next few days to come. right now it is packing winds of 126 kilometers per hour, so especially in the west eastern seaboards of mindanao, those waves are going to be much higher and picking up to about 2 to 4 meters high during your weekend. so do watch if you are in the coastal areas. now, this rain is actually just dumping across much of the philippines due to the positioning of this jelawat. strong influence of moisture targets much of the eastern seaboards. we already have reports of about 50 to 100 millimeters on the western seaboards around mindanao, and the ground is really loose, the land is very well saturated, so mud slides and also flooding, especially in the coastal areas, are going to be a very hig

nhk world's tomoka kamata explains. >> reporter: having your portrait taken for your own funeral might be surprising to some, but in japan, it's part of a range of services targeting the growing population of retirees. >> translator: i want to leave behind an enhanced picture of myself, my own favorite shot. >> reporter: people over the age of 65 have increased by more than 1 million over the past year. they make up almost one-quarter of the japanese population, a proportion that's steadily on the rise. this wave of retirees was born during japan's postwar baby boom between 1947 and 1949. funeral homes, attorneys, and health care companies are co-sponsoring an exhibition in kawasaki. experts provide advice on the cost of funerals, graves, and related services. this is a comic book handed out for free for all visitors, and it describes how much money you need to conduct a funeral. visitors have the opportunity of lying down in a coffin. they learn about the variety of models offered by funeral homes. >> translator: i think it would be nicer if it were a bit longer. >> reporter: a funera

tomoka kamata, nhk world, kawasaki. >>> a powerful typhoon is bearing down on okinawa, bringing strong wind and rain. meteorologist robert speta has more. robert? >>> yes. this is typhoon jelawat. it is one very strong and poe tenlt storm system. starting to move towards the northeast and just brushing along the southern japanese islands here all the way from ishigaki over. i want to show you some footage of this very strong and gusty wind. here to 122 kilometer-per-hour sustained winds will be reported at the airport there. wind gusts in ishigaki have been up to 182 kilometers per hour. a result of that you can see here, loose debris flying around, very dangerous to be venturing out there through the overnight hours here. winds continue to kick up. you do want to be staying in throughout the remainder of your friday and even going into saturday morning as the storm system continues to blow overhead. and then it's going to start to work its way up towards the northeast. okinawa, all that rough weather will be heading towards your area, typhoon-strength winds, also seas kicking up to ab

. >> nhk world's tomoko kamata. >>> science and technology experts in japan want the government to rethink how it deals with the by-product of atomic energy, nuclear waste. they argued against the current plan to store the waste deep underground for tens of thousands of years. they instead want it to be kept in temporary locations. science council of japan president takashi onishi presented a proposal to atop tomic emergency commission chair shunsuke kondo. the government asked the council in 2010 to review its disposal plan. the initial idea was to bury highly radioactive nuclear waste more than 300 meters underground. but opposition from people living near candidate burial sites has deadlocked the plan. the science council's proposal says the public must agree on nuclear policies before disposal sites can be selected. council members flagged japan's high seismic and volcanic activity. they say current technology can't predict which locations will remain stable for tens of thousands of years. so they suggest temporarily storing nuclear waste for decades to hundreds of years either above o