the market known as the kitchen of kyoto. taking time off from her busy schedule, she's here to shop for tonight's dinner. fresh fish are displayed at her favorite fish store. this is a market frequented by professional cooks as well, because plenty of fresh, local ingredients are available here. 5:00 p.m. she begins preparing for the ikebana lesson with her students. before the lesson starts, she always prays to her ancestors and focuses her mind. her students begin to gather. her style of teaching is to let the students first arrange the flowers as they like, then give advice based on their finished work. this german lady has been taking lessons for five years. >> translator: it's beautiful. great job, as always. very beautiful. it has depth and height and is very natural. these buds are cute, too. >> junnosuke is her nephew. he started taking lessons three years ago. >> translator: did you finish? the lily has good momentum. shall we move the pink flower in front of the lily? it gets in the way of the lily. and it looks du

. ♪ >>> a new day begins in kyoto, a city more than one thousand years old.omizo is the third generation owner of the shop, founded in 1893. wagashi sweets are handmade one by one. for their beautiful appearance, they are often called edible jewels. the wagashi he is making is called the star festival. wagashi evolved from sweets that came from china about 800 years ago. it came to be offered with tea at tea ceremonies, and developed into something unique to japanese culture. back when sugar was a precious commodity, wagashi was a luxury only the noble class could afford. it wasn't until the 17th century when the country became more stable it became widely available to commoners. and it was kyoto that played the central role in making wagashi what it is today, a sophisticated culture on its own. >> translator: the sweets we make here are not for everyday consumption. they are sweets for hospitality. to entertain people other than yourself. there are many confectioners working at the shop. his job is to make wagashi with his own hands and to closely supervise

. ♪ >>> a new day begins in kyoto, a city more than 1,000 years old.arakami is traditional japanese people printed with woodblocks. kenkichi senda is the 11th generation master of karacho, an old karakami shop established 680 years ago. with its origin in china, karakami came to be commonly produced in japan about one thousand years ago. karakami is the art of printing patterns on to washi, or japanese paper, using carved woodblocks. karakami has been used to decorate japanese folding screens and sliding doors and many other things. 9:20 a.m. kenkichi drives to work with his wife. his workshop is located in a quiet residential area, a way off from central kyoto. this is the only karakami shop left in japan that still adheres to traditional methods. every morning the first thing kenkichi does is to head for the room where 650 woodblocks are stored, a legacy that goes back nearly 400 years. >> translator: these woodblocks are the most essential tools for karakami-making. each successive master inherits them and continues to use them. >> most karakami pat

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stretches west down the coast of japan all the way to the next major megalopolis, which is the osaka/kobe/kyoto megalopolis. taken together, these two megalopolises and the various cities in between them, such as nagoya and other cities, is an incredible, vast megalopolis-- by far the world's largest-- and containing a very large proportion of the japanese population. translator: tokyo's expansion has been striking. many people predicted a breakdown with the strain. but it has neither broken down nor stopped growing. i believe that one of the major reasons for this is the comprehensive transportation network. the system's design resembles a wheel with spokes. people who live in the suburbs can board a train at their local station and ride any of the spokes directly to one of the central stations such as tokyo, otemachi or ginza. i think that there are few systems like this one in other countries. narrator: saitama prefecture is one of the fastest-growing areas where workers can still find an affordable home. sako toshiaki works as a department manager in a major cosmetics firm. he moved to his

he spoke in japan's nuclear conference in kyoto kyushu. >> translator: many claim the scale of the tsunami was beyond their imagination. they cannot prepare with an attitude like that. >> he's a world-renowned expert on tsunami and the risks they pose. he published a paper about 23 years ago, suggesting that tsunami could disrupt the electrical system of a nuclear plant. he recommended that authorities takereventive measures, even if this sort of disaster hadn't happened in the past. still it took years for the government's guidelines on the quake-resistant design of nuclear facilities to make reference to tsunami. officials revised the guidelines in 2006, but they did not give concrete instructions on how to estimate the height of possible tsunami. professor shuoto claimed he urged nuclear companies to estimate accurately the disasters. >> translator: imagination is needed to draw up measures to prevent tsunami. people must research previous tsunami. and imagine what could happen if similar waves hit the coastline today. >> the professor also said tsunami damage depends on geographical fe

a figure that predicts to double in twenty years time and with international arrangements like the kyoto protocol many nations are counting carbon emissions like i count calories the high temperature inside the reactor able to produce hydrocarbons such as hydrogen from thermo chemical and electrochemical decomposition of h two o. that essentially means that we can get a new fuel source to power our cars just from water as the world's population continues to grow people are moving further and further afield to live work and precious natural resources. to bring the benefits of nuclear energy to the most remote location. now the technology makes possible everything to the linen no not that linen the nuclear powered icebreaker in one thousand fifty nine it was the first of a country's civil atomic fleet nearly twenty years later. which was used as the base model for most it hit the water after it since then russia has been tearing through the arctic state thanks to extra strongholds and they push provided by nuclear powered engines sister to bew russia has churned out sophisticated increasin

nuclear energy here to tell their stories or yoko smith executive director of green action based in kyoto japan and co-founder of stop the manjoo she is also co-author of the book minamata about the japanese methyl mercury pollution ok henri izumi director of should put mari ice in the right that's a mighty shuttle moral. and co-director of save fukushima children. and red ribbon and red ribbon the hokkaido africa support group and kevin camp's radioactive waste watchdog at beyond nuclear welcome to all of you. thank you for joining us. carry id i'm doing ok. i'm sorry i'm late what's the situation in japan it's just so the situation in japan right now is that there are three hundred thousand children living in fukushima and about seventy five percent of the children are going for example to schools that are so contaminated that they would be radiation control areas in nuclear power plants for adults over eight children over. individuals under eighteen will not be legally allowed to the radiation levels are very high in japan they aren't evacuating people unless it's twenty millisieverts

did a kyoto up in the turret. when one gun got jammed, grabbing another.. again, dakota jumped out and loaded them to safety. for a third time they went back. insurgents ran up to the humvee and dakota fought them off. some were desperately trying to escape the bullets raining down. juan wedged the humvee into the line of fire. with dakota on the guns, they helped those americans back to safety as well. for a fourth time, they went back. dakota was now wounded in the arm. the vehicle was riddled with bullets and shrapnel. dakota later confessed, i didn't think i was going to die. i knew i was. still i pushed on. finding the wounded. delivering them to safety. then for a fifth time they went back. into the fury of that village, under the fire that came from every window, every doorway, every alley. when they finally got to those trapped americans, dakota jumped out and he ran toward them. drawing all those enemy guns on himself. bullets kicking up the dirt all around him. he kept going until he came upon those four americans, laying where they fell together

we've had kyoto protocol. we've had a responsibility in the west as much as the commonwealth to reduce carbon emissions but it can't just be an effort for the commonwealth. there's already been improvements made. about if you look at commonwealth statistics, the facts state that the people are recycling more than ever before. so that's challenges that the commonwealth are taking themselves but it needs take collective effort with the united states with china with india, all of the global economies together as the honorable members were saying earlier on, there needs to be a road plan to collectively fight this. but the issue presented by the government, the fact of reducing it by 50% in 50 years is unrealistic and i find myself on the opposition benches also, disagreeing where what the opposition benches are saying to reduce it by 2040 is i think losing -- somewhat. i think that we need to be realistic. we need to -- we all agree in this house that carbon emissions need to be reduce bud we need to collectively