it's the brain child of a kyoto travel agency. the staff who work here are all female. they started by offering other women-only packages. nom are more novel than others. this service is heart break taxi. for a fee, customers can vent their sorrows to cab drivers who take them to sites famous for their healing powers. the company launched the solo wedding package in june last year. >> translator: some women who are not married continue to dream about wearing a wedding dress. so we thought we'd provide them with this opportunity. >> reporter: this 37-year-old woman from tokyo has come to kyoto to fulfill her dream of wearing a white wedding dress. [ speaking foreign language ]. the two-day package costs about $3,000. it includes an overnight stay dress rental makeup and a photo session. the company says over 50 women have signed up for solo wedding so far and inquiries are coming from overseas. >> translator: these two days were just wonderful. the staff worked very hard. they gave me every service i could have imagined and made me feel like a princess. >> translator: i

owned kyoto. he says, and i quote, "we didn't and don't go to iwojima japan to celebrate victory but for the purpose to pay tribute to and honor those who lost their lives on both sides." next to general snowden sits yoshi talktaka shinjo. his grandfather through the valor we remember even today was the commander of a japanese garrison during the battle of iwo jima. what should we call this, is f not in history, enemies that have fought each other so fiercely that have become friends? [applause] prime minister abe: too general snowden, -- to general snowden i pay tributes to your efforts. thank you so very much. [applause] prime minister abe: post-war, we started off on our path, bearing in mind feelings of deep remorse over the war. our actions brought suffering to the peoples in asian countries. we must not avert our eyes from that. i will oppose the views expressed by the previous prime minister in this regard. [applause] prime minister abe: we must all the more contribute with every respect to

. >>> a samurai movie theme park in kyoto once grew big crowds and now park managers are bringing back visitors after making their attractions more modern and interactive. ♪ >> reporter: this film set theme park in kyoto opened in 1975. the theme park boasts an outdoor set that looks like a period street. a major film company uses the set to film samurai dramas. people once flocked here to watch the dramas being filmed. at its peak the park attracted more than 2 million visitors a year. but fewer samurai dramas are made now and the number of visitors hasattendance bottomed out at under 700,000. there was even talk of closing the park down. but the operator decided to try something new. to make the park a place for experiencing, not just observing. the actors who put on a sword fight show now also teach visitors how to handle a sword and move like a real sword fighter. [ speaking foreign language ] this man is not an actor. but these tourists are transformed by makeup and costume. the park gives people the chance to feel like a film star. >> i feel like a star. what should i do if i'm a

. >> reporter: the cast simple located about 150 kilometers west of the ancient capital kyoto. many tourist from around japan and also different places around the world. now the biggest draw is that central tower. the tower looks like it did 400 years ago. take a look around me. see those openings in the holes. those are very deadly holes. they are where, if i'm an enemy approaching the castle i would be met with bullets and arrows shooting out of those holes. after that i would have to go through a gate this is another trap. this is where samurai warriors hid behind the ceilings to drop big rocks and hot water on me. even if i break through that gate i would have to go through a labriyth pass cigarette with tricks and traps waiting for me in order to approach that central tower, almost possible. now himenji castle is known as a beautiful architecture. but you have to remember it's also a unique fortress with all kinds of defense designs. all that included it's recognized as you a necessary could world heritage site. let's go to that tower now. that central tower is 47 meters h

and that is a change from the kyoto protocol. entries will be making their own suggestions. more than 190 countries getting -- they also have to sign to an agreement. and getting those countries to sign on the dotted line is the challenge. >> we only have one planet. we better take care of it. thank you very much. >> going to a short break. when we come back, prince charles is an island. we will have the story. stay with us. >> welcome back. in recent years sexual violence has become a subject of fierce debate within india. several brutal rapes and murders have made international headlines and has sparked discussion about general attitudes in india towards women. the family ministry indicates 40% of married indian women have suffered the mastic violence, including rape. >> most do not speak publicly about their ordeals out of fear of reprisal. >> our reporter in the indian capital did find one woman willing to speak out. >> it is wedding season. processions like these are seen everywhere. the happy celebrations can trigger painful memories for some women. she speaks openly a

(shows bucket) >> professor shin kubota is a biologist with kyoto university. he explained to me that nature holds many mysteries which humans can learn from. >> the one thing that is not a mystery in nature, that's not a mystery is wherever there is life.... there is death. >> ahhh... >> right? >> the immortal jellyfish -scientific name: turritopsis dohrnii- sounds fantastical. but what it can do is amazing - and its something no other known species on earth can do. these tiny organisms can reverse their aging process, reverting back to the original polyp form after reaching an adult state or experiencing trauma. but despite its name this jellyfish is only technically immortal. >> why are the immortal jellyfish so hard to keep alive? >> the secret he says lies in studying what is the blueprint of all living species - the dna in its genome. >> you really enjoy these guys? huh? >> he hasn't yet found the key to our immortality. but to professor kubota, the jellyfish is an inspiration. >> professor kubota's dream may still be far from a reality, but many others a

late last month, a research team from kyoto university went to tanna, an island near the center of the damage. it suffered the most damage. this neighborhood is in the northern part of the island. most of the buildings here were destroyed in the high winds. this church built of concrete blocks was one of them. jutting from the damage, the research team determined the wind speed was close to 290 kilometers per hour. >> translator: i have never seen a concrete wall completely destroyed like this. >> reporter: on the island's eastern coast, damage was mostly caused by extremely high waves. the area was hit by waves as high as 20 meters. so this bridge was washed out. this neighborhood was among those inundated. about 40 houses were swept away. >> big wave like we've never seen before. >> reporter: fishing boats were hurled onto a cliff in this area. the team's research shows that the waves reached up to 12 meters. >> translator: i got the impression that the waves were comparable to tsunami waves. the typhoon was of the highest category, and i think the high waves also fell into that cate

and 33 in kyoto as we go into the next day.w, be that as it may, we are seeing much more serious conditions as we look at the forecast for south asia. we are seeing temperatures that are brutally hot. some areas seeing highs of up to 47 degrees. and this was on monday as we see the reported highs. and areas especially in the eastern portions of india are in a very serious state because we are going to see these oppressively hot conditions continuing on as we go into wednesday and thursday. look at this. new delhi, 43 degrees on wednesday. 44 on thursday. mid-40s also throughout other portions of india and south asia. and so because of the hot weather along with the issues with the electricity, and we're seeing these blackouts running around from time to time this is going to be a very dangerous situation. and unfortunately, we're not going to see any relief from the southwest monsoon because it's not time for it yet. we are seeing it mainly on cue for the moment with the bands moving in. but we have to go all the way into the m

during a press conference on the hotly contested kyoto agreement, greenpeace advocates protest againstmerica. they claim it's not reducing greenhouse emissions fast enough. >> the united states, which admittedly was a big part of the cause of the problem because we had been an industrial fight for a long time, all of a sudden, is viewed by many as the heavy. we viewed ourselves as trying our damnedest to actually find solutions, but they weren't pure enough for some. >> one protester takes matters into her own hands, throwing a pie at u.s. undersecretary for global affairs frank loy. >> i had to make an immediate decision whether to be outraged or to treat it lightly. and i decided for the latter. this incident occurred the day before american thanksgiving, and i said, standing there with this stuff dripping off of me, i said, you would have thought that on the day before thanksgiving they could have picked pumpkin pie rather than cherry cream. >> a pie in the face is standard vaudeville stuff. i think you can almost get away with that because a pie in the face is something people do f

you know we didn't just ratify the kyoto protocol in 1997 because the republican control of the congress same thing today. so i think president obama has been very courageous and shown leadership on this issue. but we need as a people to band together and demand more. >> do you think this factors into 2016 in a big way? for instance, health care in 2008 the economy in 2012. could this signature 2016 for a younger generation? >> i think for the next generation this is the issue. the impact of climate change and human rights on the next generation. because they're the ones who are really going to be feeling the impact. and we're the ones who are causing the problem. >> all right, the robert f. kennedy center for justice and human rights. you've got an auction going on. it's been a fabulous organization. you've done wonderful things around the globe. how's this year going? >> it's going well. you can go online right now and bid to have lunch with tim cook or see taylor swift or go to the kennedy center honors or go to the super bowl or the world series. just about anything you want to do yo

these corporations that like say, oh, no, let's just like not--not like participate in like the kyotont. like, let's just not address anything having to do with the epa, are quite literally ruining the world for a huge number of its population and future generations. jose: we all need to wake up. we all need to know what's going on. we need to educate ourselves. we need to stand together, and we need to fight this. jake: that tree is money to me. the sun is money to me. and these guys are gonna soon realize that without trees, without sun, without water... you can't eat money. jeffrey: the u.s. as a society has been under-investing in our future for decades. households were borrowing rather than saving. the government was slashing taxes for the rich and cutting public investments for all of society. cutting back on even maintaining our infrastructure--our roads, our dams, our waterways, our levees. cutting back on investing in renewable energy, for example, which is vital for our security in the future and for environmental security. nicole: we are making ourselves extinct right now.

we also found that about four in 10 americans actually know what the kyoto protocol was which was interestingall, i think that as we go forward with these polls, we can tweak our answers and come up with better questions and be able to get a better response. host: carolyn curiel you do plan to keep going with these polls. undergraduates conducting the poll, americans are always skeptical of polls. why should they trust a poll done by undergraduates to the? -- done by undergraduate students? guest: why trust any poll, honestly. what i think it is trustworthy because of the rigor and research that went into and the additional factor of, wouldn't it be interesting to get a snapshot that is interesting for the students? we asked some questions that were outside the box. they were encouraged to think about things that would really test knowledge, test participation. it's interesting that the largest, 60%, the largest portion of americans -- 16%, the largest portion of americans volunteering from the midwest. we are in the midwest of the game is an interesting picture of ourselves. if you have this

1998, as the clinton administration was building support for international climate action under the kyoto protocol, another group was up to something else. this group was the fossil fuel industry. its trade associations and the conservative policy institutes that often do the industry's dirty work with clean faces. they met at the washington office of the american petroleum institute. their plan? to organize a scheme to create doubt about climate change and to undermine public support for american participation in the kyoto agreement. a memo from that meeting leaked to the "new york times." the memo documented the polluters' plans for a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign to undermine climate science. what was the project's goal? to ensure that -- and i'll quote the memo here -- "a majority of the american people, including industry lettership, recognizes -- leadership recognizes that there is significant climate science and therefore raises questions among those in e.g. congress who chart the future u.s. course on global climate change. and i ask unanimous consent that that mem