yuki banks is a childhood friend. >> sachi would call me because she was all alone.s. i'm home alone." >> reporter: the pattern of neglect would continue when, as a young teen, parker was at a boarding school in europe. and one christmas, she says, neither of her parents showed up when the school closed to take her home. where were your parents? where was your mother? >> i don't know. i laugh now, but i have to say, at the time, it was very scary. i was literally stranded. and i did not know how i was going to make it through the night. >> reporter: how old were you? >> i was 14. >> reporter: by yourself. >> yes. >> reporter: no idea where your parents are? >> no idea -- >> reporter: and it's christmas. >> that's right. >> reporter: seeing her distress, some kind strangers took sachi in for two weeks. did you say anything to your mom when you finally spoke to her? like, "mom --" >> i did not. because i was really brainwashed by the japanese culture, but really by my father, never to inconvenience people. >> reporter: or cause trouble of any kind. once, maclaine was u

when sachy goes up to the village. the leper lady when she starts telling him the story her voice come in. i thought to myself, thank god. i could write a section in her voice and not only be in his voice. those things don't come until you need to work them out. that stumped me for awhile and came to with when she and the other villagers who contract lepercy decide to kill themselves to not bring shame to the village. and she can't do it. the man servant who's story that steven slowly finds out rescues her. >> even now i feel the cold waves pushing and pulling against my legs as a stood knee deep in the ocean. there was a flock of birds flying over head. their voices leading us on. as the water lapped around me i saw a man the father of a school friend walk straight into the ocean he never turned back. one moment he was there and in the next he was swaulode by the sea. one woman took a knife and slashed her wrists. i remember how the bloodstreamed down her arms. she turned toward me with a strange smile handed me her k

his work resides in the sachi and smithsonian and others.has written about in art publications his work was recognized by time magazine as one of the top ten inventions of 2012. it is represented by lonkini gallery in london and now i would like to have him come up and speak. [ applause ] i'm benat and based in amsterdam and i want to show you some works. so, my work and installations, and sculpture and photos and site and working on the architecture or the history of the location. i am interested in a motion of friction between construction and de, construction and the physical state of a building and a moment of revolution and perishableness and in these transitional situations you are not sure what you are looking at. nor this is as a clear function yet and therefore it is opened for interpretation and it is really interesting. and this work broad art, it is really the space that is important. because it is the location the museum that gets the contexts to just change the interpretation of this painting while it is resting against the wal

sachi kirati, nhk world, tokyo. >>> the summer holiday season in europe is in full swing. but vacationers say they still have to tighten their belts as they continue to be affected by the debt crisis. nhk world's yasushi kudo has more. >> reporter: europeans can take up to five weeks of work in the summer months, but many workers find they can't vacation like they used to. still that's not holding them back from getting a taste of summer. this beach in greece may look like a paradise, but it's right by a residential area on the mainland. it took less than an hour for this man and his family to get here. dmitri works for the national railroad. his employer slashed his salary by 40%, compared to three years ago. as the government cut down on spending. he and his family used to go island-hopping in the mediterranean. but they can't afford to do that any more. >> translator: since we can't go very far this year, i'd like to bring my family here as often as possible. >> reporter: vacationers in france are using another method to save money on summer travel. these people are hea