Sushi Blog

John explores how rice is deeply integrated into Japanese culture by experiencing the entire life cycle of rice from planting rice seedlings hands on first by hand and with a machine to tasting cooked rice and sake.

The video host and his friend venture into Doai, an old railway station that leads to long dark tunnels.  An abandoned Japanese school is found nearby.  While filming, the crew finds not a single soul.  The entire area looks abandoned, but it's not. The station and its surroundings would make an ideal location for making a horror movie.

The fate of a day-old sushi is a compost or landfill, but a year-old sushi that is actually served for human consumption?  It actually exists and is called Funazushi, a traditional recipe dating back over 1000 years. The notoriously strong flavored sushi is made from fermented rice compressed with a heavy stone to keep air out.

Hikikomori is an acute social withdrawal who completely withdraw from social life, resorting to extreme isolation and confinement. This social plague has increased to an epidemic proportion in recent years and Japan. The disorder once common among young adult is now prevalent among middle-aged population.  The video tales an inside look at how the affected individuals struggle to recover from the social debilitation.

Aging population are increasingly growing worldwide and each country has its own agenda and policy in caring for senior citizen. This video reveals how a typical nursing home in Japan.  In this video, people at Azalee's Nursing Homes appear to be happy with all-around care they receive. Hospitals and clinics must be non-profit and owned and operated by physicians in Japan. Health care costs are standardized across the country, with no single physicians able to charge a different price for a procedure.