Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands

Japan - we think of it as a crowded, manicured, highly industrialised archipelago. But Japan has a surprisingly vast range of landscapes, from the far north, where sea eagles walk on the frozen waters, to subtropical southern islands, with coral reefs and mangroves, and the central islands, with forested mountains, home to bears and monkeys. Each episode explores how life survives across a land dominated from north to south by volcanoes and earthquakes, savage winters and sultry, typhoon summers. What ways have humans and wildlife fournd to live alongside the forces of nature? From the drama of the streaming volcanic mountains, tropical seas and icy, ghostly forests to the detail of humans interacting with nature, this series evokes the true spirit of Japan.