Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands

2015 • National Geographic Channel
4.6
9 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 1 episodes (3)

1 Honshu
6/7/15
Japan's largest island, Honshu, is home to over 100 million people. But there is also an astonishing variety of wildlife, and vast areas of wild landscape. On this island, from the mountains all the way to the coast, people and nature are drawn together, and live alongside eachother in the most unexpected ways.
2 Southwest Islands
6/14/15
In the far southewest of Japan, there's a chain of islands stretching down towards the tropics. On this island archipelago, all life is influenced by isolation and the power of the sea. The further south you travel, the stranger life seems to become.
3 Hokkaido
6/21/15
Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost, wildest and most hostile island, a place far removed from our conventional picture of the country. Every year it undergoes an astonishing seasonal shift, from bitter Siberian winter to warm Mediterranean-like summer. A host of remarkable animals live in this land of extremes, including enormous brown bears, rare red-crowned cranes and beautiful sika deer.

About this show

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.

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4.6
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Jonathan Davis
January 19, 2020
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January 29, 2020
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