Japanology Plus (2014)
Japanology Plus (2014)
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Plot.
Host Peter Barakan delves into various aspects of Japanese culture; exploring practices, history, and modern innovations in such areas as ramen, rice, sushi, geisha, bonsai, and so much more. Local experts discuss their passions at fascinating length, and American Japanophile Matt Alt experiences the food, practices, and cultures in each episode in depth. Viewers will finish each half hour episode with a new understanding of an area of Japanese life through demonstrative videos and explanations, all delivered respectfully and true to the Japanese way of life.
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Cast & Crew.

Peter Barakan
Self - Host

Kanako Sachno
Self - Narrator (voice)

Randy Channell
Self

Emma Howard
Self - Narrator (voice) / Self - Guest

Matt Alt
Self - Reporter in Plus One / Self - Guest

Norio Teranuma
Camera Operator

Kanehisa Okuda
Camera Operator

Noboru Abe
Camera Operator

Ryu Arimoto
Camera Operator

Yoshihiro Fukuda
Camera Operator

Hiroko Baba
Camera Operator

Yusuke Sakamoto
Camera Operator

Yuta Negishi
Camera Operator

Daisuke Shimizu
Other

Taiki Ikemura
Camera Operator

Shusaku Tohara
Camera Operator

Hidekazu Sasaki
Camera Operator

Tatsuo Higuchi
Camera Operator

Hajime Wada
Camera Operator

Fumie Sekine
Camera Operator

Hitoshi Sakurada
Camera Operator

Kenji Wakabayashi
Camera Operator

Noriyuki Hikino
Camera Operator

Satoshi Hasegawa
Camera Operator

Futoshi Ishida
Camera Operator

Masami Suzuki
Camera Operator

Masanao Onozuka
Camera Operator

Horita Katsuya
Camera Operator

Tetsuro Shimomura
Camera Operator

Naoto Ishioka
Camera Operator

Hirami Susumu
Camera Operator

James Morimoto Yuya
Camera Operator / Director

Hitoshi Nishiyama
Director

Mamoru Abe
Director

Hidetoshi Yanagihara
Director

Shogo Kawahara
Director / Editor

Kensuke Kubo
Director

Hiroshi Nishiyama
Director

Takamitsu Motomochi
Director

Masaru Sasaki
Director

Yoko Urago
Director

Shoko Zukemura
Director

Shingo Doita
Director

Mika Nakajima
Director

Hiro Kay
Director

Masami Watanabe
Director

Hiroshi Takagi
Director

Kimitaka Suzuki
Director

Aki Shimizu
Director

Hirotaka Ohata
Director

Jun Afuso
Editor

Gen Koshiba
Editor

Hitomi Nemoto
Editor

Hidetoshi Isaka
Editor

Jun Yamamoto
Editor

Daigoro Okabe
Editor

Hitoshi Kato
Editor

Ikumi Oyama
Editor

Toshiyuki Ajiro
Editor

Shuhei Nakamura
Editor

Kazutoshi Onuma
Lighting Technician

Yukio Kobayashi
Lighting Technician

Keiichi Okumura
Lighting Technician / Sound Recordist

Natsuki Totsuka
Lighting Technician

Yasuhiro Sawaguchi
Lighting Technician

Tatsuya Tanaka
Lighting Technician

Nanako Ono
Lighting Technician

Shizuka Onuma
Lighting Technician

Hiroaki Iijima
Lighting Technician / Sound Recordist / Sound

Tomokazu Hirota
Lighting Technician

Yoshimasa Yamazaki
Lighting Technician

Takahisa Matsuzaki
Lighting Technician

Masayuki Omura
Lighting Technician

Hayato Murakami
Lighting Technician

Suzuki Yoshimasa
Lighting Technician

Yuji Toda
Lighting Technician

Atsushi Ishida
Lighting Technician

Koichi Nakamura
Lighting Technician

Yasuhiko Tsuji
Lighting Technician

Gunatilaka Wasantha
Lighting Technician

Kento Yahagi
Lighting Technician

Michio Suda
Lighting Technician

Ken Kumata
Executive Producer

Naoko Fujimura
Producer

Sachiko Miyamoto
Executive Producer

Chiyo Kawahara
Executive Producer

Shinya Kikuchi
Executive Producer

Aya Umeda
Producer

Mika Kanaya
Executive Producer

Yoshihiro Tamura
Executive Producer

Tomohiro Oi
Executive Producer

Jun Ito
Executive Producer

Takako Hikita
Executive Producer

Wataru Hoshii
Producer

Keiko Katoh
Producer

Minako Katano
Producer

Kensuke Miyauchi
Executive Producer

Koji Takayanagi
Executive Producer

Yuriko Kawaike
Executive Producer

Kazunari Domitsu
Executive Producer

Hajime Sakita
Main Title Theme Composer / Theme Song Performance

rocomoon
Theme Song Performance

Tetra Tanizaki
Theme Song Performance

Miwa Yokomizo
Music Supervisor

Kenichiro Jo
Sound Engineer

Masaki Hirabayashi
Sound Engineer

Masanobu Kuroda
Music Supervisor

Yasuhiro Arihara
Sound Recordist / Sound Engineer

Hiroyuki Morita
Sound Recordist

Kahei Yasuhara
Sound Engineer

Satoru Ohata
Sound Recordist

Takashi Oura
Sound Engineer

Kozo Hosomi
Music Supervisor

Makoto Saegusa
Sound Recordist

Soma Orikasa
Sound

Kazuhiko Nakamura
Sound Recordist

Kimimasa Jobetto
Sound

Adam Fulford
Script Consultant

Satomi Furukawa
Script Consultant

Naoko Tomita
Script Consultant

Noriko Suzuki
Script Consultant

Kazutada Komine
Script Consultant

David McMahon
Self - Reporter in Plus One

Matt Schley
Self - Reporter in Plus One

Vinay Murthy
Self - Reporter in Plus One

Lemi Duncan
Self - Reporter in Plus One

Kanoa
Self - Reporter in Plus One

Hiroshi Tashiro
Self - Expert

Masahiko Urano
Self - Expert

Kenichiro Senoo
Self - Expert

Yoshihiro Senda
Self - Expert

Elizabeth Suzuki
Self

Everett Kennedy Brown
Self

Carolin Eckhardt
Self

Ayao Okumura
Self

Shozo Shibata
Self - Expert

Hitoshi Mogi
Self - Expert

Masataka Fujiwara
Self - Expert

Tetsuya Yamamoto
Self - Expert

Yoshihiro Akiyama
Self - Expert

Sachiko Yamaguchi
Self - Expert

Tomotaka Takahashi
Self - Expert

Miho Shinoda
Self - Expert

Nozomi Iida
Self - Expert

Kenjiro Ishida
Self - Expert

Hiroshi Nakadai
Self - Expert

J. Martin Holman
Self

Yuko Horiuchi
Self - Researcher, J. F. Oberlin University

Richard Halberstadt
Self

Sheila Cliffe
Self

Mateusz Urbanowicz
Self

Josh Grisdale
Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self (archive footage)

Peter MacMillan
Self

Chieko Mukasa
Self - Food Journalist

Manabu Akaike
Self - Science and Technology Journalist

Takeo Akiyama
Self - Longtime Hobbyist Photographer

Akiko Shiihara
Self - Expert

Shunichi Saito
Self - Sake Master Brewer

David E. Wells
Self

Emiko Masao
Self - 100-yen Shop Aficionado and Blogger

Adam Zgola
Self

Chotoku Tanaka
Self - Professional Photographer

Andrew Mancabelli
Self

Alex Bennett
Self

Yuji Suizu
Self - Driving Instructor

Akemi Masuda
Self - Sports Journalist and Former Olympic Athlete

Mamoru Tsuchiya
Self - Expert

Amir Takahashi
Self

Yasuto Hori
Self - Expert

Takahiro Tanaka
Self

Francesco Pantò
Self

Kyle Card
Self - Reporter in Plus One / Self - Guest

Benjamin Flatt
Self - Chef

Chad Mullane
Self - Comedian

Shozo Nagata
Self - Professor

Claudio Feliciani
Self

Gregory Khezrnejat
Self

Andrew Dewar
Self

Colleen Schmuckal
Self

Kyle Holzhueter
Self

Asa Ekstrom
Self - Manga Artist

Marty Friedman
Self

Isabelle Sasaki
Self

Nicholas Rennick
Self - Medical Doctor

Tom Hovasse
Self

Steve Tallon
Self

Ondrej Hybl
Self

David Atkinson
Self

Wolfgang Loeger
Self

Thomas Ainsworth
Self

Harold George Meij
Self

Johan Nilsson Björk
Self - Rakugo Performer

Kim Seungbok
Self

Gyoei Saile
Self

Anna Bugaeva
Self

Rezaul Karim Chowdhury
Self

Paul Lorimer
Self

Carine Lafitte
Self

Randy Channell Soei
Self

Zoe Vincent
Self

Yoram Ofer
Self

Nsenda Lukumwena
Self

Tyler Lynch
Self

Fernando Lopez
Self

Stephanie Tomiyasu
Self

Bjorn Heiberg
Self

Bruce Gutlove
Self

Jagmohan S. Chandrani
Self

David Stanley Hewett
Self

Thomas Bertrand
Self

Oussouby Sacko
Self

Bartholomeus Greb
Self

Maud Archambault
Self

Jorge Cabeza Fernandez
Self

Pico Iyer
Self

Izuhi Higashioka
Self - Expert

Shunji Akimoto
Self - Expert

Toshio Kadoya
Self - Expert

Kenji Kasai
Self - Expert

Taichiro Tsuji
Self - Expert

Yosuke Ikeda
Self - Expert

Ruth Marie Jarman
Self - Expert

Kikuo Yamamoto
Self - Expert

Takeshi Naganuma
Self - Expert

Masakatsu Uekusa
Self - Expert

Nobue Kunizaki
Self - Expert

Etsuko Yamada
Self - Expert

Denso Sugiura
Self - Expert

Mana Kumagai
Self - Expert

Ai Nagai
Self - Cook

Riho Sakakura
Self - Cook

Suenori Murayama
Self - Expert

Satoshi Okamoto
Self - Expert

Bhushan Ghimire
Self - Expert

Osamu Oba
Self - Expert

Daisuke Sasaki
Self - Expert

Mitsuaki Ohta
Self - Expert, Canine Researcher

Kyoko Mitsumata
Self - Expert

Takashi Uemura
Self - Expert

Kazuyuki Suzuki
Self - Expert

Nagisa Tatsumi
Self - Expert

Marie Kondo
Self - Expert

Yukihiro Yamada
Self - Expert

Tadanobu Yamaguchi
Self - Motorcycle Instructor

Wakky Kaiyama
Self - Expert

Mayuu Fudo
Self - Expert

Yoko Nagae
Self - Expert

Satomi Yamamoto
Self - Expert

Kyoko Kodama
Self - Expert

Hiroko Kimura
Self - Expert

Nobuhiko Koike
Self - Director, Chofu City Library

Ichiro Oda
Self - Expert

Hidetoshi Katori
Self - Physicist

Yoshikazu Suematsu
Self - Expert

Masanari Mizoguchi
Self - Expert

Takao Kobayashi
Self - Expert

Yu Hiroi
Self - Expert

Hidetsugu Ueno
Self - Barkeeper

Yorio Fujimoto
Self - Expert

Osamu Baba
Self - Expert

Tomoaki Kurihara
Self - Expert

Hidenobu Sakai
Self - Expert

Yoshihiro Sakai
Self - Expert

Kuniyo Hayashi
Self - Expert

Nobuo Harada
Self - Expert

Shigehito Kobayashi
Self - Expert

Yoshihiro Nakano
Self - Expert

Brother Tom
Self

Hirofumi Gomi
Self - Expert

Shoshu Hirai
Self - Expert

Yukio Toyoda
Self - Expert

Matthew Headland
Self - Guest

Todd Rundgren
Self - Guest

Rachel Henderson
Self - Guest, High School Teacher

James Coronel
Self - Guest

Don Smith
Self - Guest

Tetsuhito Fujiyama
Self - Expert

Shinichi Ishikawa
Self - Professor, Miyagi University

Naoto Tsuji
Self - Guest, Fuji Oil Employee

Naruki Tojima
Self - Guest

Toru Suzuki
Self - Guest

Kazuhiko Komatsu
Self - Guest (Director, International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

Hirokazu Kihara
Self - Guest

Katsunori Seki
Self - Onigiri Expert
Media.




Details.
Release DateApril 3, 2014
StatusReturning Series
Seasons12
Episodes326
Running Time28m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsJapan
Genres
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This TV Show Is About.
japan
japanese folklore
japanese tradition
change vs tradition
japanese society
japanese culture
way of life
arts and culture
arts and crafts
japanese history
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