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Hometown Stories
Season 13 · Episode 30
Plum Promoter-in-Chief
0.025mDecember 15, 2024
Minabe Town in western Japan is renowned for its ume plums. The town even has an official ume chief, who is eager to promote the fruit's appeal after hail and unusual weather hit this year's harvest.
Episodes
- Episode 1Korean Family Meals for Rural Japan
- Episode 2A School for Two
- Episode 3A Mosque in a Japanese Community
- Episode 4Nagasaki's Long-Forgotten Choir
- Episode 5Conquering Peaks on One Leg
- Episode 6Nepalese Students Find a Taste of Home
- Episode 7Taxi Drivers in a Tsunami-hit Town
- Episode 8Life Lessons by a Crystal-Clear River
- Episode 9Hiking Guide Connects Hearts
- Episode 10New Approach to an Old Festival
- Episode 11Navigating a World with Words
- Episode 12Pearls for Remembrance
- Episode 13Forging Bonds Under a Starry Sky
- Episode 14From Seed to Shop: Grandma's Pickles
- Episode 15New Face for a Centuries-Old Dance
- Episode 16Mending Hearts with Mandarin Oranges
- Episode 17Holy Fire on the Mountain
- Episode 18A Ranch for Retired Racehorses
- Episode 19Hiroshima's A-Bomb Survivor Trees
- Episode 20A Year as a Young Rural Doctor
- Episode 21Carrying on in a Quake-hit Town
- Episode 22Modern Maiko Diaries
- Episode 23Leaving No Stone Unturned: A Potter's Quest
- Episode 24Reviving a Pottery Tradition in Fukushima
- Episode 25A Country Town's Woolly Heroes
- Episode 26Making a Home in Osaka
- Episode 27Together Through Dementia
- Episode 28Living with the Bounty of the Sea: 13 Years on from the Tsunami
- Episode 29Making Art with Autism
- Episode 30Plum Promoter-in-Chief
- Episode 31Sailing the Seas on a Sabani