JAPAN: The Country That Built the Future Inside Its Past | 4K Travel Documentary

👇 Everything we curated for this Japan episode. Tours, books, cookbooks, cultural resources. There is a company in Osaka that has built Buddhist temples since the year 578, run by the same family for forty generations. Two hours away, a train carries ten billion passengers at 320 kilometers an hour and has never killed one in sixty years. The same small country holds both, and treats neither as a contradiction. This is the story of how Japan learned that the way to build the future is to keep rebuilding the past, from the shrine at Ise that is taken down and raised again every twenty years, to the bullet train with a nose shaped like a kingfisher. In this documentary, discover how Japan rebuilt itself after the Black Ships and after the 2011 tsunami, and why a shrinking population now tests the one thing this country does best, passing things down. 📚 BROWSE THE JAPAN COLLECTION Every book, cookbook, and cultural item we'd recommend for this episode → https://amzn.to/4erhDoR 🛍️ SEE OUR FULL W.O.E. STOREFRONT Every destination Collection in one place → https://www.amazon.com/shop/whereonearth 🎟️ TOURS AND EXPERIENCES IN JAPAN Find tours, day trips, and experiences across Japan → https://shorturl.at/DXezH Browse all Japan experiences → https://shorturl.at/DGfMg 📖 PLAN YOUR JAPAN TRIP Lonely Planet Japan, the current full-country guidebook → https://amzn.to/4oimN9Z Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook and Dictionary → https://amzn.to/4xd3Nhe 📚 GO DEEPER INTO JAPAN Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower, the Pulitzer Prize winning history of how Japan rebuilt after 1945 → https://amzn.to/4oiwJAz In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki, the classic essay on Japanese aesthetics behind wabi-sabi and kintsugi → https://amzn.to/4ecSFZ8 🍲 BRING JAPAN HOME Japan: The Cookbook by Nancy Singleton Hachisu, more than 400 home recipes → https://amzn.to/3Q4urIy Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, the Taschen edition with The Great Wave → https://amzn.to/4uSu2I9 Take a breath. Stay a while. 🌍 Every Where on Earth journey, all in one place →    • Where on Earth: 4K Travel Documentary   🔔 Subscribe →    / @whereonearth   This description contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate and partner of Viator and GetYourGuide, we earn a small commission on qualifying purchases and bookings at no extra cost to you. This helps support the channel at no extra cost to you. #Japan #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #Kyoto #MountFuji