Choice of the Week（Week of December 13, 2011 programs）

■NHK Special
〜 Shattering the Myth of Infallibility - Witness accounts of the Fukushima crisis - 〜

The massive tsunami destroyed "the myth of security." Analyzing discussions within the Nuclear Safety Commission and interviews with those involved, we look for the root cause of the nuclear accident.

■Sense and Sensitivity
〜 A Conversation with Donald Keene 〜

Professor Donald Keene moved to Japan in September to show his love for the country by becoming a Japanese citizen. In our interview, the 89-year-old praises the fortitude of the Japanese that so impressed the world in the quake's aftermath.

■LAST ARTISANS
〜 Bathing with Mt. Fuji 〜

Amazing murals cover the walls of Japan's neighborhood bathhouses, known as sentō. We meet Morio Nakajima, one of the last two sentō muralists, and a master at painting Mt. Fuji.

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• massive
• tsunami
• Nuclear
• Donald
• Keene
• quake
• sentō