Fragments of Japan / 紙片の日本史

One person's voice, left behind on paper.

Letters and diaries that never made it into the textbooks still survive today.
Scraps of paper left outside the main current of history — here, we call them "fragments."
One video at a time, we bring you the voice preserved on a single sheet, in a form whose sources you can verify.
These are not stories of heroes. They are the words of one person who truly breathed in their time.

• Every video has subtitles in 17 languages (via the CC button in settings)
• Portrayals of people are "interpretations" by stylized characters. Photographs and handwritten documents shown are the real items only
• Narration is an AI voice (we do not recreate the voices of real people)
• The places traced in our videos are on The Fragment Map → fragmentsjapan.com/map

Production principles: fragmentsjapan.com/principles
Contact: contact@fragmentsjapan.com