Is Documentary 360 coming back?
Documentary 360 (1999–present) on NHK World
The answer: Between seasons — last episode March 15, 2026, no return date announced yet.
23seasons
399episodes
About Documentary 360
Hard-hitting documentary series that takes an in-depth look at some of the political, economic, and social challenges that Japan and our world is facing.
Documentary 360 episode schedule
399 aired
Aired · 399
| Date | Ep. | Title |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2026 | S2026·E9 | Under Occupation: The Reality of Russification |
| February 22, 2026 | S2026·E8 | Unsolved Cases: The Beltracchi Scandal: The Master Forger Who Fooled the World |
| February 14, 2026 | S2026·E7 | Mahathir: Through the Winds of 100 Years |
| February 8, 2026 | S2026·E6 | The Truth Behind the "Bear Crisis" |
| January 31, 2026 | S2026·E5 | Inside the Los Angeles Wildfire Recovery |
| January 25, 2026 | S2026·E4 | Unsolved Cases: How Land Swindlers Deceived a Housing Giant |
| January 24, 2026 | S2026·E3 | An Israeli Village: Coexistence and Conflict |
| January 10, 2026 | S2026·E2 | Blind Spot: Unseen Neighbors |
| January 4, 2026 | S2026·E1 | Protecting Life and Hope Inside a Pediatric ICU |
| December 28, 2025 | S2025·E57 | NEO-JAPONISM: Senke Jusshoku: The Ten Craft Families of Tea Ceremony |
| December 27, 2025 | S2025·E56 | Reborn as AI: My Son's Story |
| December 21, 2025 | S2025·E55 | NEO-JAPONISM: Bon Odori: Rhythm and Connection |
| December 20, 2025 | S2025·E54 | In the Wake of Agent Orange: 50 Years After the Vietnam War |
| December 14, 2025 | S2025·E53 | Japan's Ongoing Challenges: The Long Path to Gender Equality |
| December 13, 2025 | S2025·E52 | Fading Homeland |
| December 7, 2025 | S2025·E51 | Japan's Ongoing Challenges: Hope at Life's End: From the Land of Longevity |
| December 6, 2025 | S2025·E50 | Elderly Cardboard Collectors: South Korea's Aging Society |
| November 30, 2025 | S2025·E49 | The Isolado Reemerge: Unknown Depths of the Amazon |
| November 29, 2025 | S2025·E48 | The Young Virtuosos: Inside the Chopin Competition |
| November 22, 2025 | S2025·E47 | The World Is Filled with Words: A Deaf Photographer's Journey |
| November 8, 2025 | S2025·E46 | Human-Elephant Conflict: Sri Lanka |
| November 2, 2025 | S2025·E44 | Unsolved Cases: The North Korean Abductions Part 1 |
| November 2, 2025 | S2025·E45 | Unsolved Cases: The North Korean Abductions Part 2 |
| October 25, 2025 | S2025·E43 | Living in the Grasslands |
| October 19, 2025 | S2025·E42 | One Man's Quest: Reviving Japan's Semiconductor Industry |
| October 18, 2025 | S2025·E41 | Hikikomori Pilgrimage |
| October 11, 2025 | S2025·E40 | Letters on Hiroshima: Americans Who Wrote of the Atomic Bomb |
| September 28, 2025 | S2025·E39 | Japan's Ongoing Challenges: A Testament to Japanese Diplomacy |
| September 27, 2025 | S2025·E38 | STATELESS: The Japanese Left Behind in the Philippines |
| September 21, 2025 | S2025·E37 | Japan's Ongoing Challenges: Inside the Bond Issue Team |
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| September 20, 2025 | S2025·E36 | Searching for the Japanese Midwife who Delivered Me |
| September 13, 2025 | S2025·E35 | Picture Brides: Echoes from Beyond the Frontier |
| August 31, 2025 | S2025·E34 | Hiroshima Ground Zero: Eyewitness Accounts of 78 A-Bomb Survivors |
| August 30, 2025 | S2025·E33 | The Atomic Bomb on Trial |
| August 24, 2025 | S2025·E32 | Quantum Entanglement - Einstein's Final Mystery |
| August 18, 2025 | S2025·E31 | Dance from the Darkness |
| August 10, 2025 | S2025·E30 | Kamikaze: An untold History Part 2 |
| August 9, 2025 | S2025·E29 | Kamikaze: An untold History Part 1 |
| July 20, 2025 | S2025·E28 | NEO-JAPONISM: DESIGN: The Magic of Japanese Craftsmanship |
| July 13, 2025 | S2025·E27 | NEO-JAPONISM: FOOD: Globalized Japanese Cuisine |
| July 6, 2025 | S2025·E26 | NEO-JAPONISM: J-POP: Vocaloid Goes Global |
| July 5, 2025 | S2025·E25 | Shinobu: Somebody Hear My Voice |
| June 28, 2025 | S2025·E24 | Railway Journey Across the Taklamakan Desert |
| June 15, 2025 | S2025·E23 | Forging Links: A Story of Wajima Lacquerware Artisans |
| June 7, 2025 | S2025·E22 | Wings Over Walls: Tearing Down the 20% Barrier |
| May 25, 2025 | S2025·E21 | "Will we be ready?": Lessons from the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake |
| May 24, 2025 | S2025·E20 | The Saga of Thalidomide Poisoning: The Lives of Thalidomiders: 60 Years On |
| May 3, 2025 | S2025·E19 | Witnesses to the Cambodian Genocide |
| April 27, 2025 | S2025·E18 | Kyiv Express: Ukraine's Everlasting Night Train |
| April 27, 2025 | S2025·E17 | ON THE EDGE: Daughters of Ukraine: Women on the Front Line |
| April 26, 2025 | S2025·E16 | Save and Be Saved: The Battle of Atomic Bomb Victims |
| April 20, 2025 | S2025·E15 | ON THE EDGE: The Deadly Escape Game of Refugees |
| April 19, 2025 | S2025·E14 | Lot 1000: The Place and the People |
| March 23, 2025 | S2025·E13 | Photographing the Edge: Life and Death at 8,000 Meters |
| March 22, 2025 | S2025·E12 | Raised in Hiroshima, Fought in Vietnam |
| March 16, 2025 | S2025·E11 | Flowers Still Bloom at Home: One Year after the Noto Earthquake |
| March 9, 2025 | S2025·E10 | 72 Crucial Hours: Responding to the Noto Earthquake |
| March 8, 2025 | S2025·E9 | Indictment: Survivors of Sexual Violence in Kosovo 25 Years Later |
| February 22, 2025 | S2025·E8 | My Grandfather's Story: A Japanese Holdout in Indonesia |
| February 16, 2025 | S2025·E7 | INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIONS: Blind Spots in Climate Measures |
| February 15, 2025 | S2025·E6 | Kalakasan: Empowering Filipino Women in Japan |
| February 9, 2025 | S2025·E5 | 58 Stolen Years: Two Siblings on the Road to Freedom |
| February 2, 2025 | S2025·E4 | Meals for One: Recipes to Soothe the Soul |
| January 26, 2025 | S2025·E3 | Discharged by Death: Dark Records from a Japanese Mental Hospital |
| January 19, 2025 | S2025·E2 | Seeds of Peace: Bright Young Minds on the Path to Nuclear Abolition |
| January 18, 2025 | S2025·E1 | Egg Farming Family |
| December 29, 2024 | S2024·E21 | Decoding the Chinese Document Leaks |
| December 22, 2024 | S2024·E20 | Hiroshima's Tower of Life |
| December 15, 2024 | S2024·E19 | Why Did My Husband Die?: Unsealing the Secrets of Radiation Exposure |
| November 24, 2024 | S2024·E18 | Amazing Story of a Frozen River |
| October 27, 2024 | S2024·E17 | "Until the last one is dead": Voices from the Battle of Saipan |
| October 20, 2024 | S2024·E16 | I Owe My Life to You, Doc: A Seaside Clinic Diary |
| September 29, 2024 | S2024·E15 | Sexual Exploitation of Minors Part 2: The International CSAM Trade |
| September 22, 2024 | S2024·E14 | Sexual Exploitation of Minors Part 1: Japan's Voyeurism Problem |
| September 8, 2024 | S2024·E13 | Kamila Valieva: Despair on the Ice - The Fate of Russian Athletes |
| August 18, 2024 | S2024·E12 | Chasing Perfection: Four Seasons with Japan's Master Gardeners |
| July 14, 2024 | S2024·E11 | The Missing: Lost Loved Ones with Dementia |
| June 30, 2024 | S2024·E10 | Decommissioning Fukushima 2024: Roadmap on the Brink |
| June 23, 2024 | S2024·E9 | The H3 Rocket: Flight After Failure |
| June 16, 2024 | S2024·E8 | Local Officials Speak Out: Remembering the Disaster |
| May 26, 2024 | S2024·E7 | This is Our Sea: Fukushima's Fishers after the Nuclear Accident |
| May 5, 2024 | S2024·E6 | Justice Redefined: Ukraine's Frontline Journalists |
| April 14, 2024 | S2024·E5 | Ukraine's Civilian Soldiers: The War Recorded on Smartphones |
| April 7, 2024 | S2024·E4 | New Era of J-POP and K-POP: Setting the World on Fire |
| March 31, 2024 | S2024·E3 | INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIONS - North Korea's Black Box: Secret Missile Development |
| February 25, 2024 | S2024·E2 | INNOVATIVE INVESTIGATIONS: The Truth Behind China's Economic Stagnation |
| January 21, 2024 | S2024·E1 | Living as "2nd-Generation" of Religious Devotees |
| December 10, 2023 | S2023·E18 | Mystery Man of the A-Bomb |
| November 19, 2023 | S2023·E17 | The Great Kanto Earthquake - Three Days of Ruin in Tokyo: Part 2 |
| November 12, 2023 | S2023·E16 | The Great Kanto Earthquake - Three Days of Ruin in Tokyo: Part 1 |
| October 22, 2023 | S2023·E15 | Youth Falling into a Life of Crime |
| October 1, 2023 | S2023·E14 | The Devil's Gorge: Mapping No Man's Land in the Himalayas |
| August 13, 2023 | S2023·E13 | Reviving Japan's Economy: Breaking Free of 3 Decades of Stagnation |
| July 2, 2023 | S2023·E12 | Mapping the Recovery: Shoots of Hope in Japan's 2011 Disaster Zone |
| June 18, 2023 | S2023·E11 | A Hospital Once Stood by the Sea: 12 Years since the Tsunami |
| May 28, 2023 | S2023·E10 | Ukraine under Attack: 72 Hours in the Presidential Office Part 2 |
| May 21, 2023 | S2023·E9 | Ukraine under Attack: 72 Hours in the Presidential Office Part 1 |
| April 23, 2023 | S2023·E8 | UN Security Council: Battlefield of Words |
| April 16, 2023 | S2023·E7 | A Nation Built on Trade: Japan in a Deglobalizing World |
| March 26, 2023 | S2023·E6 | My Mom Has Dementia: A Neuroscientist's Care Diary |
| March 12, 2023 | S2023·E5 | Humans vs. Wildfires |
| March 5, 2023 | S2023·E4 | Shining Lives: Living with Developmental Disabilities |
| February 19, 2023 | S2023·E3 | North Korea: Kim Jong Un's Deepening Radicalism |
| January 29, 2023 | S2023·E2 | OSO18 - In Pursuit of a Deadly Bear |
| January 22, 2023 | S2023·E1 | Hong Kong's Changing Tides: Freedom and Democracy in High Water |
| November 27, 2022 | S2022·E11 | Will to Survive: 900 Days in the COVID Ward |
| November 6, 2022 | S2022·E10 | 8000 Stolen Futures: The Children at the Center of the A-Bomb |
| October 30, 2022 | S2022·E9 | Tamahagane: Miracle Steel of Japanese Swords |
| October 16, 2022 | S2022·E8 | Conveying the Horrors of War: Ukraine's Frontline Journalists |
| September 11, 2022 | S2022·E7 | Tracking China's Mystery Ships: The Race for Seabed Supremacy |
| August 28, 2022 | S2022·E6 | From Foe to Fortune: Living with Nuisance Wildlife |
| July 17, 2022 | S2022·E5 | Young Carers: A Silent Cry for Help |
| June 19, 2022 | S2022·E4 | Myanmar Conflict: No End in Sight |
| May 22, 2022 | S2022·E3 | Diary of a Nun's Abundant Kitchen |
| March 13, 2022 | S2022·E2 | Resurgence of the Seas: Natural Spectacles in Northern Waters |
| January 23, 2022 | S2022·E1 | The Impact of the EV Shift: Japan's Carmakers at a Crossroads |
| December 19, 2021 | S2021·E27 | The Pride of Yokozuna: Hakuho's Lone Battle |
| November 14, 2021 | S2021·E26 | The Dementia Mentors: Lessons from my Senior Peers |
| October 31, 2021 | S2021·E25 | Prayers for the Pandemic: 1,300 Years of Ritual at Todaiji |
| October 10, 2021 | S2021·E24 | Who Will Protect You?: Global Warming Unleashes Torrential Rain |
| October 3, 2021 | S2021·E23 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: AI Warfare - The Dark Abyss of Autonomous Weapons |
| September 19, 2021 | S2021·E22 | Myanmar in Turmoil: The Inside Story on the Military Crackdown |
| September 11, 2021 | S2021·E21 | Vision Hackers: Updated Takes on Saving the World |
| September 5, 2021 | S2021·E20 | TOKYO REBORN: Shibuya - Transforming a "Monster" |
| August 22, 2021 | S2021·E19 | Choose Life: Helping Young People at Risk |
| August 8, 2021 | S2021·E18 | TOKYO REBORN: The Metropolitan Expressway - The City's Artery |
| July 26, 2021 | S2021·E17 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Playing God - Editing the Building Blocks of Life |
| June 27, 2021 | S2021·E16 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Plastic Pollution - The Toxic Cost of Mass Consumption |
| June 20, 2021 | S2021·E15 | Unknown Stories Revealed by Fixed-Point Cameras |
| May 30, 2021 | S2021·E14 | Decommissioning Fukushima 2021: Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident |
| May 23, 2021 | S2021·E13 | Inasa: Whispers on the Wind |
| May 9, 2021 | S2021·E12 | Voices of the Children: 10 Years After the Disaster |
| May 2, 2021 | S2021·E11 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Hunger Pandemic - The Catastrophic Cost of Excess |
| April 25, 2021 | S2021·E10 | Myanmar Coup: Digital Resistance |
| April 18, 2021 | S2021·E9 | Origins of the Pandemic: Part 2 Uncontrolled Spread |
| April 11, 2021 | S2021·E8 | Origins of the Pandemic: Part 1 The Beginning |
| March 21, 2021 | S2021·E7 | 2030 At a Crossroads to the Future: Climate in Crisis - Realizing a Net Zero World |
| February 28, 2021 | S2021·E6 | Tsuneta Daiki: Creation through Destruction |
| February 14, 2021 | S2021·E5 | Miracle Body: Breaking Limits with Hyper-Adaptability |
| February 8, 2021 | S2021·E4 | COVID-19: AI Decodes the Research |
| January 31, 2021 | S2021·E3 | Women's Livelihoods in Crisis: Bearing the Brunt of the Pandemic |
| January 18, 2021 | S2021·E2 | Dying Out of Sight: Hikikomori in an Aging Japan |
| January 4, 2021 | S2021·E1 | Digital vs. Real: Digital Twin - The End of Privacy? |
| December 27, 2020 | S2020·E38 | Digital vs. Real: Infodemic - The Onslaught of Fake News |
| December 7, 2020 | S2020·E37 | Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz |
| November 30, 2020 | S2020·E36 | Hong Kong in Turmoil: A Crisis of Identity |
| November 22, 2020 | S2020·E35 | Tokyo Miracle City: Shinise - Tokyo's Time-Honored Businesses |
| November 15, 2020 | S2020·E34 | COVID-19 Pandemic: Transforming the Way We Work |
| November 1, 2020 | S2020·E33 | The Battle of Okinawa |
| October 18, 2020 | S2020·E32 | Tokyo Miracle City: Anime - Captivating the World Frame by Frame |
| October 11, 2020 | S2020·E31 | Leaving No One Behind |
| October 4, 2020 | S2020·E30 | Tokyo Miracle City: Gargantuan Rail Network - The Passionate Pursuit of Punctuality |
| September 27, 2020 | S2020·E29 | Civilians in the Crossfire: The Battle of Okinawa |
| September 19, 2020 | S2020·E28 | COVID-19 Pandemic: 132 Critical Days (Part 2) |
| September 14, 2020 | S2020·E27 | COVID-19 Pandemic: 132 Critical Days (Part 1) |
| September 7, 2020 | S2020·E26 | Abe Shinzo Resigns: What Next for Japan? |
| August 31, 2020 | S2020·E25 | Tokyo Miracle City: Gourmet Capital - Keeping Alive the Spirit of Tsukiji |
| July 27, 2020 | S2020·E24 | Battling the Virus: On the Front Lines of Medical Care |
| July 20, 2020 | S2020·E23 | Deadly Rain: Finding the "Switch" to Save Lives |
| July 13, 2020 | S2020·E22 | Bearman of Hokkaido |
| July 6, 2020 | S2020·E21 | COVID-19: The Next Wave |
| June 29, 2020 | S2020·E20 | A Fight on Two Fronts: Floods and the Coronavirus |
| June 14, 2020 | S2020·E19 | The Iron Road |
| June 6, 2020 | S2020·E18 | We're In This Together: Life with the pandemic |
| June 1, 2020 | S2020·E17 | The Path Forward: Surviving the "With Corona" Era |
| May 25, 2020 | S2020·E16 | COVID-19: Big Data Battles the Virus |
| May 16, 2020 | S2020·E15 | Coronavirus: Exit Which Way? |
| May 9, 2020 | S2020·E14 | COVID-19: Battle on the Cruise Ship |
| May 2, 2020 | S2020·E13 | The Coronavirus State of Emergency: Medical and Economic Prospects |
| April 25, 2020 | S2020·E12 | COVID-19: Japan Under a State of Emergency |
| April 18, 2020 | S2020·E11 | Battle on the Brink: The Coronavirus Crisis |
| April 12, 2020 | S2020·E10 | COVID-19: Preventing an Explosive Surge of Infections |
| April 4, 2020 | S2020·E9 | The Mystery of the 40-Meter Tsunami: The Great East Japan Disaster |
| April 3, 2020 | S2020·E8 | The Corona Shock: Can We Avoid an Economic Crisis? |
| March 28, 2020 | S2020·E7 | Invisible Homeless: People Living in Cars |
| March 26, 2020 | S2020·E6 | COVID-19: Fighting a Pandemic |
| March 21, 2020 | S2020·E5 | The Huawei Shock |
| March 14, 2020 | S2020·E4 | The Children of the Earthquake |
| February 22, 2020 | S2020·E3 | Living Dementia |
| January 25, 2020 | S2020·E2 | My Notebooks: Seven Years of Tiny Great Adventures |
| January 18, 2020 | S2020·E1 | The Leonardo da Vinci Enigma: Unraveling the Secrets of Genius |
| December 21, 2019 | S2019·E26 | The Supreme Imperial Collection: The Shosoin Treasures and the Birth of Japan |
| December 14, 2019 | S2019·E25 | The Words of Emperor Showa: Records of Imperial Audiences |
| November 30, 2019 | S2019·E24 | "Death Doulas" for Businesses: End-of-Life Care for Dying Companies |
| November 9, 2019 | S2019·E23 | The Great Metropolitan Blackout: Preparing for Crisis |
| October 12, 2019 | S2019·E22 | The Fall of Freedom - How a newspaper led Japan to war |
| October 5, 2019 | S2019·E21 | The People and Their Emperor |
| September 28, 2019 | S2019·E20 | A New Peace Memorial Museum: Passing on Hiroshima's Message |
| September 21, 2019 | S2019·E19 | Hyakumikai: A Rare Glimpse into Kyoto's Inner Parlors |
| September 14, 2019 | S2019·E18 | Han-gure: An Emerging Threat to Society |
| August 31, 2019 | S2019·E17 | Death of a Dream: Vietnamese Workers in Japan |
| August 24, 2019 | S2019·E16 | A Right to the End |
| August 17, 2019 | S2019·E15 | Who Will Protect You? Global Warming Unleashes Torrential Rain |
| July 20, 2019 | S2019·E14 | From Despair to Recovery: The Era of Regenerative Medicine |
| July 6, 2019 | S2019·E13 | US-China Tech War |
| June 29, 2019 | S2019·E12 | AI Robots: Friend or Foe? |
| June 22, 2019 | S2019·E11 | New Roles in a Changing World: The Japan Self-Defense Forces |
| June 15, 2019 | S2019·E10 | Yui and Bailey the Therapy Dog |
| May 25, 2019 | S2019·E9 | Nobel Laureate Salaryman: Staying Ahead in Science and Technology |
| May 18, 2019 | S2019·E8 | Decommissioning Fukushima Daiichi: Tackling Nuclear Fuel Debris |
| April 21, 2019 | S2019·E7 | Aurá: Last Survivor of An Unknown Tribe |
| April 14, 2019 | S2019·E6 | Black Tsunami |
| March 30, 2019 | S2019·E5 | Rescue Triage: Learning from Disasters |
| February 24, 2019 | S2019·E4 | Tokyo's Lost Islands: Sofugan |
| February 17, 2019 | S2019·E3 | Tokyo's Lost Islands: Minami Iwo-to |
| January 27, 2019 | S2019·E2 | The Choshi River: Seeing the Unseeable |
| January 20, 2019 | S2019·E1 | Orcas: Mysterious Gathering at Shiretoko |
| December 30, 2018 | S2018·E35 | Roots of TOKYO: Edo, City of Fire |
| December 29, 2018 | S2018·E34 | Roots of TOKYO: Edo, City of Water |
| December 23, 2018 | S2018·E33 | AI: Shaping the Future |
| December 16, 2018 | S2018·E32 | Hiroshima: Solving the Genetic Puzzle |
| December 9, 2018 | S2018·E31 | Finding Einstein's Brain |
| December 2, 2018 | S2018·E30 | Sperm Crisis |
| November 25, 2018 | S2018·E29 | THE BODY: Longevity - Secrets of Aging Well |
| November 18, 2018 | S2018·E28 | THE BODY: The Beginnings of Life - Prenatal Chats of Mother and Baby |
| November 11, 2018 | S2018·E27 | THE BODY: Brain - Mechanisms of Inspiration and Memory |
| November 4, 2018 | S2018·E26 | A Big Circus Family |
| October 28, 2018 | S2018·E25 | Nebuta 2018: Love and Rivalry |
| October 21, 2018 | S2018·E24 | THE BODY: Gut - Key to a Healthy Immune System |
| October 14, 2018 | S2018·E23 | THE BODY: Bones - Fountain of Youth and Power |
| October 7, 2018 | S2018·E22 | THE BODY: Fat and Muscle - Powerful Allies for Health |
| September 23, 2018 | S2018·E20 | Station Children: Japanese Orphans of WWⅡ |
| September 16, 2018 | S2018·E19 | My Grandfather's War: Battle of Luzon |
| September 9, 2018 | S2018·E18 | THE BODY: Kidneys - Keys to Health and Longevity |
| September 2, 2018 | S2018·E17 | THE BODY: Our Remarkable Inner Network |
| July 29, 2018 | S2018·E16 | Missing Workers |
| July 22, 2018 | S2018·E15 | Shrinking Japan: Tackling a Worker Shortage |
| July 1, 2018 | S2018·E14 | Cryptocurrency War |
| June 3, 2018 | S2018·E13 | Ghost Blood Vessels |
| May 27, 2018 | S2018·E12 | Meltdown: Cooling Water Crisis |
…and 169 earlier episodes not shown. Long-running show.