Document 72 Hours (2013)

Points of departure: new chitose airport

Underground idols

Night clinic: an er of last resort

The live-streamers: interactive webcasting

The "rain, then fine" coin laundry

Climbing mt. fuji

Home is where the locker is; the day laborers of osaka

Yanaka cemetery: dialogs between death and life

Personal glimpses at a 24-hour gym

Printing handheld memories

The game center, and the prize beyond the prize

The makeup room

The voyage of life on a giant ferry

One tower, many lives

The call of the dunes

A 24/7 discount store

A giant travel agency: destinations and detours

Night train to izumo: destination - destiny

The post office that never sleeps

Youth "hellowork" - a job agency

An all-night eatery

A giant bookstore: wandering in a world of words

Self storage: secrets and memories

Mt. osore: between life and death

Wrestlers on the road

The 24-hour supermarket: just another day

At a gas station in a downpour

A 260-person "sharehouse"

A 24/7 animal hospital: when a pet needs a vet

At a train station in fukushima

The ameyoko international food market

General hospital store: where shopping meets healing

Dreams along the yamanote line

Lost and found in nagoya: left behind on a holy night

A discounted ticket to happiness

A standing oden bar in tokyo

A taste of home: a soba & udon vending machine

A driving school: the start of many journeys

Tokyo capsule hotel: encapsulating life

A used car, a new life

Yakushima: island of the mystical tree

A kebab restaurant in roppongi

A drive-in restaurant in okinawa: hometown flavor, american style

The lucky cat at the shopping street

Tonkotsu ramen restaurant: bowls for the soul

Japans northernmost bus stop

Voices in front of the diet

An iconic hotel: until we meet again

Life on the squid hunt

A video transfer shop: replaying the past

Up and away with low-cost carriers

A secret workshop in akihabara

Kappabashi: tokyo's kitchen capital

Christmas at the bus terminal

Benches and people: an osaka shopping arcade

Valentine's day at the shrine

Farewell funabashi auto

Tales over rice bowls

At the food court

Route 439: japan's last frontier

The ferry to volcano island

A nostalgic roller coaster ride

Kyoto's kamo river delta

Faces behind an online auction

A women's prison: up-close and personal

Obon with a bang in nagasaki

People-watching at a monster hotspot

Where cultures and meat meet

The little station and the sea

Golf driving range: slices of life

Art supply heaven in tokyo

Starlit tales from a nagano tent village

Daycare center in fukuoka's nightlife district

The traveling ballot box

Behind the masks: halloween in roppongi

From okinawa to the world and back

Lines and lives at airport immigration

A cafe awaits in omiya

Jellyfish wonderland

The melodies of a street piano in miyazaki

Tokyo's crossroads of life

New bags, new beginnings

Small funerals in a big city

Fabric and buttons and me

Thoughts and reflections on a rooftop ferris wheel

Mt. kongo: a climb to the webcam

Truck stop: a break on life's journey

The daily life of a tokyo mosque

Mountain restaurant: creating and reliving memories

Life without a smartphone

Born to be wild: motorcyclists' road to happiness

When a man shines his shoes

Printing shop: lives in print

Bento tales from a northern fishing town

Christmas at a 24-hour bakery

Heading home on the strait ferry

A park where dreams take wing

Lives along route 45

The traveling library truck

A spring miracle: the firefly squid of toyama

The women on the cosmetics floor

The race before the japanese derby

The great hospital move

Relaxing in a nagoya café

Hooked on fishing in tokyo bay

The sight beyond the undersea tunnel

Surviving the summer with fresh juice

From the remittance office with love

Hakodate's hamburgers of happiness

Tokyo station: meet me at the "silver bell"

3333 stones: japan's longest flight of steps

The diyers of the suburban home center

A matchmaking lounge in sendai

New year countdown at the airport

A barter chain in osaka

A realtor in fukuoka: opening the door to new lives

Flipping backward, looking forward

Small island, big send-offs

Jumokuso: resting beneath a cherry tree

A rotary in a student town: meeting spot, melting pot

Shibuya post office: countdown to a new era

Fasting retreat: a break for the body and mind

Catching goldfish at a fishing pond in tokyo

Wig shop: a new appearance, a new self

Bargain shoes for the next step in life

A new life away from bustling tokyo

Nurse visits: home is where the heart is

From town to town on hokkaido's blood donation bus

Lines and lives at airport immigration

Chasing dreams in a shared office space

Toothy smiles and dental woes: a 24-hour dentist's office

A toast to life

A 400k "survival run" in okinawa

Akihabara: infatuated with electronics

Home for the holidays: a supermarket in fukushima

Big fish, big dreams

Spilling the beans at a coffee stall

From gang ties to business suits

10-year milestones in bikers' life journeys

Mountain views, life insights

Climbing the walls of life

Inside japan's largest freight terminal

Osaka castle park: the park that never sleeps

Finding solace at inokashira park

Tanabata wishes at a tokyo temple

Muscle and bustle: a 24-hour gym in tokyo

Small wedding stories

Tokyo taxi oasis

Adios, el dorado carousel!

Seeds of happiness at a tokyo garden center

Giving kitchen equipment new homes

The zoo on a hill

Sapporo born and bread: a 24-hour sandwich shop

Opening new doors at a furniture outlet store

Shimanami kaido: a ride along life's cycle

Tanga: the market with a big heart

Seeing out 2020 in the heart of tokyo bay

Fukushima bento shop: serving meals and hope

New beginnings from an osaka bus terminal

Life stories at a hospital convenience store

Tokyo dry cleaner's: reviving clothes, reliving memories

Water taxis: across the sea and beyond

Quiet prayers at a secluded shrine

Starting fresh: one-stop uniform shop

Tokyo stationery store: messages from the heart

The station under the cherry blossoms

Warming body and heart at a yakiimo shop

Fireworks shop: lighting up a quiet summer

Salvaging bargains at a tokyo grocery store

At an underground bicycle parking lot

The fishermen's convenience store

Hair and makeup salon: grooming the eyebrows and mind

Boards and bonds at a 24-hour skateboard park

Finding your style at a used clothing store

Nursing school: nurturing the next nightingales

Seeking a sweet finish to another busy year

Bidding farewell to an amusement park

Tsugaru railway: a midwinter lifeline

The supermarket on wheels

Heartfelt flowers from a miyagi florist

A shinjuku cell phone store

Capturing happy moments in a photo booth

Plastic model shop: a hobby making worlds come alive

Nature's treasure hunt on a niigata beach

The vegetable "vending machine" in tokyo

Asakusa's rakugo theater: filling lives with laughs

Fluttering yellow handkerchiefs at a seaside station

Osaka shaved ice shop: midsummer memories

The lure of a 24-hour fishing shop

Korokke pan shop: happiness in a bun

Udon vending machines on route 9: an oasis for drivers

A cat temple: soothing the mind and soul

Lifting spirits in a tokyo liquor store

University art festival: portrait of campus days

At a small kobe okonomiyaki shop

A quiet pier in minamiboso

Ringing in the new year at a fukuoka bus terminal

The convenience store in a midwinter hokkaido village

Amami oshima: on the radio

Behind the headlines at ofunato's local newspaper

Saying farewell to once-loved dolls at hofu tenmangu shrine

Sakura in the seto inland sea

The aomori shrine where "umineko" soar

At a hospital roof garden

Nishinomiya's "manbow tunnel" under the tracks

Early summer on the kisoji

See you in osaka's korea town

At a tokyo insect store

Yomotsu hirasaka: between this world and the next

At a standing bar beside fukuoka's boat racing stadium

Nagano: watching for hawks

At a 24-hour roadside restaurant in okayama

Farewell to a hyogo chairlift

At a 24-hour chinese restaurant in a tokyo suburb

The bench by lake biwa

Nature's bounty at an okayama community garden

Ueno: a discount women's clothing store

At shinjuku's 24-hour drugstore

Kerosene delivery service in snowy sapporo

Fukushima: an ice cream shop in winter

Spinning on at a 24-hour osaka laundromat

A 24-hour discount supermarket in osaka

A midnight soba shop in akita

Fresh starts at a yokohama electronics store

Life voyages on a sea of japan ferry

A low-priced gas station in wakayama

Lives inside a huge "danchi" housing complex

A local penny candy shop in tokyo

A mobile "warabi mochi" cart in fukuoka

A farmers' market in inadani, nagano

Praying for blue skies at tokyo's weather shrine

An everyday family diner in tokyo

Beyond the books at a kanazawa library

At a huge thrift store in saitama

A martial arts gym in tokyo

A winding road through the kii mountains

A midsummer service area on awaji island

A niigata drive-through restaurant in winter

The lure of token games at an amusement arcade

A supermarket in snowy iwate

At a 24-hour ramen restaurant in fukuoka

Journeys up and down a steep road in tokyo

Student life in a multicultural dorm

Bonsai village: growing a small universe in a pot

At a prefab soba restaurant in aomori
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