S12·E7 – Life Stories at a Hospital Convenience Store
2021-04-02 • 30 min
A large hospital with over 600 beds in Kamakura City. The stage is a 24-hour convenience store inside the hospital. Most customers are doctors, nurses, or hospitalized patients. A nurse buys ice cream as a treat for herself after surgery. A man who, while hospitalized, bought over ten books out of boredom. Even at midnight, on-call doctors visit the store night after night in search of energy drinks. The large hospital continues to operate even during the state of emergency. What kind of people come to the convenience store, and for what reasons? Over three days, we listen in.