S5·E17 – Tropical Nightless City, 24-Hour Supermarket

2014-07-04 • 30 min

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The western edge of Kagoshima. In Akune City, a city with vast forests and fields and an elderly population of over 40%, there is a huge supermarket that is famous throughout Japan for its wide selection of goods. The store, which is open 24 hours a day, is visited by 80% of the city's population every day. Elderly people standing around in depopulated towns looking for someone to talk to, young people gathering late at night to ask if they can find a good job.... Behind the city's booming economy, the daily lives of people in the countryside who gather for a little entertainment.