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Season 2, Episode 21: Self Storage: Secrets and Memories
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Recently, all across Japan, there has been a sharp rise in the number of people turning to self-service storage to keep things they have no room for at home, or to keep "treasures" away from other family members. This episode interviews clients of a huge self-storage facility in Osaka, over the course of 3 days. The facility contains over a thousand units, large and small. In these rentable units, accessible 24/7, clients keep everything from treasured family mementos to secret collections. Getting people to display such private possessions on camera was far from easy, but what they showed us was...
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
Night Clinic: An ER of Last Resort
Episode 2
The Live-streamers: Interactive Webcasting
Episode 3
The "Rain, then Fine" Coin Laundry
Episode 4
Climbing Mt. Fuji
Episode 5
Home is Where the Locker Is; The Day Laborers of Osaka
Episode 6
Yanaka Cemetery: Dialogs between Death and Life
Episode 7
Personal Glimpses at a 24-Hour Gym
Episode 8
Printing Handheld Memories
Episode 9
The Game Center, and the Prize beyond the Prize
Episode 10
The Makeup Room
Episode 11
The Voyage of Life on a Giant Ferry
Episode 12
One Tower, Many Lives
Episode 13
The Call of the Dunes
Episode 14
A 24/7 Discount Store
Episode 15
A Giant Travel Agency: Destinations and Detours
Episode 16
Night Train to Izumo: Destination - Destiny
Episode 17
The Post Office that Never Sleeps
Episode 18
Youth "HelloWork" - A Job Agency
Episode 19
An All-night Eatery
Episode 20
A Giant Bookstore: Wandering in a World of Words
Episode 21
Self Storage: Secrets and Memories
Episode 22
Mt. Osore: Between Life and Death
Episode 23
Wrestlers on the Road
Episode 24
The 24-Hour Supermarket: Just Another Day
Episode 25
At a Gas Station in a Downpour
Episode 26
A 260-person "Sharehouse"
Episode 27
A 24/7 Animal Hospital: When a Pet Needs a Vet
Episode 28
At a Train Station in Fukushima