New Frontier Category

01D11284
HOMESTAYING THE WORLD
Applicant: MAINICHI BROADCASTING SYSTEM INC. + TV MAN UNION, INC.
Designer: Hiroshi Shirai + Morifumi Kawamura

This is a television program in which Japanese reporters get involved in overseas homestays, actually experience the daily lives of people throughout the world, and report on their everyday lives in the host country. Since its first broadcast in 1995, the program has featured segments on over 90 countries, using the experiences of the Japanese reporters to convey the diversity of the world's peoples and cultures. We found the program to be an exemplary model of media design and gave it high marks for using the reporters' experiences to make the lives of the world's people more real to the audience and for motivating viewers to think about the current state of Japan by bringing them the experiences of a fellow Japanese who has participated in the life of another culture.