May 1, 2023
Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation

ABC TV’s Documentaries Awarded the Intermedia-Globe Silver Awardat the 2023 WorldMediaFestivals
ONE DAY, DAD BECAME A WOMAN in the Documentaries - Inclusion and Diversity
category

CHILDREN'S HOSPICES- A "HOME AWAY FROM HOME" PULSING WITH LIFE in theDocumentaries - Human Relations and Values category

Asahi Television Broadcasting Corporation (ABC TV) proudly announces that our two documentary
programs, ONE DAY, DAD BECAME A WOMAN and CHILDREN'S HOSPICES- A "HOME AWAY

FROM HOME" PULSING WITH LIFE, won the intermedia-globe Silver award in theDocumentaries category at the 2023 WorldMediaFestivals - Television & Corporate Media Awards inGermany.

 ONE DAY, DAD BECAME A WOMAN
Category: Documentaries Inclusion and Diversity
TV Broadcast Date: 15 May 2022
Producer: Kazuki Nishi (ABC TV,
News & Information Center, News Division)
Director: Chie Kunitomo (ABC TV,
News & Information Center, News Division)
Cameraman: Nobuaki Kitajima (Express)
Editor: Hiroaki Odera (FLEX)Sound Engineer: Yoichi Maeda (BRIO)

Outline:
Chihiro Imanishi of Kyoto is a 56-year-old transgender person. She was born a male andtransitioned later in life to become female. Chihiro spent her school days feeling uncomfortable withher male identity but was unable to talk to anyone about it. It was not until she was married andthe father of two children that she came out to her wife and revealed that she wanted to live as awoman. Chihiro had always seemed the manly, dependable husband and cool dad who was good atplaying catch, but when she began appearing more and more feminine, her family became confused.
Her pursuit of whom she felt she really was inside brought hurt to her family and exposed her todiscrimination and prejudice. Having reached the breaking point, the family broke up. Even after
the divorce, however, the family learned to understand and support one another after many years.
Seven years after their divorce, Chihiro legally adopted his ex-wife Hiroko as his daughter to restore
their family ties. Although they still live apart, their family of four always gets together for dinner
once a month. Despite forming a new type of family, there were lingering resentments. Hiroko still
carried unhealed wounds in her heart because her beloved husband became a woman and son,Ryuta, felt unable to open up to his father who did not spend time with him during his troubled
adolescence. Last year, daughter Kanae celebrated adulthood, and this year, son Ryuta will begetting married as parents Chihiro and Hiroko look on. We follow this family that sometimes
clashes but always supports one another.

 CHILDREN'S HOSPICES- A "HOME AWAY FROM HOME" PULSING
WITH LIFE
Category: Documentaries Human Relations and Values
TV Broadcast Date: 30 April 2022Producer: Kazuki Nishi (ABC TV,News & Information Center, News Division)
Director: Ken Hasegawa (ABC TV,
News & Information Center, News Division)
Cameraman: Nobuaki Kamichika (Express)
Editor: Osamu Tsurui (i-NEX)
Sound Engineer: Yoichi Maeda (BRIO)

Outline:Pediatric cancer, heart disease, immunodeficiency… Statistics show there are over 20,000 children
in Japan who are battling severe illnesses. Children’s hospices are facilities where children withlengthy hospitalizations can get together with their siblings and parents. How do the children spend
their time there and take back their natural childlike qualities? Japan’s first private children’s
hospice, established in Osaka in spring 2016, has sown seeds that show promise of flowers bloomingin places around the nation.