This following text has been included in the UCB Media Resources Center Web site with the kind permission of the publishers. Produced by Sue Clayton. Directed by Sue Clayton. Narrated by Lindsay Duncan. This is a universally appealing look at Japan's interpretation of the future, both for itself and for the world.
Japan views the future as a logical extension of today's technology and social structure.
This video explores this attitude and shows how, in many respects, the infrastructure for the country's future society is being conscientiously put into place. The video would be of interest to students of Japan, technology, and the future. Trends in transportation, communications, space settlement, city planning for submarine and underground environments, agriculture, and entertainment are explored. To paraphrase one analyst interviewed, all of this activity takes place in an atmosphere in which the Japanese don't realize that it can't be done. Japan's dreaming is of a very practical nature.