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We visit Japan to meet Dr Nakamatsu and some of his inventions, a chair that doubles your brain size and knocks ten years off your life being one of them.
Osaka is Japan's second biggest city, and Japan is the world’s second biggest economy. Yet runaway construction and mismanagement has plunged thousands into poverty.
Japanese people are living longer and having fewer children - and soon that will mean there will be more people retired than working, and that has profound economic consequences.
Japan has long prided itself on keeping jobless numbers far below the West, but now unemployment is rising and hitting men over 50 the hardest. Not entitled to a pension before the age of 65, many are left to their own devices.
Internet phones took off early in Japan, although it wasn't without its critics. An exploration of the hopes and fears of the exponentially developing age of technology.
The majority of tuna is destined for the multi-million dollar Japanese market. Tuna is so overfished that some species are becoming endangered.
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