Tonight at 11:30, TBS's documentary series, "World Heritage," will cover the Hiroshima Peace Dome, which has symbolized the atomic bombing since 1945, when it partially withstood the blast that flattened the entire city around it. The dome has been maintained in its damaged state for 56 years as a monument to the people who died in the attack, but while everyone in the world recognizes it on sight, most of us know nothing else about it.
Tonight's program will explain the history of the dome, which was built as an example of European design in the early part of the century, and how it survived the blast as it did. In addition, diary entries from a young victim of the bombing will be read as a means of explaining why the dome was preserved.
Tomorrow night and Tuesday night at 2:07 a.m., NHK-E will rebroadcast two documentaries that were made jointly by the BBC in England and the Learning Channel in the United States. The first documentary was originally broadcast on NHK in 1999. The program, "Why Do People Become Obese?", counters the widely held belief that people become profoundly overweight solely due to poor eating habits or loss of will. In fact, obesity in the West is synonymous in many people's minds with a lack of control over one's life; which is why obese people often have difficult finding employment.