■NHK Special 〜 Saving a Fishing Town 200 Days at a Community Bank 〜 Many smaller businesses were damaged on March 11th. For two hundred days, we followed a credit union. It continued to lend money to support the recovery of a local fishing village, despite its bad debts. ■Asia in View 〜 Cambodia's Rice Pride 〜 Under the 'Rice Policy' campaign, Cambodia is boosting rice exports and turning agriculture into a key industry. We focus on the rice farmers and companies expanding international trade. ■Science View 〜 Hydrothermal Vents: Searching for Life at the Bottom of the Sea 〜 In 2010, the Japanese deep sea drilling vessel 'Chikyu' became the first in the world to examine a hydrothermal vent at its source. We look at the results of this latest seafloor investigation.
