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Japan Sinks: People of Hope

In 2023 in Tokyo, Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama (Toru Nakamura) pushes for COMS at the World Environment Conference. COMS is a method to liquify pollutants and store it in the crack of the sea floor. Prime Minister Eiichi Higashiyama gathers young and talented bureaucrats and launches Japan Future Promotion Conference, which is to benefit the future of Japan. Keishi Amami (Shun Oguri) of the Ministry of the Environment and Koichi Tokiwa (Kenichi Matsuyama) of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry are members of that conference.

One day, Yusuke Tadokoro's (Teruyuki Kagawa) article is published in a weekly magazine. His articles warns that Kanto region will sink into the sea. Due to his article, groups begin to hold protests. To ease the situation, Keishi Amami meets with Yusuke Tadokoro, but Yusuke Tadokoro insists that in the near future, Izu Peninsula will sink and that will portend the Kanto region sinking. Around this time, Minori Shiina (Anne Watanabe), who is a weekly magazine reporter, talks to Keishi Amami about possible corruption between a company and the Ministry of Environment. Keishi Amami is uncomfortable dealing with everything, but he takes part in his hobby and goes scuba diving with Koichi Tokiwa. There he faces a shocking event.


On Netflix, a substantial director's cut version, which is edited differently from the broadcast version, is distributed worldwide by subtitle translation

Show Info

Network: Japan TBS (2021 - 2021)
Schedule: Sundays at 21:00 (54 min)
Status: Ended
Language: Japanese
Show Type: Scripted
Genres: DramaScience-Fiction
Episodes ordered: 10 episodes

Official site: www.tbs.co.jp

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Previous Episodes

Episode NameAirdateTrailer
1x10: Ep. 9 Part 2 "Goodbye Japan"Dec 12, 2021
1x09: Ep. 9 Part 1 "Door to the closed world"Dec 12, 2021
1x08: Episode 8Dec 5, 2021
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BookerMuzuker posted a year ago

On terrestrial broadcasting, the contents of all 9 episodes will be broadcast in 9 weeks. Netflix divides the 9th episode of terrestrial broadcasting into two and distributes it. (Episode 9 'Door to the Closed World', Episode 10 'Goodbye Japan')

Extra Details

Also known as:
  • Japán vége - A remény emberei (Hungary Hungary)
  • 日本沈没ー希望のひとー (Japan Japan)
  • Nihon Chinbotsu: Kibo no Hito (Japan Japan)
  • 日本沈没 (Japan Japan)
  • Гибель Японии: Люди надежды (Russian Federation Russian Federation)
  • The Sinking of Japan: People of Hope
  • Nihon Chinbotsu
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