Jonathan Ross made a great TV Series a few years back called Japanorama. Its a classic BBC Documentary well paced, enjoyable and informative – one of my favourite subjects too. The series highlights a few popular Japanese exports and customs and offers nothing more than Ross’ irreverent commentary and a brief introduction- no silly camera work, no ground breaking mysteries for a team to tantalisingly uncover within a loud introduction (then dragged out for 25mins, talking to you Horizon!) just fine TV. Hope the BBC come out with a box-set someday, I’ll buy it.

Meanwhile, Japanorama is available on YouTube and on Guba.com where you can watch all of series two.