Japan Sinks: People of Hope: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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

Series details

• Title: Japan Sinks: People of Hope
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 2021-10-10
• Final broadcast date listed: 2021-12-12
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TBS
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Paravi
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 58181
• TVDB ID: 410548

Cast and credited roles

• Shun Oguri — Amami Keishi
• Kenichi Matsuyama — Tokiwa Koichi
• Anne Watanabe — Shiina Minori
• Toru Nakamura — Higashiyama Eiichi
• Teruyuki Kagawa — Tadokoro Yusuke

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2021-10-10; final listed air date 2021-12-12; episode order: 10.

Source and licence

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