Haiku Talk: The Power of Silence

NHK official website link: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2084025/

The TV program “Culture Crossroads” is now online. The program features a haiku talk between Madoka Mayuzumi and Maria, a Russian student studying in Japan. The episode was aired on NHK World Channel on 18 Feb. Please have a look!

The power of the tiny 17-syllable poems called haiku resonates worldwide. In 2021, an effort was made to share thoughts via haiku in many languages, with the theme of "Life." What kind of thoughts do people express in the midst of conflicts, disasters and the COVID-19 epidemic? The organizer, poet Mayuzumi Madoka, presents a selection of the more than 1,000 haiku submitted from 36 countries.