天地人（ten chi jin)

Today is the first Sunday this year. NHK(Nippon Hoso Kyokai: Japan Broadcasting Corporation) started broadcasting the new 大河ドラマ（taiga drama: literally Big River Drama)titled 天地人（ten chi jin: Heaven Earth People)at 8 PM. Taiga drama is annual year-long historical drama series, first started in 1963 and this is the 48th series. It is usually 45 minutes long program from 8:00PM to 8:45PM at Sunday night (rebroadcast next Saturday), but today it was 75 minutes long. It is composed of 50 stories until Dec. 13, 2009. This year's story focuses on the life of 16th century samurai Naoe Kanetsugu, and depicts 愛（ai: Love) and 義(gi: Righteousness) of Japanese people which seem to have been disappearing these days.