DAY 60 "HISTORY OF JAPAN" '80DAYS' Series with Paul G Roberts

It's DAY 60 and Roberts has made his way to Japan. A country he has visited 3 times before.
It's one of his favourite places to travel to, and its history and origin story is fascinating.

The culture of Ancient Japan was built on the ideals of order, harmony, and self-improvement.
While these core values guided the early history of Japan, they remain key factors
in the success of modern-day Japan. The Land of the Rising Sun is steeped in honor and tradition but has not been without its contradictions.

The Ancient Japanese sought order and decorum, but they believed the mythology that the land arose from chaos. Peace, harmony, and Zen are emphasized; however, Ancient Japan was defended by legendary Samurai and Shogun warriors.

Japan had a strict social hierarchy and unwritten social rules dictating interactions between people of different classes, yet rulers in ancient Japan were given autonomous control over their regions. These contrasts are the reason Japan remains one of the most complex societies in the world.

Out of chaos came order, according to the Ancient Japanese creation myths. When the
land separated from the ocean, seven pairs of deities – gods and goddesses – emerged
to create the seven thousand-plus islands of the Japanese archipelago. The seas kept the
islands somewhat isolated from mainland Asia, and the mountainous terrain made many areas
inaccessible.

The fertile volcanic soil, however, was perfect for farming. The first inhabitants of
the Japanese islands were hunter-gatherers who crossed land bridges from the mainland between 500,000 and 30,000 years ago.

After a time, they built permanent settlements, grew rice in paddies,
developed pottery making skills, established trade routes, and took major steps toward modernity.
The people of Ancient Japan were not entirely isolated. They interacted with outside cultures,
particularly the Chinese and Koreans, to observe how other people organized their
government and distributed power. Instead of each group appointing their own ruler or king,
as they once did, power became more centralized.

'80DAYS' Series
In ’80 DAYS’, starting from his home base of Sydney, adventurer and Award winning film maker Paul G Roberts, retraces the global footsteps of Phileas Fogg, hero of Jules Verne’s most famous work, “Around the World in 80 Days”, and this time around Roberts is not going to spend half his time out at sea on Steamers as Fogg did, instead he does a deep dive on history, art and culture of the cities he visits, and he captures and records his global adventures for a new 80 Episode TV series.
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Making an Award winning film is no small feat. Roberts has no less than 16 Best picture wins from major international Film festivals to his credit.

Usually it takes a great story, a team of highly skilled artisans. Writers, producers, a great director, editors, actors and usually a pile of money. And even then it takes a decent amount of luck and a lot of dedication for it to realise the promise it had on paper. There are a million things that can derail the project. The degree of difficulty is amplified many times over when it has ambitions to become a series.

But for one person to attempt to all of this solo, is for most experts just insanity.

In this new 80 episode solo 'Round the World' Series, Award winning filmmaker and travel lover Paul G Roberts attempts to do the impossible, in which he is the writer, director, producer, star, presenter, camera / sound / lighting / drone cam operator and financier. Everything but the editing.

EDITED BY KEVIN NGUYEN

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