NHK General’s weekly Friday program Document 72 Hours will feature Amakusa Airlines’ “Mizoka” aircraft. The program staff will keep riding the Mizoka, which operates 10 flights a day, and listen to the travel stories of the passengers seated beside them. In spring, the aircraft carries young people leaving Amakusa for university, families flying for hospital visits, encounters between travelers and local residents, and unexpected incidents that bring a sense of suspense. Document 72 Hours is a documentary program that places cameras at a single location, such as a family restaurant, airport, or izakaya, and observes the human stories that unfold there over 72 hours. By listening to people met by chance, the program captures a slice of the present moment. Program information: Document 72 Hours will air on NHK General from 10:00 p.m. on Friday, May 15. A rebroadcast is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 23. Further details are available on the program’s official website. Amakusa Airlines, or AMX, is known as “Japan’s smallest airline.” Based at Amakusa Airport in Kumamoto Prefecture, it operates three routes serving Fukuoka, Kumamoto, and Osaka Itami. With only one dolphin-themed ATR42-600 aircraft, nicknamed Mizoka and seating 48 passengers, the airline operates 10 flights a day as an essential means of transport for local residents and a key part of the region’s tourism infrastructure. Amakusa Airlines will also cooperate in advancing two recently selected projects: the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications’ “Hometown Resident Registration System Model Project” and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s “Leading Project Implementation Program for Dual-Region Living.” The Hometown Resident Registration System Model Project aims to create a platform that allows anyone to easily register municipalities they are interested in through an app, receive attractive information from those municipalities, and deepen their ties with local