Reporter Mina Mitsui-Ikuma from the Japanese newspaper Shankei Shimbun visits the Netherlands for an article about euthanasia and dementia. She visits a Dutch couple for an interview about a family member that got euthanasia because he did not want to go through the dementia decaying… Read More

The craft of being a Dutch miller has been added to a Unesco cultural heritage list because of the skills involved and the key role millers have in transmitting cultural history. Unesco also points out that the Netherlands has implemented various measures to safeguard the… Read More

Nowhere the Dutch local elections are as exciting as in Rotterdam. The late Pim fortuyn party Leefbaar Rotterdam (Livable Rotterdam) is fighting for the vote on the right side with both the PVV from Geert Wilders as the Forum for Democracy from the new populist… Read More

A bill to combat sexist and sexual violence will be presented to the French Council of Ministers on Wednesday 21 March 2018. The new text provides for a fine of ninety euros for ‘sexist contempt’, or street harassment. But what are our European neighbours doing… Read More

During the winter Olympics the Dutch female skaters missed out on victory in the team pursuit and had to acknowledge their superiority to the Japanese women’s team. The final was unusually exciting. After the first two laps, the Orange trio was about two tenths behind,… Read More

The city of Amsterdam is leading the world in ending the obesity epidemic, thanks to a radical and wide-reaching program which is getting results even among the poorest communities that are hardest to reach. The program appears to be succeeding by hitting multiple targets at… Read More

In 2000 the Dutch prostitution branch became fully legal after the brothel ban was lifted. What is the status of the Dutch sex branch that has been fully legalized for almost 20 years and more importantly how is it for a sex worker to run… Read More

The Swiss parliament will discuss new legislation to make more use of DNA traces in criminal cases. The Netherlands already has less strict rules for the use of DNA material and for DNA research amongst the population. The rape and murder of the Dutch girl… Read More

Over the last years the Dutch partly managed to process the large influx by using former jails to house refugees and immigrants. France3 visits an asylum seekers centre in the former jail the Grittenborgh in the eastern town Hoogeveen. The location manager of the centre,… Read More

After years of negotiations, Japan and Europe will finally sign a Free Trade Agreement. NHK correspondent Yasushi Kudo visits the Netherlands to see how the Dutch dairy branch is preparing for new trade opportunities with Japan. The sales manager of the Dutch cheese producer Unie… Read More

The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is covering the Dutch national elections profoundly. In a so-called 100 minute program Dutch society and culture is investigated intensively. Besides filming for this program extra reportages are produced about the rise extreme right in the Netherlands, about Wilders voters,… Read More

After the recent escalation with Turkey, the tension before the Dutch general elections is particularly large: the extreme right populist Geert Wilders delivers a head-to-head race with the right-wing government division of Premier Marc Rutte. With his anti-Islamic and anti-EU course Wilders has led to… Read More