Japan: Earth's Enchanted Islands

Japan's largest island, Honshu, is home to over 100 million people. But there is also an astonishing variety of wildlife, and vast areas of wild landscape. On this island, from the mountains all the way to the coast, people and nature are drawn together, and live alongside each other in the most unexpected ways.

In the far south of Japan, there is a chain of islands stretching towards the tropics - a place where all life is influenced by the power of the sea, and where volcanoes and typhoons are forces to be reckoned with. The journey begins at an island at the top of the chain and travels south, revealing unexpected stories of isolation, unique wildlife and unsolved mysteries.

The northern island of Hokkaido swings from Siberia-like winters to Mediterranean-like summers. Everything living on Japan's wildest island needs to be extra resilient to survive.