Lunch on the Job (Season 2)

Everybody needs lunch. It is a time of refreshment and a chance to get motivated for the afternoon. By looking at working people’s lunches, you can tell a lot about their lives and get a sense of how they view their professions. This series focuses on the lunch breaks of working people in diverse fields. Every lunch reveals a unique story. We visit workplaces to find the stories behind the lunches there. In this episode, we tag along with a cleaning team on Shinkansen bullet trains. For a train to depart on time, the team must clean it from end to end in just seven minutes. This feat is possible thanks to incredible teamwork. We learn how that teamwork is nurtured at lunchtime. Three other segments feature photographer Satoru Abe, who travels across Japan in search of boxed lunches called bento, someone picked off the street at random and joined for lunch by the crew and the lunchtime habits of a late famous figure.