Ms.Kanetaka is a famous travel journalist in Japan. She visited almost all the countries of the world. Reported each country and produced a TV program. She was a narrator,director and producer of her program. It was first telecast in 1959, and had been featured every Sunday since then over the Tokyo Broadcasting System Network (TBS)for 40 years. Her program " Kaoru Kanetaka/The World Around Us" was a long-running program loved by many Japanese.