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 has been featured every Sunday since then over the Tokyo Broadcasting System Network (TBS)for40years. Her program " Kaoru Kanetaka/The World Around Us" was a long-running program loved by many Japanese.