A young man from Fukushima Prefecture took his love of baseball to Nicaragua, where he helped create the country's first female baseball team. An 81-year-old who lives in Fukushima works every day growing vegetables, and helping neighbors with everything from carpentry to plumbing. After the March 2011 nuclear disaster, another man opened a Tokyo restaurant specializing in Fukushima's seafood and other delicacies, to support the prefecture. These are the stories of 3 unsung heroes with ties to Fukushima who have touched many people's lives.

Kikuno has devoted herself to the life of a geisha since the age of 15. She lives in Nara Prefecture's entertainment district, once home to more than 200 geisha performers. The district has steadily declined, and a decade ago Kikuno became Nara's last remaining geisha. Now 45, she is working to keep 150 years of tradition alive by adapting to the times. She has turned her geisha house into a company and began paying the entertainers a salary. In the summer of 2018, she faced her next challenge: preparing a young geisha and an apprentice for a major performance.