Reach Beyond the Blue Sky

The eldest son of a wealthy farming family, Eiichi Shibusawa, develops a passion for business from watching his father. This leads to him meeting the last shogun of Japan, Yoshinobu Tokugawa—an encounter that changes the trajectory of his entire life.

This is the remarkable journey of the man who becomes the father of modern Japanese economics in the post-shogunate era of Japan. © NHK