A lizard book?

Oh my goodness!

It's a reptile book.

A reptile book, all in Japanese! You got this, Sarah!

[Life in Japan Theme Song]

Sarah, what did you just get?

It's a big bug box!

It's a big bug box?!

Are we going to go out and look for bugs and different things to capture?

Yes!

Oh my goodness, OK!

Sarah has been super interested in reptiles and bugs recently,

so we're on a hunt to see what we can find.

Alright guys, are we ready?

To find some bugs?!

We're going to find some bugs, maybe some frogs.

See what we can find.

Oh that's a long ways down! Whoa, look at that, guys.

Our explorations start at a nearby stream that could possibly be good for finding bugs and such.

Oo la la.

This is pretty in here, isn't it?

Look at that, wow!

Look at over here too.

That's pretty incredible.

We've come to Todoroki Valley, I've been here before, but the family's never been here.

But we're keeping an eye open just for little bugs,

Or frogs or anything we might come across while we're down here.

Oh wow, look at that bridge.

Whoa, look at this! There's a big road up there, isn't there?

Oh yea, a pizza and pasta place up there somewhere

Wow, this is wild.

Oh Sarah, that does look awful like wild area, huh?

Frogs and things and stuff there maybe?

Maybe some

Some bamboo

It's pretty down here, but no bugs or frogs or anything like that to find so far.

And tons of spiders! Oh my goodness, if only you wanted to catch spiders.

The valley was certainly not the right place for the hunt, so we needed to expand our options.

OK, let's see if we can find something, Sarah.

We're going to go this way. See if we can find something this way, OK?

I think there might be something.

Do we see anything here? Any butterflies or anything at all?

Any moths? Anything flying around?

We're going to have to go somewhere else to look, huh?

The search will continue.

Oh oh! There's something!

What do you have to say, Sarah, if you want the butterfly to stop for a moment?

Butterfly, wait please!

Oh, yea, now there's some more bugs and stuff here, aren't there?

There's a butterfly over there.

Oh, there sure are! Look, this is where they like it.

OK, now we found some stuff.

Because there's flowers.

Yea, 'cause there's flowers here.

That's right, they like all these flowers.

Is it a bee? Did I just make it mad?

Momma caught something! Is it a bee?!

I don't think it's a bee, is it?

The butt looked like a bee.

Momma chan wasn't sure. Maybe she got a bee.

Maybe.

As long as it doesn't "bee" mad at me.

Look, there might be water down here.

Sarah would love to find a frog.

There's water for sure, but you know what?

I don't even hear a frog.

And you wouldn't want to go in this water here.

There's bugs on the water, that's for sure, look at those guys.

They're good at walking on water.

Yea, the bugs can walk on the water, can't they?

That's a pretty cool trick.

We started to consider that perhaps our timing was not the best

not only did we have to find a better place to go hunting but also a better time.

What a cool view up here, huh Dude?

Come over here. Come over here? Yea, let's go!

Whoa, you can see a long ways.

The hunt would move on.

Finding frogs in a different place!

We came to a different place along the Tama River, I think we'll have a lot better luck here.

No running.

Oh yea, there's a little creek down there.

How about that water there? Ew!

All ready for whatever Sarah finds? I am.

Sarah, you are already to find something, huh honey?

I hope you find something.

OK, this is the area we have chosen to go explore, right Sarah?

It's nasty water.

So let's go explore and see what we can find.

Frogs.

I'm going to go collect flowers.

The things we don't do for our kids!

Right here, come right here and then step right there, big step.

Now Sarah, let's listen. Do we hear anything other than that noisy bird up there?

Bird, wherever you are, go away and tweet.

I'm trying to find a frog and you're scaring it away

I made it!

Joshua found some solid land!

Careful Dude!

Don't fall in there!

Why? Because I'm not close enough to save you.

Once again, our big expectations were met with a harsh dose of reality.

The only wildlife we could find were some colorful wildflowers and noisy birds alerting everyone of our presence.

Look, I found a little place where we can cross the swamp.

And then we can go over and maybe see [something] in that island over there, ok?

Let's go see.

I see a dragonfly! Do you want to try to get a dragonfly?

No thank you. No?!

Do you see him? Yea, I do.

You don't want to try to get him?

It's good practice. Get close enough to get him, ok?

Wha! Oh, he jumped!

Where'd he go?

He went over there. He went over there?

Jump across to the other side.

Good job! OK, now you Big J.

Now you got to keep your eyes open for stuff.

And get ready to grab something in the air if it goes.

Well, all we found was a dragonfly

So we're going to go down much closer to our house

And go to a place under the bridge where we hope maybe is a great place to find some frogs

Or something, a lizard or something that Sarah will be happy to find.

Well, here goes attempt number three.

Sarah, I think everyone is rooting for you to find something.

What would you most like to find? A frog.

Second best would be? A lizard.

We saw a butterfly, there it is! Oh! Did you get it?

Almost. That was close, Dude.

OK! There's a bug right there in front.

Oh, there goes the romance car.

Do you remember when we went to Hakone on it?

I think people might have to wait for the next episode to see you catch something.

Well, we are going to have to do some more research to see where to catch frogs.

Is this where we go through?

I think we can go up right through here.

Let Daddy go first! Yea, that's right.

Scary!

Wait for me, Daddy! Go go go!

Oh look!

Daddy brought us out — perfect!

If anyone knows the best place to find frogs in Japan, tell us!

There's one more place I think we should check where I've heard tons of frogs before

And that was at a local park

Ne Sarah? I think that's where we need to go to find them.

In the morning, early, when they're all croaking!

I think the real winner today was Momma chan with her wildflowers!

Yes, I did get it.

A few days later...

Alright, we just heard that Uncle Ben and Izzy are catching crawfish

So we can go and hopefully catch some!

Yes!

Yeah, we'll cut the string, I'll tie it on here

And then we'll tie a piece of squid onto the other end of this rope

Did you catch a baby? Yeah.

And then you put it in the water and you try to catch zarigani.

Japanese for "crawfish."

So Sarah can you take that scissors and cut right here

[Yelling]

There's a zarigani over there?!

Did you get one on the line?

There's one on the line. Can you see it? Oh my goodness!

Izzy's going to pull the squid back out and I'm going to try to get it with a net.

The small ones are fast though.

Man, I'm going to go right here.

I'm going to come up from behind it.

Oh, it sees my net. Oh! It's back away!

They don't go in the net all by themselves.

OK, it went back in the hole. Oh!

So what's the process here? What do you do?

These are just chopsticks

We tie the string onto it

And then we'll tie, on the other end, a piece of squid

Oh!

The zarigani love the squid.

There you go Sarah!

That's it. You just needed a professional to help out.

I hope and pray we get one.

You already got one.

Yeah, but... Yeah, you've had some success already, huh?

I want you to get one.

It actually smells pretty good.

Have you had some as a snack? I have not had any

But it smells good.

You want to smell it?

Mmmmm.

It smells like beef jerky! Ha ha! Squid jerky.

Sarah, what did you catch?

I caught Ebi (shrimp).

Ebi! You got some ebi!

Awesome! OK, well that's a good start.

We got a fishing pole — a handmade fishing pole

OK I'm just gonna put it over here... And some nets...

Dude, this is just a whole hunting party here.

Izzy, how many have you got here so far?

Two. Have you got a bunch? Two?!

I got two too.

Whoa, the train goes right by, look at that!

Whoa!

Whoa, careful Joshua, don't fall in!

He's already having so much fun!

Look it! Look at that big guy right down in there.

Look at that big one!

Izzy, where's are net?

There's a big guy right down there.

Oh! Almost got him! Oh, that was so close!

Almost got him!

You got the squid!

You go the squid! You got the bait!

Look at the size of the one they caught right before we got here, my goodness!

That dude is like the dude right there.

Eventually, all of our patience and perseverance would pay off.

There would be a happy ending to the episode after all.

[Cheering] We got it!!

We got it! Let's see!

We finally got one! We got one!

Wow! Holy cow!

Alright! That's a decent sized dude.

Wow! Oh Dude, that was awesome!

Now he's digging in!

Finally caught on film!

Way to go Uncle Ben! Save the day!

crawfish friends?

Not friends Look — baby, kid, mommy and daddy fighting.

Good job Izzy!

Good job Izzy, way to go!

High five!

Getting some water. We got to hydrate after that one, huh?

It wasn't a frog or a lizard, but catching a zarigani sure felt good!

Well and they think we got another one. A smaller one?

A big one?

Is it there still Izzy? We don't know.

We don't know yet?

Right now I'm eating squid though.

Now you're eating the squid? You're eating the bait?!

Ane me. And you?!

Good job, thank you Uncle Ben.

Oh my goodness! What a cutie-pie.

Are you going to let him go back? Is that what you're going to do?

OK, let's see.

You're letting him go.

Go!

Born Free...

OK, I want to try to catch it.