It's pretty fascinating watching SUNSHINE coverage by countries other than your own -- especially (in my opinion) Japanese TV. At the very least these four examples offer some insight into how Japanese television programming compares to that in our own countries (which -- it's always easy to assume -- is the definitive way).
To give you fair warning, these clips are in Japanese only -- no sub-titles (except for Japanese ones, which won't help you much if you don't speak it). But in my opinion not knowing what they're saying makes the experience of watching them all the more interesting.
Sayonara!
P.S. A very special thanks to Gia over at SUNSHINE DNA for posting these clips on her blog!

I have just finished reading the book. There are two images of the flight patches - Icarus I & II. Could you translate the Japanese writing on those patches? Thanks...