The eight-part NHK suspense drama "Gekiryu: Watashi Oboete Imasu ka?" ("Wild Current: Do You Remember Me?"; NHK-G, Tues., 10 p.m.) is about five former classmates struggling with personal and professional problems 20 years after a friend of theirs disappeared during a junior high school field trip.

Keiko (Reina Tanaka), an editor at a prominent publishing house, runs into her old friend, Sabajima (Koji Yamamoto), who is now a banker, on the shinkansen. Another classmate, Mia (Rie Tomosaka), an unmarried singer-songwriter, also runs into a member of the old gang, Higashihagi (Kenta Kiritani), but under inauspicious circumstances, since he is a police detective investigating a crime. Then Mia receives a mysterious email from the missing girl.

Before you know it, the Upper House elections will be here. Are you prepared? Do you know what's at stake? If not, tune in to "Hodo Tokuban: Ikegami Akira no Nihon no Daigimon" ("Special News Show: Akira Ikegami's Big Questions About Japan"; TV Tokyo, Wed., 8 p.m.), where master explainer Akira Ikegami answers queries from viewers about the upcoming poll. How will Abenomics affect their lives? Who benefits from TPP? What will the proposed revision of the Constitution entail?