Vice Season 5 Episode 16 Synopsis

"Cyber Supremacy" - US intelligence agencies accuse Russia of hacking the 2016 presidential election, a trove of NSA documents posted to Wikileaks result in a global cyber attack, the confidential personal information of millions of private citizens circulate on the Dark Web. As independent and state-sponsored hackers wreak havoc, one nation - Israel - is revolutionizing its military and leading the way in cyber security. Ben Ferguson travels to Tel Aviv to find out how Israel is on its way to becoming the world's top cyber superpower.

"Japan Rising" - After World War II, Japan disbanded its military and adopted a policy of pacifism across its society, culture and constitution. But with China's increasing expansionism, North Korea's continued belligerence and a tide of nationalist sentiment sweeping the globe, a right-wing movement in Japan aims to revive and strengthen the country's military might for the first time in 70 years. VICE sends Gianna Toboni to Tokyo to see the consequences of Japan's rising nationalism.

Vice Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Assad's Syria & Cost of Climate Change
• s05e02 - Trans Youth
• s05e03 - When the Earth Melts & The Displaced
• s05e04 - Kings of Cannabis & Into the Darkness
• s05e05 - Black and Blue & Our Bionic Future
• s05e06 - End of Amateurism
• s05e07 - Life Under Sharia & Plastic Oceans
• s05e08 - Fast Food of Arabia & Nollywood
• s05e09 - Medical Détente & Bananas
• s05e10 - Taliban Resurgence
• s05e11 - Engineering Immortality & Robot Revolution
• s05e12 - Women Behind Bars & The Business of Making Art
• s05e13 - Taking Back Iraq & Lost Generation
• s05e14 - The Politics of Terror & End of the EU?
• s05e15 - Future of Firearms & Russia 'Wins' Climate Change
• s05e16 - Cyber Supremacy & Japan Rising
• s05e17 - Last Line of Defense & El Rostro
• s05e18 - Power to the President
• s05e19 - Crude Reality & Between Oil and Water
• s05e20 - Autism Under the Lens
• s05e21 - Show of Force & Return to Somalia
• s05e22 - Controlling the Narrative & Power to Congo
• s05e23 - Dawn of a Dictator
• s05e24 - Dirty Oil & Rebuilding Our Reefs
• s05e25 - Dark Web & Future of Appalachia
• s05e26 - Divide and Conquer & Crackdown in Honduras
• s05e27 - Russian Hacking & Contagion
• s05e28 - Post-Truth News & Microbiome
• s05e29 - After ISIS & Cubs of the Caliphate

Vice Show Summary

HBO is partnering with "VICE" on an innovative news magazine show to be hosted by "VICE" founder Shane Smith, it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming.

The HBO series will showcase a mix of stories from around the globe. Among the segments in production for possible inclusion in the show are: Taliban child sleeping bombers; North Korean slave labor camps; New York's underground voodoo heroin clinics; Somalian pirates; and Satanic dentists in the Pacific Northwest.