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International service of NHK

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Television channel NHK World-Japan

Type	Broadcasting news, discussions, state media
Country	Japan
Broadcast area	Worldwide (International)
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Programming
Languages	Japanese, English
Picture format	1080i 16:9 (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	Government of Japan
Parent	NHK
Sister channels	NHK General TVNHK Educational TVNHK BSNHK BS Premium 4KNHK BS8K
History
Launched	April 1, 1998; 27 years ago (1998-04-01)
Former names	NHK World
Links
Website	www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television(United States)	List Channel 9.4 Utah (KUEN) Channel 11.2 Honolulu (KHET) Channel 12.4 Denver (KBDI) Channel 22.3 San Francisco (KRCB) Channel 60.3 San Francisco (KPJK) Channel 24.4 Orlando (WUCF) Channel 28.2 Tacoma-Seattle (KBTC) Channel 28.3 Los Angeles (KCET) Channel 30.2 Atlanta (WABE-TV) Channel 56.2 Chicago (WYIN) Channel 57.2 Plattsburgh (WCFE) Channels x.2 New Jersey (NJ PBS) Channels x.4 Maryland (Maryland) Channel 8.4 Houston (Houston)
Zuku TV (Kenya)	Channel 570
Streaming media
NHK World-Japan	Watch live (available worldwide)
NHK World Radio Japan	Listen live (available worldwide)

NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other national public-service broadcasters, such as the British BBC (BBC World Service, the international feed of the BBC News channel, etc.), France 24, or the German DW. Contents are broadcast through shortwave radio, satellite, and cable operators throughout the world, as well as online and through its mobile apps. It is headquartered in Tokyo.

NHK World-Japan currently provides three main broadcast services: an English-language current affairs TV channel (NHK World TV), a multilingual radio service (NHK World Radio Japan), and a Japanese-language general/entertainment TV service (NHK World Premium). NHK World-Japan also makes most of its programming available through its website (either live or on demand).[1] A Chinese version of the channel, NHK Huayu Shijie (NHK华语视界), which essentially provides news and select programs from NHK World-Japan with Mandarin dubbing and/or subtitles, was launched on January 15, 2019,[2] and is only distributed online.

History

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NHK World changed to its current name in April 2018, as an effort to "establish wider global recognition" as a service with "Japanese roots".[3]

On March 30, 2020, NHK World-Japan implemented a new policy for referring to Japanese names, following the common practice in the Japanese language of listing the surname first followed by the given name, in line with "moves in Japan in general".[4]

Television

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NHK World TV (rolling news channel)

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NHK World TV started broadcasting services for North America and Europe in 1995. On April 1, 1998, then-called NHK World Television started broadcasting. Today's NHK World-Japan is a current affairs and cultural channel that broadcasts internationally via satellite and cable TV. Programming is produced in English only. It began as a news channel in February 2009. NHK World-Japan's free-to-air broadcasts have been available in HD by satellite since then.

NHK World-Japan HD currently broadcasts from Intelsat 19 166°E, 68.5°E, Astra 19.2°E, Hot Bird 13°E, 58°W, to SES-3 103°W.[5] In the United States, NHK World-Japan is available on DirecTV channels 322 and 2049.[6]

Some of the shows are produced by production studio JIB TV, which is 60% owned by NHK with the remaining 40% owned by private investors like Microsoft and Japanese bank Mizuho. The NHK World-Japan digital on-screen graphic is not used at all when shows produced by JIB TV air as paid programming.

NHK World TV in HD Version is also currently available on Rogers Cable channel 122 in Western Canada including Rogers Ignite TV.

Programs

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TV programs by NHK World-Japan include:[7]

• Begin Japanology and Japanology Plus: A Japanese culture and lifestyle television show with Peter Barakan.
• Biz Stream: A weekly business news program featuring the main stories of the week with guest expert analysis.
• Cool Japan: Hosted by Shoji Kokami and Risa Stegmayer; some aspects of Japanese customs are considered "cool" by foreigners. Cool Japan is a television show that illustrates the quickly changing Japanese culture and how it is perceived by the international community that have recently made Japan their home.
• J-Melo: A music program hosted by May J., featuring the latest developments in Japanese music, selections of hit songs, and diverse material from a wide range of different music genres: pop, rock, jazz, and classical.
• NHK Newsline: A news program with updates every hour, covering world events and business-related news, as well as providing global weather forecasts.
• Somewhere Street: A travel program which explores a different city each episode, from a tourist's perspective walking through a city.
• Today's Close-up: A current affairs program from the NHK's domestic network

Most recently, NHK World-Japan has promoting selections of their J-drama lineups under NHK Drama Showcase.[8]

NHK World Premium (entertainment channel)

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Main article: NHK World Premium

NHK World Premium broadcasts a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in Japanese language worldwide, via satellite and cable providers, as a subscription service mostly targeted at Japanese expatriates.

It is marketed with that very name in several regions of the world, including Asia, Oceania, Latin America and Europe. NHK World Premium's contents in Europe were previously shown on JSTV-branded subscription channels that were run by NHK Cosmomedia Europe and headquartered in the UK. The service was known as テレビジャパン (TV Japan) in the US, which was run by NHK Cosmomedia America until it closed on March 31, 2024; its replacement streaming service, named Jme, carries an NHK World Premium stream.[9] Contents generally do not carry English subtitles.

Radio

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NHK World Radio Japan (RJ) is the international radio arm of NHK. It broadcasts a weekly lineup of news, current affairs, cultural, and educative radio program focusing on Japan and Asia, for a daily total of 65 hours of broadcasts.

Radio Japan provides two main feeds:

• The General Service broadcasts worldwide in Japanese and English.
• The Regional Service broadcasts to specific geographical zones in 17 languages: Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. Both services are available on shortwave (SW) as well as on the internet.[10]

Radio Japan's shortwave relay stations

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NHK World Radio Japan runs a domestic SW relay station on 9750 kHz from 8:00 to 16:00 UTC:[11]

• Yamata

It also leases some hours by several external relay stations for English service in:

• United Kingdom
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Myanmar
• Madagascar
• Vatican State - Vatican Radio
• France - Radio France Internationale

Satellite and internet service

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NHK World-Japan broadcasts via C-band and Ku-band satellites around the globe.

The programs and content are also available online.

• NHK World-Japan: online news (text) and live video stream of the rolling news channel
• NHK World Radio Japan: live radio streams, podcasts, and archive programming
• Learn Japanese: re-edited versions of series, such as Basic Japanese for You and Brush Up Your Japanese.

Only a limited number of programs are available online for free.[12]

• NHK is available on Apple TV, Fire TV, and Roku streaming media players.

See also

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• Television in Japan
• International broadcasting in Japan
• International news channels

References

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1. ^ "NHK WORLD - JAPAN Live and Programs". NHK World Japan. Archived from the original on March 3, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
2. ^ "New Chinese service 'NHK Huayu Shijie'" (PDF). www.nhk.or.jp. December 19, 2018. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 21, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
3. ^ "New Programs of NHK World-Japan for 2018" (PDF). Japan Broadcasting Corporation. February 22, 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2021.
4. ^ "Style for Japanese persons' names". NHK World-Japan. March 30, 2020.
5. ^ Lyngsat - NHK World Japan Archived July 8, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Accessed July 20, 2021
6. ^ "NHK World News Live Stream | Watch Shows Online". DIRECTV. Archived from the original on October 22, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
7. ^ "Programs". NHK WORLD-JAPAN. Archived from the original on July 21, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
8. ^ "NHK Drama Showcase". NHK WORLD-JAPAN. Archived from the original on March 14, 2023. Retrieved February 22, 2023.
9. ^ "Termination of TV JAPAN Service". NHK Cosmomedia America. February 2024. Archived from the original on February 21, 2024. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
10. ^ NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). "Shortwave, Medium Wave and FM Radio" (PDF). NHK WORLD. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 11, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
11. ^ "A21 Shortwave Frequency List". Nagoya DXers Circle. Archived from the original on July 23, 2021. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
12. ^ NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). "Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)". NHK WORLD. Archived from the original on July 21, 2021. Retrieved July 21, 2021.

External links

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• Official website
• NHK World Premium
• NHK World-Japan's channel on YouTube
• NHK World Radio Japan interval signal

v t e NHK
Organization	Managing Committee Nobuyuki Koga (president) Kazuo Sakakibara（interim president） Nobuko Akashi Seiji Isoyama Toru Okusa (fulltime) Yutaka Ozaki Yuyoshi Sakamoto Yoshihiro Iki Fuwa Yasu Kaori Maeda Eri Misuo Akitsugu Murata Former presidents Kenzo Iwahara Shichiro Komori Hiroshi Shimomura Hachiro Ohashi Iwasaburo Takano Tetsuo Furugaki Kiyoshi Nagata Hideo Nomura Shinosuke Abe Yoshinori Maeda Yoshiro Ono Choichi Sakamoto Masato Kawahara Yoshizo Ikeda Keiji Shima Mikio Kawaguchi Katsuji Ebisawa Genichi Hashimoto Shigeo Fukuchi Masayuki Matsumoto Katsuhito Momii Ryoichi Ueda Akinori Maeda Nobuo Inaba Former vice-presidents Taeko Nagai Yoshinori Imai Naomichi Ono Hikaru Domoto
Services	TV, radio & others Television NHK G NHK E NHK BS NHK BSP4K NHK BS8K NHK World TV NHK World Premium (partially unscrambled) Radio NHK R1 NHK R2 NHK FM NHK World-Japan Other services NHK+ NHK Net Radio Rajiru★Rajiru NHK Hybridcast Data Online Former NHK UHF TV Experimental Station Hi-Vision Test Service BS2 NHK BShi NHK Digital Radio NHK 8K Test Service NHK Oneseg 2 NHK BS1 NHK BS Premium NHK BS4K Palau Broadcasting Station Other services NHK broadcasting format NHK World-Japan NHK-BS NHK News NHK Online NHK On Demand NHK Netclub NHK Archives Portal NHK Huayu Shijie
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v t e World news channels
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Portuguese-language	BandNews TV (Brazil) CNN Brazil (Brazil) CNN Portugal (Portugal) Euronews (Europe) TV Jovem Pan News [pt] (Brazil) Record Internacional (Brazil) RTP3/RTP Internacional/RTP África (Portugal) SIC Internacional/SIC Notícias (Portugal) STV Notícias (Mozambique) TPA Notícias (Angola) TV Brasil Internacional (Brazil) TV Cultura (Brazil) TV Globo Internacional (Brazil)
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