''Biz Stream'' is a weekly
business
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news
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programme aired on
NHK
, also known as NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. NHK, which has always been known by this romanized initialism in Japanese, is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
NHK operates two terrestr ...
's
international broadcasting
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service
NHK World-Japan
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, hosted by
Shaula Vogue
Shaula Vogue (born 28 August 1986) is an American radio and television presenter, DJ and former fashion model raised in Honolulu and, as of 2020, living in Japan. She hosts ''Power of Music'' on InterFM and cohosts ''Design Talks Plus'' (NHK Educa ...
and
Raja Pradhan. It premiered 7 April 2018;
it airs three times a month, on weekends, with an extra repeat on Wednesday early mornings (
JST).
The programme usually enters hiatus from late April to early May (
Golden Week), in late summer, and from mid-December to mid-January. Due to the
COVID-19 pandemic in Japan
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, the programme entered a five-week
hiatus
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*''Hiatus'', a genus of picture-winged flies with sole member species ''Hiatus fulvipes''
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, starting 18 April 2020 and ending 23 May 2020.
''Biz Stream'' aired its 100th episode on 15 May 2021.
Format
''Biz Stream'' is an "upbeat business programme" dealing with the top business stories and "the latest innovations" from Japan and elsewhere.
Every episode includes analysis by an expert guest and starts with a review of the main business headlines of the week.
The main segments are:
* ''In Depth'' deals with a business story out of the headlines reviewed at the start of the show.
* ''On-Site Report'' features a story of an issue affecting the Japanese or Asia-Pacific business community or their economy, and the way companies deal with it.
* ''World Perspective'' is a report from outside Japan, mostly from the
Asia Pacific
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and
Southeast Asia
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regions.
* ''Global Trends'' is a feature about sustainable, innovative products and entrepreneurship.
Occasionally, there are special episodes dealing only with one issue, such as a review of the
Heisei era
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from the business side
or an investigation on plastic waste exported to Southeast Asia.
The programme is also available on online service ''NHK Huayu Shijie'', broadcast as ''Shāngyè Xìnxī Liú BIZ STREAM'' () with
Simplified Chinese
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subtitles.
Personalities
Hosts
*Shaula Vogue
*Raja Pradhan
Former hosts
*Phoebe Amoroso (2018-2021)
Reporters
*
Marie Yanaka
is the 2011 winner of the Miss Nippon ("Miss Japan" in Japanese) beauty pageant. She graduated from the faculty of law at Keio University.
Yanaka spent much of her youth with her family posted in other countries. She spent four years in Singapo ...
*
John LaDue
Experts
*
Makiko Eda, chief representative office of the
World Economic Forum
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Japan
*
Akie Iriyama, professor at the
Waseda Business School
*
Joseph Kraft
Joseph Kraft (September 4, 1924 – January 10, 1986) was an American journalist.
Career
Kraft began his career in journalism at the age of 14 where he worked as a stringer covering high school sports for the New York World-Telegram. Kraft wo ...
, CEO of
Rorschach Advisory
*
Lee Chiwoong, chief economist at
Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities
The is a group of autonomous Japanese multinational companies in a variety of industries.
Founded by Yatarō Iwasaki in 1870, the Mitsubishi Group historically descended from the Mitsubishi zaibatsu, a unified company which existed from 1870 ...
*
Yumiko Murakami, head of the
OECD
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Tokyo Centre
*
Martin Schulz
Martin Schulz (born 20 December 1955) is a German politician who served as Leader of the Social Democratic Party from 2017 to 2018, and was a Member of the Bundestag (MdB) from 2017 to 2021. Previously he was President of the European Parliame ...
, chief policy economist at
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...
*
Ken Shibusawa, founder and chairman of
Commons Asset Management
*
Jonathan Soble, visiting fellow,
Asia Pacific Initiative
*
Rintaro Tamaki, president of the
Japan Center for International Finance (JCIF)
References
External links
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Japanese television news shows
2018 Japanese television series debuts
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