''Biz Stream'' is a weekly

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programme aired on

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service

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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

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, the programme entered a five-week

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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

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and

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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 The is the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Emeritus Akihito from 8 January 1989 until his abdication on 30 April 2019. The Heisei era started on 8 January 1989, the day after the death of the Emperor Hirohito, ...

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

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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 The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

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 The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; french: Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, ''OCDE'') is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate e ...

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

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Biz Stream (NHK) Japanese television news shows 2018 Japanese television series debuts NHK original programming