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NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese state-controlled
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. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other national public-service broadcasters, such as the
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operators throughout the world, as well as online and through its mobile apps. NHK World-Japan is also available on
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. NHK World-Japan currently provides three main broadcast services: an English-language current affairs TV channel of the same name, a multilingual radio service ( NHK World Radio Japan), and a Japanese-language general/entertainment TV service (
NHK World Premium NHK World Premium is a TV news and entertainment broadcasting service offered by NHK World-Japan, the international arm of Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The service is aimed towards overseas Japanese and the overseas market, similar to worldwi ...
). NHK World-Japan also makes most of its programming available through its website (either live or on demand). A Chinese version of the news TV channel, NHK华语视界 (''NHK Huayu Shijie''), which essentially provides news and select programs from NHK World-Japan in Mandarin dubbing and/or subtitles, was launched on January 15, 2019, and is only distributed online. The branch was rebranded from its former name of ''NHK World'' in April 2018.


Television


NHK World TV (rolling news channel)

NHK World TV 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
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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
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3 103°W. 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
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and Japanese bank Mizuho. The NHK World-Japan
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logo is not used at all when shows produced by JIB TV are aired as a paid programming.


Programs

TV programs by NHK World-Japan include: * '' Begin Japanology'' and ''Japanology Plus'': A Japanese culture and lifestyle television show with Peter Barakan. *''
Biz Stream ''Biz Stream'' is a weekly business news, business news programme aired on NHK's international broadcasting service NHK World-Japan, hosted by Shaula Vogue and Raja Pradhan. It premiered 7 April 2018; it airs three times a month, on weekends, with ...
'': 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. * ''Japan-easy'': An educational program used to learn basics of the Japanese language using English language. The program is available in two curriculums, the latter known as ''Japan-easy II''. Each curriculum has 24 episodes. * '' 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


NHK World Premium (entertainment channel)

NHK World Premium NHK World Premium is a TV news and entertainment broadcasting service offered by NHK World-Japan, the international arm of Japan's public broadcaster NHK. The service is aimed towards overseas Japanese and the overseas market, similar to worldwi ...
broadcasts a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in
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, NHK World Premium's contents are shown instead on JSTV-branded subscription channels run by NHK Cosmomedia Europe and headquartered in the UK. The service is known as テレビジャパン ( TV Japan) in the US, which is run by NHK Cosmomedia America. Contents generally do not carry English subtitles.


Radio

NHK World Radio Japan (RJ) is the international radio arm of NHK. It broadcasts a weekly lineup of news, current affairs, cultural, and educative
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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.


Radio Japan's shortwave relay stations

NHK World Radio Japan runs a domestic SW relay station on 9750 kHz from 8:00 to 16:00 UTC: * Yamata It also leases some hours by several external relay stations for English service in: *
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Satellite and internet service

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,
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s, 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. * NHK is available on Apple TV,
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See also

*
Television in Japan Television in Japan was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with Kenjiro Takayanagi's pioneering experiments in electronic television. Television broadcasting was halted by World War II, after which regular televisio ...
* International broadcasting in Japan * International news channels


References


External links

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NHK World Premium

NHK World-Japan on YouTube

NHK World Radio Japan interval signal
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