, Also known as ''Today's Close-Up'', is a current affairs television programme produced by the Japanese public broadcaster
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 ...
. The programme broadcasts on Mondays through Wednesdays at 19:30 - 19:57 (
UTC+9
UTC+09:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +09:00.
During the Japanese occupations of British Borneo, Burma, Hong Kong, Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Philippines, Singapore, and French Indochina, it was used as a common time wit ...
) on
NHK G channel, which also airs on
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 worldwid ...
and
NHK World-Japan
NHK World-Japan (formerly and also known simply as NHK World) is the international arm of the Japanese state-controlled public broadcaster NHK. Its services are aimed at the overseas market, similar to those offered by other national public-ser ...
on a weekly basis.
The ''Japan Times'' reported in January 2016 that the NHK is considering making changes to the programme, which may include the removal of
Hiroko Kuniya
(born February 3, 1957) is a Japanese news presenter and journalist. Kuniya was born in Osaka Prefecture and graduated from International School of the Sacred Heart in 1975 and then Brown University with majors in international relations and int ...
, who has hosted the show since its inception.
The show was returned as Close-up Gendai Plus on April 4, 2016, with the introduction of bi-anchor format.
On April 2, 2019, the Monday edition of the programme was cancelled due to cost-cutting measures by the NHK.
On April 4, 2022, the show was renamed back to Close-up Gendai after 6 years, with a new updated graphics. The Monday edition of the programme was revived after 3 years, while the Thursday edition was cancelled.
References
External links
Close-up Gendai PlusToday's Close-up on NHK World-Japan
Japanese television news shows
1990s Japanese television series
1993 Japanese television series debuts
NHK original programming
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