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BBC Japan was a
television
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available via
satellite
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in
Japan
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. Similar in format to
BBC Prime
BBC Prime was the BBC's general entertainment TV channel in Europe, Middle East, Africa, South Asia and Asia Pacific from 30 January 1995 until 11 November 2009, when it was replaced by BBC Entertainment.
Launch
BBC Prime was launched at 19: ...
(now
BBC Entertainment
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), BBC Japan showed such BBC programmes as ''
Blackadder
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'' and ''
Fawlty Towers
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'', with many of them
subtitled in
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
* Japanese people, the ethnic group that identifies with Japan through ancestry or culture
** Japanese diaspor ...
.
The channel launched on 1 December 2004 and was available on
Sky PerfecTV!
is a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service that provides satellite television, audio programming and interactive television services to households in Japan, owned by parent company SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation.
SKY PerfecTV! is also a direct ...
satellite channel 110 and Online TV Company's
IPTV
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service, but ceased broadcasting less than two years later.
Closure
On 20 March 2006, the BBC announced that its distributor JMC "no longer has the financial means to honour its contractual commitments to distribute the BBC Japan channel". On 24 April 2006, the BBC confirmed that BBC Japan would cease broadcasting on 30 April 2006.
BBC Japan set to close in April
''BBC News
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'', 8 October 2004
References
International BBC television channels
Defunct BBC television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2006
2004 establishments in Japan
2006 disestablishments in Japan
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