NHK Radio 1

{{short description|Japanese national radio station}}

{{Infobox radio station

| name = NHK Radio 1

| logo = NHK Radio 1 2024.svg

| city =

| area = Japan

| branding =

| frequencies = MW in kHz: 540, 549, 567, 594, 612, 639, 666, 684, 729, 891, 963, 1071, 1323, 1503

| airdate = {{start date and age|1925|07|12|df=yes}}

| format = News, talk, sport and drama

| language = Japanese

| power = 300kW (594KHz JOAK)

| coordinates =

| former_callsigns =

| former_names = NHK Radio 1

| former_frequencies =

| callsign_meaning = NHK AM

| owner = NHK

| licensee =

| sister_stations = NHK Radio 2
NHK FM Broadcast

| webcast = [http://www3.nhk.or.jp/netradio/player/index.html?r1 NHK Net Radio](only in Japan)

| website = [http://www.nhk.or.jp/r1/ NHK.or.jp/r1/]

}}

{{nihongo|NHK Radio 1|NHKラジオ第1放送|NHK Rajio Dai-ichi Hōsō}}, known by its callsign NHK AM, is Japan's oldest radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its programming output, which consists of news, current affairs, and information is broadly similar to the BBC's Radio 4 in the United Kingdom, National Public Radio in the United States, CBC Radio One in Canada and Deutschlandfunk in Germany. {{cite web|url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p04/column/index1.html|title=Regular Radio Broadcasting Begins|accessdate=27 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20020608213604/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p04/Column/index1.html |archivedate=8 June 2002}} NHK Radio 1 is available mainly on AM. The callsign is JOAK in Tokyo. It began broadcasting on July 12, 1925. During World War II, it often broadcast official announcements.{{cite book|last1=Chun|first1=Jayson Makoto|title=A Nation of a Hundred Million Idiots?: A Social History of Japanese Television, 1953 - 1973|date=6 December 2006|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135869762|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=24GQAgAAQBAJ&q=The+callsign+is+JOAK+in+Tokyo.&pg=PT37|accessdate=13 February 2017|language=en|archive-date=7 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207204653/https://books.google.com/books?id=24GQAgAAQBAJ&q=The+callsign+is+JOAK+in+Tokyo.&pg=PT37|url-status=live}}