NHK World-Japan#Radio

NHK World changed to its current name in April 2018, as an effort to "establish wider global recognition" as a service with "Japanese roots".{{cite news |title=New Programs of NHK World-Japan for 2018 |url=https://www.nhk.or.jp/corporateinfo/english/press/pdf/20180222.pdf |work=Japan Broadcasting Corporation |date=February 22, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105031038/https://www.nhk.or.jp/corporateinfo/english/press/pdf/20180222.pdf |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |format=pdf}}

On March 30, 2020, NHK World-Japan implemented a new policy for referring to Japanese names, following the common practice in the Japanese language of listing the surname first followed by the given name, in line with "moves in Japan in general".{{cite news |title=Style for Japanese persons' names |url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/information/2020033006002/ |work=NHK World-Japan |date=March 30, 2020}}

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NHK World TV started 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 free-to-air 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 SES-3 103°W.[https://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/jp/NHK-World-Japan.html Lyngsat - NHK World Japan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210708023830/https://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/jp/NHK-World-Japan.html |date=July 8, 2021 }} Accessed July 20, 2021 In the United States, NHK World-Japan is available on DirecTV channels 322 and 2049.{{Cite web |title=NHK World News Live Stream {{!}} Watch Shows Online |url=https://www.directv.com/Channels/Infomercial-Channel-322-322 |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=DIRECTV |language=en |archive-date=October 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022164023/https://www.directv.com/Channels/Infomercial-Channel-322-322 |url-status=live }}

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 Microsoft and Japanese bank Mizuho. The NHK World-Japan digital on-screen graphic is not used at all when shows produced by JIB TV air as paid programming.

TV programs by NHK World-Japan include:{{cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/programs/|title=Programs|website=NHK WORLD-JAPAN|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721195038/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/programs/|url-status=live}}

• Begin Japanology and Japanology Plus: A Japanese culture and lifestyle television show with Peter Barakan.
• Biz Stream: 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.
• 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

Most recently, NHK World-Japan has promoting selections of their J-drama lineups under NHK Drama Showcase.{{cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/dramashowcase/|title=NHK Drama Showcase|website=NHK WORLD-JAPAN|access-date=22 February 2023|archive-date=March 14, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230314153953/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/dramashowcase/|url-status=live}}

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NHK World Premium broadcasts a mixture of news, sports and entertainment in Japanese language worldwide, via satellite and cable providers, as a subscription service mostly targeted at Japanese expatriates.

It is marketed with that very name in several regions of the world, including Asia, Oceania, Latin America and Europe. NHK World Premium's contents in Europe were previously shown on JSTV-branded subscription channels that were ran by NHK Cosmomedia Europe and headquartered in the UK. The service was known as テレビジャパン (TV Japan) in the US, which was run by NHK Cosmomedia America until it closed on March 31, 2024; its replacement streaming service, named Jme, carries an NHK World Premium stream.{{cite web|date=February 2024|url=https://tvjapan.net/en/termination/|title=Termination of TV JAPAN Service |publisher=NHK Cosmomedia America|access-date=February 21, 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240221172456/https://tvjapan.net/en/termination/|archive-date=February 21, 2024}} Contents generally do not carry English subtitles.

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NHK World Radio Japan (RJ) is the international radio arm of NHK. It broadcasts a weekly lineup of news, current affairs, cultural, and educative radio 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.{{cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ja/information/brochure/pdf/2021/radio_frequency_schedule.pdf|title=Shortwave, Medium Wave and FM Radio|author=NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)|work=NHK WORLD|access-date=20 July 2021|archive-date=October 11, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011073347/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/ja/information/brochure/pdf/2021/radio_frequency_schedule.pdf|url-status=live}}

NHK World Radio Japan runs a domestic SW relay station on 9750 kHz from 8:00 to 16:00 UTC:{{cite web|url=http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/pc/nd/nda/userlist1.txt|title=A21 Shortwave Frequency List|author=|work=Nagoya DXers Circle|access-date=20 July 2021|archive-date=July 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723063916/http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/pc/nd/nda/userlist1.txt|url-status=live}}

• Yamata

It also leases some hours by several external relay stations for English service in:

• United Kingdom
• United Arab Emirates
• Uzbekistan
• Myanmar
• Madagascar
• Vatican State - Vatican Radio
• France - Radio France Internationale

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, podcasts, 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.{{cite web|url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/faq/|title=Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)|author=NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)|work=NHK WORLD|access-date=21 July 2021|archive-date=July 21, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721192046/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/faq/|url-status=live}}

• NHK is available on Apple TV, Fire TV, and Roku streaming media players.

• Television in Japan
• International broadcasting in Japan
• International news channels

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