TOKYO — The Japanese television market is both big — with nearly 48 million TV households — and lucrative, with ad spend reaching $17.5 billion in 2004. In addition to the five commercial webs (Fuji ...

Beginning March 3, Japanese public broadcaster NHK will broadcast a special documentary series over nine days, presenting various perspectives on last year’s massive Great East quake, the Fukushima ...

NHK's educational channel, Educational TV, just reached its 50th anniversary last month. To mark this commemorative year, ETV will be airing numerous special programs and taking part in special ...

TOKYO — NHK Enterprises, a subsid of pubcaster NHK that sells and acquires programming, is partnering with YouTube Japan to offer NHK programs on the site free of charge. The programs on offer include ...

Deaflympics Programming and Promotional Activities HELLO! NHK WORLD-JAPAN In November 2025, the Deaflympics—an international sports competition for the hearing impaired—was held in Japan for the first ...

TOKYO -- Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has paved the way for the government to order national broadcaster NHK to provide more coverage about North Korea's abduction of Japanese nationals. By ...

Minutes of a 2018 meeting of the Board of Governors of Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK), finally disclosed after months of stonewalling by the public broadcaster, show how its top decision-making body ...

To monitor how viewers are satisfied with each program, NHK Programming Department annually takes a public opinion survey on regular programs broadcast by NHK (General TV channel), Nippon Television ...

TOKYO -- The president of Japan Post Holdings Co. admitted that the contents of a program aired by public broadcaster NHK, to which Japan Post had raised objections, had been factual, and offered an ...