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 ...

NHK WORLD-JAPAN presents a sumo highlights program for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HIROSHIMA, JAPAN - NOVEMBER 09: A general view of the rink during day one of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy at Hiroshima Prefectural Sports Center on November 9, 2018 in Hiroshima, ...