NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Trails to Oishii Tokyo Mini
Focusing on moyashi, also known as bean sprouts. They may not look like much, but they're packed with vitamins and minerals. They're easy to use, and most importantly, affordable, lending to their popularity.
Ramen Japan
Taking a look at what can only be called a `bowl of resilience'. The unique, garlic-powered tonkotsu ramen that reignited the spirit of Kumamoto post-quake. takes the centre stage.
Ramen Japan
In Yamagata, a city that eats more ramen than any other in Japan, uncover the mysteries behind the unusual local ramen!
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Design Museum Japan
Tokoname, a pottery town with over 900 years of history, creates products appropriate for the times. Kataoka finds the beauty that's present in functional objects.
Direct Talk
Otake Ryoho creates meticulously detailed wood sculptures modelled on the shapes of natural motifs such as animals and plants. He talks about his work, including a carving of a flower that blooms.
Where We Call Home
We meet Gerson Aizawa Hara, a Brazilian of Japanese descent who crafts unique bicycles in Osaka Prefecture, as well as Nepalese Thapa Magar Kumar who attends guests at a hot spring inn in Okayama.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Ramen Japan
Ramen packed with seafood goodness, loved in bitter cold northern Japan for over 100 years. Try a bowl for yourself!
Activate Your Japanese
Although Xuan was working eagerly, she was scolded by Sumire. She also happened to come across Rei being yelled at by his superior at work. Identifying with him, Xuan wants to cheer him up but cannot express herself aptly in Japanese.
Culture Crossroads
We look at the special factors that enable NHK WORLD-JAPAN to provide accurate, up-to-date information whenever a disaster strikes, including emergency reporting drills conducted by the news floor.
Hello! NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Within Japan's oldest private medicinal herb gardens grows the cures for many ailments, cultivated by knowledge passed down throughout the centuries, where the natural landscape from 300 years ago is preserved in a botanical time capsule.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
National Parks of Japan
Keramashoto National Park offers pristine waters that support a diverse ecosystem. It's also home to people who proactively carry out conservation activities and proudly carry on a distinct culture.
Seasoning the Seasons
Travels around Tateyama Mountain, surrounded by a community and alpine scenery dotted with sacred places, and its peaks are home to Tateyama Shinko, a unique system of local religious beliefs.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Time-Lapse Journey
Time lapse footage of a charming nighttime scenery that can be found in different environments all over Japan, including the cities and countryside.
Ramen Japan
Taking a look at what can only be called a `bowl of resilience'. The unique, garlic-powered tonkotsu ramen that reignited the spirit of Kumamoto post-quake. takes the centre stage.
Ramen Japan
In Yamagata, a city that eats more ramen than any other in Japan, uncover the mysteries behind the unusual local ramen!
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Design Museum Japan
Tokoname, a pottery town with over 900 years of history, creates products appropriate for the times. Kataoka finds the beauty that's present in functional objects.
Direct Talk
Takahashi Moe was a member of the Japanese team that won the top prize at the 2023 Pastry World Cup. She reflects on the experience and talks about the desserts concocted by the team.
J-MELO
Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Murasaki (members: Chisa, who's a voice actor in the Umamusume: Pretty Derby franchise, and songwriter Ramseeni); and 7-member idol group Fragrant Drive.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Origami Magic
Explores the work of a Finnish artist who creates Japanese samurai and knight origami and a Japanese artist with expertise in folding Japanese Buddhist statues.
Where We Call Home
We meet Gerson Aizawa Hara, a Brazilian of Japanese descent who crafts unique bicycles in Osaka Prefecture, as well as Nepalese Thapa Magar Kumar who attends guests at a hot spring inn in Okayama.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Trails to Oishii Tokyo Mini
Explores wasabi, Japan's fiery root, from a number of perspectives. Includes a visit to a culturally significant paddy field and a lesson on the complex history of wasabi's cultivation.
Direct Talk
Otake Ryoho creates meticulously detailed wood sculptures modelled on the shapes of natural motifs such as animals and plants. He talks about his work, including a carving of a flower that blooms.
Ukiyoe Edo-Life
We observe Red Fuji and Black Fuji, two dramatically different views of Japan's most famous mountain, captured by the artist Hokusai.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
My Street Piano
One of Japan's leading resort areas, Okinawa. In the middle of Koza Music Town, a piano is placed for a limited period. Players from all walks of life come to share their melodies.
Activate Your Japanese
Although Xuan was working eagerly, she was scolded by Sumire. She also happened to come across Rei being yelled at by his superior at work. Identifying with him, Xuan wants to cheer him up but cannot express herself aptly in Japanese.
Culture Crossroads
We look at the special factors that enable NHK WORLD-JAPAN to provide accurate, up-to-date information whenever a disaster strikes, including emergency reporting drills conducted by the news floor.
Hello! NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Within Japan's oldest private medicinal herb gardens grows the cures for many ailments, cultivated by knowledge passed down throughout the centuries, where the natural landscape from 300 years ago is preserved in a botanical time capsule.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Time-Lapse Journey
Time lapse footage of a charming nighttime scenery that can be found in different environments all over Japan, including the cities and countryside.
Seasoning the Seasons
Travels around Tateyama Mountain, surrounded by a community and alpine scenery dotted with sacred places, and its peaks are home to Tateyama Shinko, a unique system of local religious beliefs.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Ramen Japan
Ramen packed with seafood goodness, loved in bitter cold northern Japan for over 100 years. Try a bowl for yourself!
Medical Frontiers
Presents the latest discoveries on the health benefits of natto, which contains a high amount of vitamin K2 and can help lower blood sugar levels.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Trails to Oishii Tokyo Mini
Focusing on moyashi, also known as bean sprouts. They may not look like much, but they're packed with vitamins and minerals. They're easy to use, and most importantly, affordable, lending to their popularity.
Where We Call Home
We meet Gerson Aizawa Hara, a Brazilian of Japanese descent who crafts unique bicycles in Osaka Prefecture, as well as Nepalese Thapa Magar Kumar who attends guests at a hot spring inn in Okayama.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
National Parks of Japan
Keramashoto National Park offers pristine waters that support a diverse ecosystem. It's also home to people who proactively carry out conservation activities and proudly carry on a distinct culture.
Direct Talk
Otake Ryoho creates meticulously detailed wood sculptures modelled on the shapes of natural motifs such as animals and plants. He talks about his work, including a carving of a flower that blooms.
Ramen Japan
Taking a look at what can only be called a `bowl of resilience'. The unique, garlic-powered tonkotsu ramen that reignited the spirit of Kumamoto post-quake. takes the centre stage.
Ramen Japan
In Yamagata, a city that eats more ramen than any other in Japan, uncover the mysteries behind the unusual local ramen!
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Design Museum Japan
Tokoname, a pottery town with over 900 years of history, creates products appropriate for the times. Kataoka finds the beauty that's present in functional objects.
Activate Your Japanese
Although Xuan was working eagerly, she was scolded by Sumire. She also happened to come across Rei being yelled at by his superior at work. Identifying with him, Xuan wants to cheer him up but cannot express herself aptly in Japanese.
Culture Crossroads
We look at the special factors that enable NHK WORLD-JAPAN to provide accurate, up-to-date information whenever a disaster strikes, including emergency reporting drills conducted by the news floor.
Hello! NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Within Japan's oldest private medicinal herb gardens grows the cures for many ailments, cultivated by knowledge passed down throughout the centuries, where the natural landscape from 300 years ago is preserved in a botanical time capsule.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Origami Magic
Explores the work of a Finnish artist who creates Japanese samurai and knight origami and a Japanese artist with expertise in folding Japanese Buddhist statues.
Direct Talk
Takahashi Moe was a member of the Japanese team that won the top prize at the 2023 Pastry World Cup. She reflects on the experience and talks about the desserts concocted by the team.
Ukiyoe Edo-Life
We observe Red Fuji and Black Fuji, two dramatically different views of Japan's most famous mountain, captured by the artist Hokusai.
Hometown Stories
An improper diagnosis in early childhood led Shibasaki Akane to spend nearly half her life in a world without words. Following her journey as she expands her horizons and moves toward an independent future.
Easy Japanese
Please do not put wasabi in. To ask someone not to put something in your food or drink, say the name of the item, the particle 'wa', and finally 'irenaide kudasai'.
Core Kyoto Mini
A look at the many stores in Kyoto specialising in traditional snacks and treats, called Oyatsu, and highlighting some of the purveyors who continue to use age-old ingredients and methods.
Wild Hokkaido!
An exploration of the vast expanse of drift ice spanning the frigid Sea of Okhotsk in the World Natural Heritage site of Shiretoko, sets the stage for a variety of novel winter adventures.
Time-Lapse Japan
Masses of clay figurines called dogu have been recovered from sites in Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto and Chubu from the middle, late and final Jomon periods. The Sannai Maruyama village site alone turned up 1,500 figurines.
Japan From Above: Up Close
An aerial journey across 21st century Japan. Following bird's-eye views of unique landscapes as well as intimate portraits of the people who inhabit the archipelago. This time, a look at Lake Furen.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Origami Magic
Explores the work of a Finnish artist who creates Japanese samurai and knight origami and a Japanese artist with expertise in folding Japanese Buddhist statues.
Medical Frontiers
Presents the latest discoveries on the health benefits of natto, which contains a high amount of vitamin K2 and can help lower blood sugar levels.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Where We Call Home
We meet Gerson Aizawa Hara, a Brazilian of Japanese descent who crafts unique bicycles in Osaka Prefecture, as well as Nepalese Thapa Magar Kumar who attends guests at a hot spring inn in Okayama.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Activate Your Japanese
Although Xuan was working eagerly, she was scolded by Sumire. She also happened to come across Rei being yelled at by his superior at work. Identifying with him, Xuan wants to cheer him up but cannot express herself aptly in Japanese.
Culture Crossroads
We look at the special factors that enable NHK WORLD-JAPAN to provide accurate, up-to-date information whenever a disaster strikes, including emergency reporting drills conducted by the news floor.
Hello! NHK WORLD-JAPAN
Within Japan's oldest private medicinal herb gardens grows the cures for many ailments, cultivated by knowledge passed down throughout the centuries, where the natural landscape from 300 years ago is preserved in a botanical time capsule.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Ukiyoe Edo-Life
We observe Red Fuji and Black Fuji, two dramatically different views of Japan's most famous mountain, captured by the artist Hokusai.
Time-Lapse Japan
The Jomon period dates roughly from 13,000 to 300 BC. Examining various aspects of Jomon society, with footage from time-lapse creator Shimizu Daisuke. This time, a look at lacquer.
Japan From Above: Up Close
An aerial journey across 21st century Japan. Following bird's-eye views of unique landscapes as well as intimate portraits of the people who inhabit the archipelago. This time, a look at Lake Furen.
Ramen Japan
Taking a look at what can only be called a `bowl of resilience'. The unique, garlic-powered tonkotsu ramen that reignited the spirit of Kumamoto post-quake. takes the centre stage.
Ramen Japan
In Yamagata, a city that eats more ramen than any other in Japan, uncover the mysteries behind the unusual local ramen!
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Journeys in Japan
Brandon Chin visits Matsue in Shimane Prefecture to learn about the history of wagashi, a confection invented in the 18th century, and speak to the locals who are masters in the craft.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Direct Talk
Since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, Chujo Hideto has been working to support children who have been traumatised by the conflict. He talks about how he hopes to make a difference.
Dining with the Chef
Learning about Japanese home cooking with Master Chef Saito, based on traditional Japanese cooking techniques. Featured recipes include tomato oyakodon and octopus and zucchini with Nori.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Document 72 Hours
An American woman living in Aomori talks about the birds that come to their nesting site near a local shrine.
NHK Newsline
Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.
Newsline in Depth
Introducing a colourful variety of feature stories, including reports on daily life from locations throughout Japan, as well as other parts of Asia and around the world.
Medical Frontiers
Presents the latest discoveries on the health benefits of natto, which contains a high amount of vitamin K2 and can help lower blood sugar levels.
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