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June 14, 2013
Television broadcasts in next-generation 4K resolution are set to hit the airwaves in 2014, and officials are already preparing for an 8K TV with quadruple the 4K resolution to ...
March 22, 2013
Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) started radio broadcasting on March 22, 1925. Listeners outnumbered newspaper readers before the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and radio became...
February 06, 2013
Television broadcasting in Japan turned 60 years old this month. In human terms, that might be considered quite a span. But we might ask whether TV broadcasting in this country ...
January 13, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the Bank of Japan (BOJ) must set a 2 percent inflation target and make it a medium-term, not long-term, goal to show markets it was determined to ...
January 07, 2013
A team led by Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) has shot the first videos of the elusive giant squid, the largest invertebrate on the planet, in its natural environment.
December 20, 2012
Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) has found itself in a pickle over the strong expressions it uses to issue tsunami warnings on TV and radio.
October 04, 2012
In the old days, there were well-known spots near ballparks where people could watch baseball games for free. If people were seen on rooftops nearby, no one would shoot them a...
June 22, 2012
A gallery devoted to the work of Kihachiro Kawamoto (1925-2010), who crafted puppets for the Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) productions of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"...
May 17, 2012
Fumio Sudo, chairman of the board of governors of Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) and adviser to steelmaker JFE Holdings Inc., has been tapped as a new outside director for...
May 12, 2012
The 71-year-old chairman of Japan’s public broadcaster has been picked as an outside director of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the crippled Fukushima No. 1...
January 02, 2012
Like many Japanese, when Natsumi Yara first saw K-pop stars on a DVD, she got hooked.
September 13, 2011
Japanese get an average of seven hours and 50 minutes sleep each day. This is one hour less than top-ranked France, and the second shortest sleep average after South Korea,...
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