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Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Explores the changing landscape of Japan's ramen and udon shops as food-service giants pull back the curtain on the industry.

One in ten Japanese got married through online spouse-hunting services in 2020. Interviewing women who use matchmaking apps, including Manami, who uses multiple apps to find a perfect partner.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

An exploration of how the ancient capital of Kyoto continues to provide a source of innovation after 1200 years.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Peter Barakan offers insights into Japan through both his own experience with the country and by meeting experts across a variety of fields within Japanese art, culture and science.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Visiting speciality tofu makers across Tokyo that are deeply rooted in their local communities and seeing how the traditional food has come to be used in all kinds of cuisine, from east to west.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Journey with us across Tokyo Bay through a massive work of tunnel and bridge engineering, and discover the many systems designed to keep travellers safe at all times.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Explores the changing landscape of Japan's ramen and udon shops as food-service giants pull back the curtain on the industry.

One in ten Japanese got married through online spouse-hunting services in 2020. Interviewing women who use matchmaking apps, including Manami, who uses multiple apps to find a perfect partner.

Daily news program that picks up the key news stories of the past 24 hours from Japan and around Asia.

An exploration of how the ancient capital of Kyoto continues to provide a source of innovation after 1200 years.

Daily news program that picks up the key news stories of the past 24 hours from Japan and around Asia.

Peter Barakan offers insights into Japan through both his own experience with the country and by meeting experts across a variety of fields within Japanese art, culture and science.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Journey with us across Tokyo Bay through a massive work of tunnel and bridge engineering, and discover the many systems designed to keep travellers safe at all times.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Visiting speciality tofu makers across Tokyo that are deeply rooted in their local communities and seeing how the traditional food has come to be used in all kinds of cuisine, from east to west.

NHK's core news program wrapping up the day's events in an easy-to-understand way.

Explores the changing landscape of Japan's ramen and udon shops as food-service giants pull back the curtain on the industry.

One in ten Japanese got married through online spouse-hunting services in 2020. Interviewing women who use matchmaking apps, including Manami, who uses multiple apps to find a perfect partner.

Comprehensive coverage of events in Japan and Asia. It explains the day's developments and what is behind them.

Sato Yasuhiro coaches top snowboarders of many nationalities. Some of them took gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. The coach explains how snowboarding can make the world a better place.

A single bite of anpan, bread filled with sweet bean paste, is sheer joy. Born at the end of the samurai era, it has over 150 years of history.

Edo was a city of waterways. The Yoroi Ferry transported people across the Nihonbashi River, one of its main commercial arteries. For the captain, it was a high-pressure job requiring skill and guts.

Comprehensive coverage of events in Japan and Asia. It explains the day's developments and what is behind them.

An exploration of how the ancient capital of Kyoto continues to provide a source of innovation after 1200 years.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Peter Barakan offers insights into Japan through both his own experience with the country and by meeting experts across a variety of fields within Japanese art, culture and science.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

The hosts discuss railway highlights across Japan in the first half of 2026, from milestones and anniversaries to commemorative events.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Explores the changing landscape of Japan's ramen and udon shops as food-service giants pull back the curtain on the industry.

One in ten Japanese got married through online spouse-hunting services in 2020. Interviewing women who use matchmaking apps, including Manami, who uses multiple apps to find a perfect partner.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Journey with us across Tokyo Bay through a massive work of tunnel and bridge engineering, and discover the many systems designed to keep travellers safe at all times.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

An exploration of how the ancient capital of Kyoto continues to provide a source of innovation after 1200 years.

Comprehensive coverage of events in Japan and Asia. It explains the day's developments and what is behind them.

Sato Yasuhiro coaches top snowboarders of many nationalities. Some of them took gold at the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. The coach explains how snowboarding can make the world a better place.

An entertainment hall home to 'Rakugo' comic stories and more for over 100 years, it is a place to relax and forget your cares, where food and drink are welcome.

Visiting an Edo-style open-air teahouse, where the townspeople enjoy refreshments, conversation, and the company of exotic birds. For them, these outings were about more than a good time.

Intimate portraits of people from around Japan, each leading diverse lives while enriching lives of others, with themes ranging from ancient traditions to contemporary social issues.

To explain what you intend to do, say a verb followed by `tsumori desu'. So `watasu' (to give) becomes `watasu tsumori desu'.

Peter Barakan offers insights into Japan through both his own experience with the country and by meeting experts across a variety of fields within Japanese art, culture and science.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

The hosts discuss railway highlights across Japan in the first half of 2026, from milestones and anniversaries to commemorative events.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Explores the changing landscape of Japan's ramen and udon shops as food-service giants pull back the curtain on the industry.

One in ten Japanese got married through online spouse-hunting services in 2020. Interviewing women who use matchmaking apps, including Manami, who uses multiple apps to find a perfect partner.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

An exploration of how the ancient capital of Kyoto continues to provide a source of innovation after 1200 years.

Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

Journey with us across Tokyo Bay through a massive work of tunnel and bridge engineering, and discover the many systems designed to keep travellers safe at all times.