NHK World - The Japan Times

National Nov 1, 2018

NHK expands disaster-related push notifications to include Chinese language

Public broadcaster NHK said Thursday it will now provide push notifications in Chinese for disaster-related information via the NHK World news app amid a growing number of Chinese visitors to Japan. The move comes after Japan experienced a wave of natural disasters this year, including ...

Sumo | INSIDE SUMO Aug 22, 2018

English sumo broadcasts bring together diverse cast

by John Gunning

In last week's column, I talked about overseas tours by the Japan Sumo Association and also mentioned the live sumo broadcasts with English commentary on NHK. What I didn't reveal was that the latter came about as a direct result of the former. According to Hiro ...