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NHK World TV started broadcasting services for North America and Europe in 1995. On April 1, 1998, then-called NHK World Television started broadcasting. Today's NHK World-Japan is a current affairs and cultural channel that broadcasts internationally via satellite and cable TV. Programming is produced in English only.
Comedian. Years active. 1998–present. Agent. Office K. Known for. Reality television. Tomoaki Hamatsu (浜津 智明, Hamatsu Tomoaki, born 3 August 1975), [ 1] better known as Nasubi (なすび, "Eggplant"), is a Japanese comedian and media personality. [ 2] Hamatsu is best known for appearing on the controversial reality television show Susunu!
Television in Japan was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with Kenjiro Takayanagi 's pioneering experiments in electronic television. [ 1] Television broadcasting was halted by World War II, after which regular television broadcasting began in 1950. [ 2] After Japan developed the first HDTV systems in the 1960s ...
TVer, Inc. TVer is a Japanese ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) service. It was established in October 2015 by the five commercial broadcasters in Tokyo: Nippon Television, TV Asahi, TBS Television, TV Tokyo, and Fuji Television. It is a service that offers free internet streaming of TV programs after they have aired, with the availability ...
ABEMA (アベマ, often stylized as all caps) is a Japanese streaming service that launched on April 11, 2016, under the name AbemaTV. [2] It is majority-owned by CyberAgent, with a 55.2% stake, and TV Asahi, with a 36.8% stake, while the remaining ownership belongs to various other companies, mostly in the media and entertainment industry.
On 12 October 1960, Inejirō Asanuma (浅沼 稲次郎, Asanuma Inejirō), chairman of the Japan Socialist Party, was assassinated at Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo. During a televised debate, 17-year-old right-wing ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi charged onto the stage and fatally stabbed Asanuma with a wakizashi, a type of traditional short ...
NHK World-Japan is composed of NHK World TV, NHK World Premium, and the shortwave radio service Radio Japan (RJ). World Radio Japan also makes some of its programs available on the Internet. NHK was the first broadcaster in the world to broadcast in high-definition (using multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding, also known as Hi-Vision) and in ...
TV Japan. TV Japan (テレビジャパン) was a 24-hour Japanese-language television channel geared towards the Japanese diaspora in the United States and Canada. It was the North American carrier of the NHK World Premium service. The channel was owned by NHK CosmoMedia America Inc., a subsidiary of NHK Enterprises, the commercial arm of the ...