The shortwave schedule of NHK World Radio Japan on the timelines of your cities: every broadcast with its language, frequencies, target area and transmitter site, shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.
Japanese makes up the backbone of the schedule: long blocks for Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania and the Americas keep Japanese speakers abroad in touch with home. Mandarin and Korean come as short twenty-minute programs repeated many times through the day, Russian several times for Eastern Europe and the Russian Far East, and smaller services cover Farsi, Arabic, Burmese, Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian, Hindi, Bengali, Urdu and French for Africa. English is limited to a short program for South East Asia.
Most programs go out from NHK’s own transmitter site at Yamata, north of Tokyo; broadcasts for Russia and the Middle East use relays in Lithuania, Tajikistan, Armenia and Germany. NHK publishes the schedule in UTC and changes frequencies twice a year, at the end of March and the end of October, while Japan itself never changes its clocks. This calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule and places each broadcast at its local time in each of your cities.
Select a broadcast to see its frequencies in kHz, the target area, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.
Yes. NHK broadcasts in Japanese on shortwave around the clock for Japanese living and travelling abroad, and in 14 other languages for Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Africa.
Only briefly: a short English program for South East Asia in the afternoon (UTC). Most of the schedule is in Japanese and Asian languages.
Each broadcast uses its own frequencies for its target area, mostly between 9.5 and 17.8 MHz, and they change at the end of March and the end of October. Select a broadcast on the timeline to see them in kHz.
Mostly from Yamata in Japan, with relays in Lithuania, Tajikistan, Armenia and Nauen in Germany for Russia and the Middle East.
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