NHK World - Japan HD Sunday

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Huge crowds navigate Shibuya's scramble crossing without colliding. How? Murakami Hisashi, studying how animals move in groups, found a clue. Can amazing collective behavior shed light on life itself?

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

Accelerate your Japanese language skills! Learn practical and effective workplace expressions, understand business culture, and improve your kanji.

Substandard fabric from Himei Akira's dye works is now being made into a new composite material - with its woodgrain pattern, it's useful in everything from furniture to small accessories.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Can humans and nature coexist? Yuji, a pioneering pasture-based dairy farmer, spent his life answering that question stewarding vast grasslands - as he battles cancer, he passes the baton to his son.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

A series of poetic videos by Koichi Hozan, a videographer living in Nara, in collaboration with pianist Mine Kawakami - for which she plays exclusive pieces - helps you experience each season

NHK World-Japan will broadcast Grand Sumo May Tournament Day 15 action live from Tokyo, as top wrestlers have their fifteenth bouts of the 15-day contest

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Many now rarely-seen crafts live on in the remote villages of the Kii Mountains - we see aged artisans producing pigment from pine tree soot and crafting traditional wooden buckets and tubs.

A selection of acclaimed programmes from NHK's domestic channels dubbed into English.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Join May J. for great Japanese music! This time, DJ Night Tempo (the driving force behind a worldwide city pop boom) and up-and-coming indie rock band MEminor are in the studio to chat and perform.

This program is an animation series about a Japanese dog, Charo. He meets and is helped by many mythical creatures of Northern Japan as he searches for eight star talismans. Tohoku series 1-7.

Ueno is home to world-class cultural facilities, a bustling street market, a historic shrine and much more - we look at some of the many features that make this diverse urban environment so popular.

Chichibu is a mountainous region with lots of natural beauty; cats keep watch over a field of red spider lilies and even guide visitors through the mountains! We also meet a cat who lives at a shrine.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Huge crowds navigate Shibuya's scramble crossing without colliding. How? Murakami Hisashi, studying how animals move in groups, found a clue. Can amazing collective behavior shed light on life itself?

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

Accelerate your Japanese language skills! Learn practical and effective workplace expressions, understand business culture, and improve your kanji.

Substandard fabric from Himei Akira's dye works is now being made into a new composite material - with its woodgrain pattern, it's useful in everything from furniture to small accessories.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Can humans and nature coexist? Yuji, a pioneering pasture-based dairy farmer, spent his life answering that question stewarding vast grasslands - as he battles cancer, he passes the baton to his son.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

The shinkansen is world-renowned for exceptional on-time performance - we explore the skilled drivers and equipment that make it possible through history and into a future of self-driving trains.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Many now rarely-seen crafts live on in the remote villages of the Kii Mountains - we see aged artisans producing pigment from pine tree soot and crafting traditional wooden buckets and tubs.

A selection of acclaimed programmes from NHK's domestic channels dubbed into English.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Join May J. for great Japanese music! This time, DJ Night Tempo (the driving force behind a worldwide city pop boom) and up-and-coming indie rock band MEminor are in the studio to chat and perform.

This program is an animation series about a Japanese dog, Charo. He meets and is helped by many mythical creatures of Northern Japan as he searches for eight star talismans. Tohoku series 1-7.

Ueno is home to world-class cultural facilities, a bustling street market, a historic shrine and much more - we look at some of the many features that make this diverse urban environment so popular.

Chichibu is a mountainous region with lots of natural beauty; cats keep watch over a field of red spider lilies and even guide visitors through the mountains! We also meet a cat who lives at a shrine.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

A series of poetic videos by Koichi Hozan, a videographer living in Nara, in collaboration with pianist Mine Kawakami - for which she plays exclusive pieces - helps you experience each season

NHK World-Japan presents a sumo highlights programme for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts from May 24, Day 15 of the Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Huge crowds navigate Shibuya's scramble crossing without colliding. How? Murakami Hisashi, studying how animals move in groups, found a clue. Can amazing collective behavior shed light on life itself?

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

With a Guinness World Record as the largest wooden architectural structure, the Grand Ring was built from enough wood for 1,000 houses. We watch as it is carefully taken apart to be reused elsewhere

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

The shinkansen is world-renowned for exceptional on-time performance - we explore the skilled drivers and equipment that make it possible through history and into a future of self-driving trains.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Many now rarely-seen crafts live on in the remote villages of the Kii Mountains - we see aged artisans producing pigment from pine tree soot and crafting traditional wooden buckets and tubs.

A selection of acclaimed programmes from NHK's domestic channels dubbed into English.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Join May J. for great Japanese music! This time, DJ Night Tempo (the driving force behind a worldwide city pop boom) and up-and-coming indie rock band MEminor are in the studio to chat and perform.

This program is an animation series about a Japanese dog, Charo. He meets and is helped by many mythical creatures of Northern Japan as he searches for eight star talismans. Tohoku series 1-7.

Ueno is home to world-class cultural facilities, a bustling street market, a historic shrine and much more - we look at some of the many features that make this diverse urban environment so popular.

Chichibu is a mountainous region with lots of natural beauty; cats keep watch over a field of red spider lilies and even guide visitors through the mountains! We also meet a cat who lives at a shrine.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Huge crowds navigate Shibuya's scramble crossing without colliding. How? Murakami Hisashi, studying how animals move in groups, found a clue. Can amazing collective behavior shed light on life itself?

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

Accelerate your Japanese language skills! Learn practical and effective workplace expressions, understand business culture, and improve your kanji.

Substandard fabric from Himei Akira's dye works is now being made into a new composite material - with its woodgrain pattern, it's useful in everything from furniture to small accessories.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

A series of poetic videos by Koichi Hozan, a videographer living in Nara, in collaboration with pianist Mine Kawakami - for which she plays exclusive pieces - helps you experience each season

NHK World-Japan presents a sumo highlights programme for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts from May 24, Day 15 of the Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Chinese mother Yang Hu finds reassurance in a Japanese word that helps her connect with others while navigating cultural differences in Tokyo.

Global warming has raised sea temperatures and amplified powerful typhoons worldwide - we report on their impacts and explore the mechanisms and causes of their intensification with experts.

Tsukamoto Yoshiharu (Architect) visits Nara. Long ago, people in Nara preserved ice by building an icehouse on a mountain ridge, showing how architecture can make use of natural characteristics.

The team explores a factory in Saitama making globes for educational use and much more besides. See the skill it takes to turn flat maps into spherical globes - and what in the world is an 'AR globe'?

Wakayama in southwest Kumano is a top producer of Japanese citrus, which is said to have its origins in a legendary fruit. Through beautiful time-lapse footage, we show the area's rich natural bounty.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

A series of poetic videos by Koichi Hozan, a videographer living in Nara, in collaboration with pianist Mine Kawakami - for which she plays exclusive pieces - helps you experience each season

...Your Life. Japan has a long history of natural disasters - 'Bosai' explores how to overcome them and save lives with the power of science.

Water: The Japanese language is rich in words and expressions influenced by nature, history and culture. This episode looks at words related to water. Explore the unique culture behind them.

A new version of Easy Japanese is coming to TV first this time. Learn simple expressions you can put to use whether you're visiting or staying; tune in and start speaking

Introducing an artist who adorns Japanese kimonos with classic Hungarian embroidery. What kind of beautiful works are created by this unusual fusion of two cultural traditions?

In May, NHK World-Japan showcases Japanese technology, through regular programmes like Japan's Top Inventions and Japan Railway Journal, and a special newly translated to English: Project X

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Visiting places across Japan to introduce the charms of their local daily life and festivals fostered by the nation's long history.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Catering to the Child at Heart: This episode features services specifically tailored to the growing wants and needs of the 'kidult' market

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

NHK World-Japan presents a sumo highlights programme for fans around the globe. Today the show features all top-division bouts from May 24, Day 15 of the Grand Sumo Tournament in Tokyo

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

The team explores a factory in Saitama making globes for educational use and much more besides. See the skill it takes to turn flat maps into spherical globes - and what in the world is an 'AR globe'?

Wakayama in southwest Kumano is a top producer of Japanese citrus, which is said to have its origins in a legendary fruit. Through beautiful time-lapse footage, we show the area's rich natural bounty.