Fred Film Radio(日本語)

One word in the name is ordinary Japanese rather than branding: 日本 is Japan. Worth a line for anyone reading a list of stations in a language they do not have.

In Japan's ordering this is number 29 of 88, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

The station's language is Japanese, the commonest of the four the directory records for Japan. Language is one of the two axes this site indexes on, and the Japanese shelf collects these stations across every country that carries them.

Among 88 stations in Japan here, this is the only one that puts culture first. The culture rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

The stream runs at 128 kbps, level with Japan's median. Bitrate stops being interesting once a station is at the local norm, and the useful question moves on to whether the stream stays up, which no snapshot can answer.

The stream is served from s10.webradio-hosting.com, which no other entry in Japan uses in this snapshot. Nothing else in the listing shares its fate: if this address stops answering it is this broadcaster's own outage, and if it plays, it plays.