JP · tokyo
NHK World Radio-2
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- international
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Not stated
- Format
- Not stated
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- www3.nhk.or.jp
The directory states no bitrate for this stream, so there is nothing to draw here. The field is filled from what a stream's own server announces when it is scanned, and plenty of servers announce nothing.
The directory lists four streams in Japan under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number two. Nothing here is taken from the other three.
Among the 88 stations in Japan with pages, NHK World Radio-2 is around the halfway mark. Anything in this stretch is reachable from the country's numbered pages rather than from its front table, which is why those pages exist.
A international station on a dial where international is one of the commonest tags: 15 entries in Japan lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how Japan's broadcasters describe themselves.
Worldwide it ranks 10 among 39 international entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.
The stream is served as an HLS playlist, which is the format broadcasters use to switch bitrates on the fly and the one a plain browser audio element will not open. Nothing is wrong with the station; the player on this page simply cannot follow that kind of link without a library. The extension carries one and handles it.
Its audio comes from nhkworld-radio.nhkworld.jp. Four other stations in Japan stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.
- City or region
- tokyo
- Country
- Japan
NHK World Radio-2 is one of 68 playable stations the catalogue lists in Japan, and one of the smaller number that say where in the country they transmit from.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by NHK World Radio-2. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www3.nhk.or.jp.
Listed in the directory as NHK WORLD RADIO-2. The heading above is that entry with the web address, the trailing keyword list and the block capitals taken out of it, which is a change to the spelling and to nothing else.
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