NHK World Radio-3

The directory lists four streams in Japan under this name, told apart by a number alone. This page is number three. Nothing here is taken from the other three.

Rank 56 of 88 in Japan. What that mostly measures is how many people have already found the station through this directory, which is a poor proxy for anything else and an honest one to publish.

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.

NHK World Radio-3 reports no bitrate to the directory. Rather than print a zero or invent an average, the page says nothing, which is the same policy every empty field on this site gets.

NHK World Radio-3 publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.

The stream is served from nhkworld-radio.nhkworld.jp, an address four other entries in Japan use as well. A small shared host is usually a group of stations under one owner or one technical provider rather than a platform.

Of everything the directory lists in Japan, the entry this page reads closest to is NHK World Radio-4, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: three here and four there. On recorded opens this entry sits higher in the country list than the other one does.