NHK World Radio-4

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

Rank 73 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.

The country page counts international among its commonest tags, and this station is one of the 15 entries in Japan behind that count. Worldwide the tag leads 39 stations, which makes the rail below a very wide shelf.

NHK World Radio-4 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.

This one is HLS, a segmented format rather than a single continuous stream. It is worth knowing because the failure is specific and fixable rather than a dead station: the address works, the browser just cannot open that shape of address unaided.

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-3, so it is worth setting out what separates the two. The number each one is named for is the difference between them: four here and three there. On recorded opens this entry sits lower in the country list than the other one does. In the catalogue these are two separate records, b031573d-4d75-4b3b-beef-57724438e63d and c3567819-a747-4d38-9cdc-a97d601cd5fd, and the first of those is the one to quote if you write to us about this page.