JP · tokyo
NHK World Radio-5
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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.
NHK World Radio-5 is one of four entries in Japan whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is five. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.
Rank 79 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.
International is one of Japan's headline genres in this directory, and NHK World Radio-5 is one of 15 stations there leading with it. The country hub prints the same tag near the top of its own list, so this station sits inside the country's main sound rather than off to one side.
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.
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.
- City or region
- tokyo
- Country
- Japan
NHK World Radio-5 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-5. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www3.nhk.or.jp.
Listed in the directory as NHK WORLD RADIO-5. 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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