JP · tokyo
NHK World Radio 7
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- international
66 kbps · AAC · 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
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- www3.nhk.or.jp
NHK World Radio 7 is one of six entries in Japan whose names are the same but for a number, and this one's number is seven. A broadcaster numbering its streams like that is separating feeds, not stations, so read the number as the part that matters.
Among the 88 stations in Japan with pages, NHK World Radio 7 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.
NHK World Radio 7 streams at 66 kbps, under Japan's median of 128 kbps. A lower rate is not automatically worse: speech carries perfectly well below the music threshold, and a station built for phones on a weak connection has a good reason to encode this way.
NHK World Radio 7 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.
Its audio comes from master.nhkworld.jp. Six 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 7 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 7. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www3.nhk.or.jp.
Listed in the directory as NHK WORLD RADIO 7. 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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