JP · tokyo · Japanese
NHK World Radio
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- international
- news
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- Japan
- Language
- Japanese
- 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.
In Japan's listing NHK World Radio lands at 8 of 88, which puts it on the first or second page of the country hub rather than in its tail.
The directory counts 31 opens against this stream. That is well above Japan's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.
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.
Across every country, NHK World Radio is 3 of the 39 stations leading with international, by the same open count the country list uses.
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 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. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www3.nhk.or.jp.
Listed in the directory as NHK WORLD RADIO. 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.
This address is a second listing of the same station in the same country. NHK World Radio is the entry the directory records more plays against, so it is the one we ask search engines to index. This page keeps working and the stream on it is the one listed here.
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