NHKワールド・ラジオ日本

NHKワールド・ラジオ日本 ranks 6 among 88 stations in Japan. High enough that the country hub carries it in its own tables, and far enough from the head that the neighbours below are a genuinely different set of stations from the famous ones.

NHKワールド・ラジオ日本 has 33 recorded opens in the public directory, which is a real number by the standards of this data set. Most entries never reach double figures, so a count at this level means the stream has been found and played repeatedly by people using directory clients rather than the broadcaster's own site.

NHKワールド・ラジオ日本 leads with international, a tag 15 other stations in Japan use and one the country hub lists among its headline genres. If the country's sound is what brought you here, this is squarely part of it.

Worldwide it ranks 1 among 39 international entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

NHKワールド・ラジオ日本 streams at 96 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.

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.