Replay News - 日本語 5分ごとのニュースラジオ

Three words in the name are ordinary Japanese rather than branding: 日本 is Japan, ニュース is news and ラジオ is radio. Worth a line for anyone reading a list of stations in a language they do not have.

In Japan's ordering this is number 25 of 88, which is the middle of the list. The stations either side of it are a better guide to what the country sounds like than the head of the list is, because the head is the same few famous streams in every country.

Replay News - 日本語 5分ごとのニュースラジオ is the only station in Japan whose first tag is information, out of 88 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Japan does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only information station.

Worldwide it ranks 19 among 74 information entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

Its audio comes straight from replaynewsja.ice.infomaniak.ch, an address unique to this entry in Japan's listing. That is the simplest case there is, and it is the one where pressing play tells you the whole truth about whether the station is on air.