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Bōshi was a Japanese television special about an elderly man who runs an old haberdashery in Kure. The drama was produced by NHK Hiroshima in 2008...

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken...

Close-up Gendai, is a social affairs television show on NHK. The program is broadcast Monday through Thursday 19:30 - 20:00, 24:10 - 24:36. It is...

NHK Nodo Jiman is one of the longest running TV programs broadcast on Japanese NHK TV and NHK radio.

Hi no Sakana is a Japanese novel by Murō Saisei; it was first published in 1960, and was later adapted into a single episode TV drama that was...

A drama series based on the novel "Totto Channeru" by famed Japanese actress Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.

News Watch 9, stylized as news Watch 9 is the flagship evening news program of the public Japanese broadcaster, NHK. It airs weekdays on NHK General...

Full Swing is a 2008 Japanese television series. It is based on the biography of Michihiro Takabatake, a professional baseball player and coach who...

Int'l After School is an English-language entertainment and pop-culture-focused programme broadcast on NHK World. It is hosted by MC Wise of Teriyaki...

Suiensaa is a scientific variety show broadcast in Japan by NHK Educational TV. The show has featured numerous members of the J-pop group AKB48.

Tomohiro's Railway Tour of China was a travel documentary series, produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on television, both...

Taiga drama is the name NHK gives to the annual, year-long historical fiction television series it broadcasts in Japan. Beginning in 1963 with the...

Eigo de Shabera Night is a Japanese talk show by NHK. The show began in 2003 and ended in 2009, however is ongoing as a special program. Contrary to...