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    03/23/2024 4:57 am

    Sumopedia

    Explains Mono-ii, a term that is used when the bout's outcome could go either way; the judges enter the ring to review closely.

    03/23/2024 5:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 5:10 am

    Japan's Top Inventions

    The fascinating stories and secrets behind hit Japanese products, plus parts and machines that boast the top share of niche markets. This time: laptop computers and purification/separation systems.

    03/23/2024 5:40 am

    BOSAI: Science That Can Save Your Life

    PM2.5 are extremely small particles floating in the air and can have an adverse effect on the human body. A look into their dangers and countermeasures.

    03/23/2024 5:55 am

    Pythagora Switch Mini

    Featuring The Marble Brother.

    03/23/2024 6:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 6:10 am

    Digital Eye

    The Angkor Wat ruins, Japanese burial mounds, burnt Roman scrolls: Archaeology's digital revolution is revealing traces of ancient civilisations previously invisible and solving mysteries.

    03/23/2024 7:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 7:10 am

    China's Road to Fortune or Peril

    Amidst an economic slowdown, China's freelance truck drivers risk their very lives to earn money traversing the road to Tibet, feared as the most dangerous in the country.

    03/23/2024 8:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 8:10 am

    March Tournament: Day 14

    Live coverage of day 14 of the Grand Sumo March tournament.

    03/23/2024 9:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 9:10 am

    NHK World-Japan Special Program

    The latest news updates, current affairs, and documentaries on significant matters, focusing on Japan and Asia.

    03/23/2024 10:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 10:10 am

    Rene Goes to School

    Cameroonian manga creator Rene meets 16-year-old Kendri and Kevin from Cuba. The twins want to express their gratitude to their step-grandfather, who helped them adjust to life in Japan.

    03/23/2024 10:40 am

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/23/2024 10:50 am

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/23/2024 11:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 11:10 am

    Japan's Top Inventions

    The fascinating stories and secrets behind hit Japanese products, plus parts and machines that boast the top share of niche markets. This time: laptop computers and purification/separation systems.

    03/23/2024 11:40 am

    Somewhere Street A Little Stroll

    Let's have a short walk around the street in Munich, Germany where we will meet the people who is enjoying a beer, surfing etc.

    03/23/2024 11:55 am

    The Seasons of Yamato

    A series of poetic videos by Koichi Hozan, a videographer living in Nara, in collaboration with a pianist, Mine Kawakami, for which she plays exclusive pieces. This time, the duo invoke Seimei.

    03/23/2024 12:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 12:10 pm

    Digital Eye

    The Angkor Wat ruins, Japanese burial mounds, burnt Roman scrolls: Archaeology's digital revolution is revealing traces of ancient civilisations previously invisible and solving mysteries.

    03/23/2024 1:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 1:10 pm

    China's Road to Fortune or Peril

    Amidst an economic slowdown, China's freelance truck drivers risk their very lives to earn money traversing the road to Tibet, feared as the most dangerous in the country.

    03/23/2024 2:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 2:10 pm

    Rising

    Hashimura Kazunori specializes in rejuvenating unlikely destinations as luxury `glamping' sites. Since his first venture, a secluded cove in Shizuoka Prefecture now receives some 3,000 visitors per year.

    03/23/2024 2:40 pm

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/23/2024 2:50 pm

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/23/2024 3:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 3:10 pm

    NHK Documentary

    Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known, but less about the person who provided the uranium: a mysterious man who derived huge profits from the business of war.

    03/23/2024 4:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 4:10 pm

    Framing Everyday's Moments

    A unique time-lapse photography project. Shot by pros and non-pros. Flowers burst into full bloom and sprouting buds reach towards the sunlight, their movements following the rhythm of nature.

    03/23/2024 4:15 pm

    Trails to Oishii Tokyo Mini

    Silvery-white shirasu, or baby Japanese anchovies, are caught along Japan's coasts in the spring and fall. Find boiled and dried ones at local supermarkets or head closer to a fishing port to savour raw shirasu.

    03/23/2024 4:25 pm

    The Seasons of Yamato

    A series of poetic videos by Koichi Hozan, a videographer living in Nara, in collaboration with a pianist, Mine Kawakami, for which she plays exclusive pieces. This time, the duo invoke Seimei.

    03/23/2024 4:30 pm

    Grand Sumo Highlights

    Highlights of the traditional Japanese sport of sumo, this time featuring all top-division bouts from 23 March, day fourteen of the Grand Sumo Tournament held in the port city of Osaka.

    03/23/2024 4:57 pm

    Sumopedia

    The host presents the history of the long-standing sumo topknot hairstyle that reflects the positional respect of the wrestlers and conveys its tradition.

    03/23/2024 5:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 5:10 pm

    NHK World-Japan Special Program

    The latest news updates, current affairs, and documentaries on significant matters, focusing on Japan and Asia.

    03/23/2024 6:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 6:10 pm

    Digital Eye

    The Angkor Wat ruins, Japanese burial mounds, burnt Roman scrolls: Archaeology's digital revolution is revealing traces of ancient civilisations previously invisible and solving mysteries.

    03/23/2024 7:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 7:10 pm

    China's Road to Fortune or Peril

    Amidst an economic slowdown, China's freelance truck drivers risk their very lives to earn money traversing the road to Tibet, feared as the most dangerous in the country.

    03/23/2024 8:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 8:10 pm

    NHK World-Japan Special Program

    The latest news updates, current affairs, and documentaries on significant matters, focusing on Japan and Asia.

    03/23/2024 9:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 9:10 pm

    Rising

    Hashimura Kazunori specializes in rejuvenating unlikely destinations as luxury `glamping' sites. Since his first venture, a secluded cove in Shizuoka Prefecture now receives some 3,000 visitors per year.

    03/23/2024 9:40 pm

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/23/2024 9:50 pm

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/23/2024 10:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 10:10 pm

    NHK Documentary

    Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known, but less about the person who provided the uranium: a mysterious man who derived huge profits from the business of war.

    03/23/2024 11:00 pm

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/23/2024 11:10 pm

    Trails to Oishii Tokyo Mini

    Silvery-white shirasu, or baby Japanese anchovies, are caught along Japan's coasts in the spring and fall. Find boiled and dried ones at local supermarkets or head closer to a fishing port to savour raw shirasu.

    03/23/2024 11:20 pm

    The Seasons of Yamato

    A series of poetic videos by Koichi Hozan, a videographer living in Nara, in collaboration with a pianist, Mine Kawakami, for which she plays exclusive pieces. This time, the duo invoke Seimei.

    03/23/2024 11:25 pm

    Ukiyoe Edo-Life

    It's late at night, when all are fast asleep. A young man and woman huddle together on the veranda outside of a house, attending to a rooster. We investigate what the pair could be up to.

    03/23/2024 11:30 pm

    Grand Sumo Highlights

    Highlights of the traditional Japanese sport of sumo, this time featuring all top-division bouts from 23 March, day fourteen of the Grand Sumo Tournament held in the port city of Osaka.

    03/23/2024 11:57 pm

    Sumopedia

    The host presents the history of the long-standing sumo topknot hairstyle that reflects the positional respect of the wrestlers and conveys its tradition.

    03/24/2024 12:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/24/2024 12:10 am

    NHK World Prime

    In Fukushima, an Abukuma Romantic Road photo contest was held in 2010, the year before the nuclear accident. We seek out the people behind the photos and discover how life has changed for them.

    03/24/2024 1:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/24/2024 1:10 am

    Hometown Stories

    A small high school canoeing club trains hard every day. While persevering and improving their skills, they learn valuable life lessons in the clear waters of the Shimanto River in Kochi Prefecture.

    03/24/2024 1:37 am

    National Treasure

    A total golden hall suddenly appears in a remote place, Hiraizumi Town, Iwate Prefecture. 3DCG has made it possible to learn new facts that were previously unknown even to experts.

    03/24/2024 1:40 am

    Core Kyoto Mini

    Kyokusui-no-Utage, poetry with classic Heian elegance. The ancient capital continues to be innovative after 1,200 years. We dive deep into its core in this definitive programme.

    03/24/2024 1:45 am

    Wild Hokkaido!

    Dog sledding in a snow-covered world requires good communication with sled dogs. As a sled glides along and trust is developed between dogs and riders, it becomes possible to enjoy the sights of what comes into view.

    03/24/2024 2:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/24/2024 2:10 am

    Rising

    Hashimura Kazunori specializes in rejuvenating unlikely destinations as luxury `glamping' sites. Since his first venture, a secluded cove in Shizuoka Prefecture now receives some 3,000 visitors per year.

    03/24/2024 2:40 am

    Ramen Japan

    A journey across Japan exploring the traditions and food culture that surrounds one of its most popular dishes: ramen.

    03/24/2024 2:45 am

    Hit the Road

    Let's drive through Chiba Prefecture! We depart from Tokyo Station and enjoy magic hour at scenic Byobugaura. Along the way, encounter Chiba's traditions and be amazed by their artistic quality.

    03/24/2024 2:50 am

    Japanology Plus mini

    Rice crackers and other rice-based treats have been widely consumed in Japan for hundreds of years. Examining how a common variety is made, and how the rice snack industry is diversifying to fit modern needs.

    03/24/2024 2:55 am

    A Cat's-Eye View of Japan

    Enjoying the coming of spring in northern Hokkaido with a couple of happy kitties by visiting an art gallery occupied by eleven cats and doing some evening yoga with a kitty at a lodge.

    03/24/2024 3:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/24/2024 3:10 am

    Anime Manga Explosion

    Legendary manga artist Nagai Go has released over 180 works, including international hits like Mazinger Z and Devilman. Discovering what has driven the mixed-media pioneer to create for over 57 years.

    03/24/2024 3:40 am

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/24/2024 3:50 am

    Story Land in Classical Japanese

    Introduces traditional folk tales that have been told and loved in Japan for centuries. Presents the stories with the rich expressiveness of one-person performances, enhanced by illustrations that bring the tales to life.

    03/24/2024 4:00 am

    NHK Newsline

    Hourly news updates featuring current affairs, business news, financial updates and global weather forecasts.

    03/24/2024 4:10 am

    Somewhere Street A Little Stroll

    Let's have a short walk around the street in Munich, Germany where we will meet the people who is enjoying a beer, surfing etc.

    03/24/2024 4:25 am

    Time-Lapse Japan

    Okinawa Prefecture is a group of subtropical islands in the far south of Japan. We examine its past and present, with footage from time-lapse creator Shimizu Daisuke. This time: Shuri Castle.

    03/24/2024 4:30 am

    Grand Sumo Highlights

    Highlights of the traditional Japanese sport of sumo, this time featuring all top-division bouts from 23 March, day fourteen of the Grand Sumo Tournament held in the port city of Osaka.

    NHK World Europe

    Available schedules: 03/26/2022 - 12/28/2024 Time zone: Central European Time (CET) UTC +1 Country: United States Language: English

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