NHK Radio Japan
NHK Radio Japan is an international broadcaster with a long history. It was initially modeled on the BBC of the United Kingdom and founded in 1926. The first shortwave broadcast was launced in 1935. Through the dark years of World War II it was an official mouthpiece of the Imperial Army. Currently NHK World broadcasts around 65 hours of content each day in 17 languages which include: English, Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Urdu , and Vietnamese. Content is available both
via shortwave and online. Below you will find some links to connect you to some of their online service.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/spanish/ is the link to the Spanish language web portal for Radio Japan
Their english language portal page is available at http://www.nhk.or.jp/english/index.html, and their english language latest news broadcast is available at http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/ram/en/english.ram
A live stream is also avialable at http://www.nhk.or.jp/rj/ram/en/live.ram.
All of the above audio links are realplayer links. If you’re interested in using different audio player formats, they are available by visiting the portal page. NHK Radio Japan distributes audio in both realplayer and windows media compatible formats and have adopted rss for podcasting.
Additionally NHK World distributes video news. There is a 24 hour a day free news channel distributed via satellite. Some of that content is available online.
