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6 unusual facts about NHK


Actroid

The ReplieeQ1-expo was modeled after a presenter for NHK news.

Ai No Shizuku

The show was first aired live nationally on NHK on October 30, 2010 and rebroadcast multiple times after that on NHK because it was well received.

Akio Yashiro

He received several prizes for his compositions, including the Eighth Mainichi Music Prize in 1957 for String Quartet, which he had written while studying abroad, and Sixteenth Otaka Prize and the Twenty-first National Art Festival Award in 1968 for his Piano Concerto (1964–1967) which was commissioned by NHK.

Breakfast Time

Last January 17, 1983 during Breakfast Time's first broadcast, letters and telegrams have been sending to offices and different breakfast shows around the world have greet Breakfast Time luck such as Network Ten for Australia, CTV for Canada, CBS and ABC for the United States, TVB for Hong Kong and NHK for Japan.

Isshin Tasuke

These aired on TBS (1969, 52 episodes starring Tarō Yamada), Fuji (1971, 25 episodes, starring Ryōtarō Sugi), Asahi (ANB) (1989, a New Year special starring Tōru Nakamura), Nippon Television (1990, a special with Morio Kazama), and NHK (1999, 24 episodes on Friday evening prime time) with Naoto Ogata as Tasuke.

Legacy for the Future

Run on NHK for seventeen installments in 1974 and 1975, the theme of the program was "why civilizations flourished and declined."


Alan Shallcross

One of his last productions was a serial adaptation of the Oswald Wynd novel The Ginger Tree (1989) co-produced by the BBC, Japanese broadcaster NHK and WGBH Boston.

Allen Vizzutti

Allen Vizzutti has performed in 60 countries with an array of artists and ensembles including Chick Corea, Doc Severinsen, The NBC Tonight Show Band, the Airmen of Note, the Army Blues, Chuck Mangione, Woody Herman, Japan's NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Kosei Wind Orchestra.

Angela Aki

Angela Aki was chosen to sing Bob Dylan's "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" with her original Japanese lyrics for the movie Heaven's Door, and was chosen to write and perform the theme song titled “Ai no Kisetsu” for the NHK morning drama “Tsubasa” broadcast from March 30, 2009.

Be Your Wings/Friendship/Wait for You

Be Your Wings was used as the theme song of PlayStation Portable game Tales of VS., Friendship was used as a Coca-Cola commercial song, and Wait for You was used as the theme song of NHK's broadcast of J-League.

Corrector Yui

Two manga series were also released: a two volume series by Asamiya and published in Ciao from 1999 to 2000; and a nine volume two-part series by Keiko Okamoto which was published by NHK Publishing.

Digital audio

Commercial digital recording was pioneered in Japan by NHK and Nippon Columbia, also known as Denon, in the 1960s.

Doai Station

The climb up the steps from the underground platform features at the start of the novel, NHK dramatization and movie versions of Climber's High by Hideo Yokoyama.

Edge West Productions

For more than a decade, Day has been an active producing partner with National Geographic Channel, Public Broadcast Service, Discovery, The History Channel, TLC, BBC Television, Channel Four (TV UK), and NHK Japan.

Eisuke Yoshiyuki

The 1997 NHK Asadora Aguri was based on Eisuke's life with his wife Aguri.

Elemental Technologies

Media and entertainment companies using Elemental products include the BBC, Big Ten Network, CBS Interactive, Columbus Communications, Comcast, Deltatre, Disney, ESPN, Eurosport, Foxtel, HBO, MLB, National Geographic, NBA, NHK, PBS, QVC, Telefonica, Terra Networks, TF1, VMMA, Warner Bros., WRN Broadcast, Viacom and Vubiquity.

Follow the Nightingale

Kokia featured in several minor media outlets in promotion of the single, such as internet TV show Ameba Studio on November 24, the NHK TV show Manga Yawa on the 29th, and on the Nippon Broadcasting radio show Mucomi on December the 6th.

Gō Wakabayashi

Returning to NHK, he portrayed Saitō Yoshitatsu in the 1973 taiga drama Kunitori Monogatari. He has also appeared as Sanada Yukimura in Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983), and as the same warrior in Dokuganryū Masamune (1987).

Hato no kyojitsu

The video is accompanied by a custom-made orchestra piece (composed by Shirō Fukai), and features three doves, each representing the three televisions networks in Japan at the time (NHK, Nippon Television, and TBS).

Hu Kun

He has performed in many major concert venues and been broadcast by the BBC, Classic FM, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, New York Classic FM and NHK.

Hybrid Rainbow

It was used as ending music for "NHK BS2 WEEKEND joy" and featured in FLCL.

I've Been Working on the Railroad

NHK introduced this version of the song in 1967 in a TV program called Minna no Uta ("Everyone's Songs").

JSTV

The channel currently broadcasts in DVB-S on Hot Bird 6, encrypted in Cryptoworks and Conax (except some programmes) and broadcasts programs of NHK, Fuji TV, TV Tokyo and other main Japanese broadcasters.

Kanose

After the war, NHK Japan broadcast a drama called Christmas in Kanose, based on the Christmas 1944 concert run by the prisoners and directed by POW Frank Smith, from the West End of London .

Kaoru Kakizakai

Kakizakai has performed widely in Japan and abroad, including as shakuhachi soloist in Toru Takemitsu's November Steps with the NHK Symphony Orchestra.

Katsuya Kondō

He also worked with Tomomi Mochizuki on the NHK Minna no Uta music video titled Kaze no Tōri Michi, produced by Ajia-do Animation Works for Sayuri Horishita.

Kōhaku

Kōhaku Uta Gassen, an NHK music show broadcast every New Year's Eve

Mongolian National Broadcaster

As well as broadcasting domestically produced materialit also has program exchanges with Russian Public TV, NHK, CNN, ZDF and Deutsche Welle.

Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre

Foreign television companies such as the American JWM Productions (Discovery Channel) and NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) have filmed documentaries on mummies in the museum.

Nexus 4/Shine

The double A-side single features the song "Nexus 4" which was used in a commercial for the Subaru Legacy and the song "Shine" which was used as the opening song for the NHK anime series Guardian of the Spirit.

NHK Broadcasting Center

NHK also hosts a number of international broadcasters at the center, including KBS of South Korea, CCTV of China, ABC of United States, and ABC of Australia.

Nichiyō Tōron

The debate is usually held in NHK's Chiyoda Hōsō Kaikan studio in Kioichō in central Tokyo, close to Nagatachō, where the Diet building, the national Liberal Democratic and Democratic party headquarters as well as the prime minister's office (Kantei) and residence (Kōtei) are located.

Otowa Yurikago Kai

From 1943 to 1951, it also was NHK Tokyo Children's Choir, attached to the Tokyo Broadcasting Station (JOAK) of the NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation radio network.

Patrick Harlan

They quickly made a name for themselves, winning the Tokyo FM King of Comedy Tournament and making it to the finals of NHK's Shinjin Engei Taisho both in 1999.

Psy-S

Silent Song (サイレント・ソング) (1987): One of Psy・S most famous songs, Silent Song was created with assistance from the Barbee Boys' guitarist Tomotaka Imamichi for the radio station NHK-FM's Sound Street project.

Rakudai Ninja Rantarō

The anime adaptation, Nintama Rantarō, began broadcasting on NHK in 1993 and a side-story anime film Eiga Nintama Rantarō premiered in 1996' several Nintama Rantarō video games were also published since 1995.

Takashi Hosokawa

He took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for 32 consecutive years, but he was finally forced to reject NHK's offer in 2007 due to the Enten controversy.

Teruhiko Saigō

Among them are Mōri Hiromoto (in Mōri Motonari, 1997), Sanada Yukimura (Aoi Tokugawa Sandai, 2000), and Honda Masanobu (NHK's Taiga drama Musashi, 2003) in addition to Katakura Kagetsuna.

As an actor, he has portrayed people as varied as 20th century Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka (in the 1983 film Shōsetsu Yoshida Gakkō) and 16th century samurai Katakura Kagetsuna (in the 1987 NHK Taiga drama Dokuganryū Masamune).

The Golden Cups

The band also soon won a regular place on the NHK-TV morning show, Young 720, and a recording deal with the Capital label owned by Toshiba.

Trip Dancer

It was used as ending music for NHK-FM's "music square" The song Trip Dancer was featured in their 1997 album Please Mr. Lostman.

Václav Hudeček

Since his London debut he has appeared all over the world on the most prestigious stages (Carnegie Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Suntory Hall, Osaka Festival Hall) with the best world's orchestras (Berliner Philharmoniker, Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, NHK Philharmonic Orchestra) as well as on the world festivals (Osaka, Salzburg, Istanbul, Perth, Helsinki).

Vlach Quartet

They had a Residency in 1997 in the Japanese University town of Gifu and were broadcast by NHK, Japan's principal station.

Yoshio Itagaki

He has appeared on the American television program Nightline and on News 11 on Japan's NHK.

Zhou Weihui

She has presented her work in a large number of Western publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, CNN, USA Today, the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Stern, Welt am Sonntag, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, Le Monde, ND Le Figaro.


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