NHK News

NHK is Japan's public broadcaster, funded primarily by a statutory receiving fee and operating under the Broadcasting Act, which requires impartiality. Its news division runs the country's largest broadcast newsgathering operation, and NHK News Online publishes around-the-clock coverage of domestic politics, disasters, business, and international affairs; its reporting is broadly regarded as centrist.

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NHK News at a glance

Country: Japan
Region: East Asia · Asia
Kind of outlet: Public broadcaster
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1925
Ownership: A public broadcaster funded by receiving fees
Published from: Tokyo
Website: www3.nhk.or.jp ↗
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How Crosswire groups NHK News

Crosswire groups NHK News as Centrist for comparisons within Japan's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Japan, Asahi Shimbun is listed as Left-leaning, while Yomiuri Shimbun and Sankei Shimbun are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open NHK News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where NHK News sits in Japan's press

NHK News was founded in 1925, is published from Tokyo and is a public broadcaster funded by receiving fees. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Japan and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Japan ranks second of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.

Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 9 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to NHK News outside Japan, starting with East Asia, are Lao National Radio (Laos), Radio Television Brunei (Brunei), RTTL (Timor-Leste) and TaiwanPlus (Taiwan). Opening one of them beside NHK News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.