Japanese public broadcaster NHK is organising a series of screenings and talks on ultrahigh-definition 8K video at MIPCOM 2019 as part of the showcase Live the Story: NHK 8K. MIPCOM takes place in ...

NHK World’s Songs of Tokyo Festival 2019 served up crowd-pleasing performances by some of the most popular names in J-pop. “Songs of Tokyo” began in 2017 aiming to spread Japan’s music and culture ...

From left, Sadao Abe, Nakamura Kankuro and Kankuro Kudo are seen at the press conference announcing the 2019 NHK historical drama at the NHK Broadcasting Center in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, on April 3, ...

Now that a huge amount of video footage can be collected easily thanks to the development of network technology, a system to produce the transcription of speech in video footage efficiently is needed ...

To compress 8K/119.88-Hz (hereafter simplified to 120-Hz) video and 22.2 ch audio, we have been developing an 8K/120-Hz encoder since FY 2017. Using this encoder, we conducted live transmission ...

NHK has announced that its 2019 "taiga" period historical drama will be about the Olympic Games. Screenwriter and actor Kankuro Kudo, 46, who was in charge of the popular 2013 "asadora" drama series ...

Political rebel and leader of the controversial NHK Kara Kokumin o Mamoru To (Party to Protect the People from NHK) Takashi Tachibana announced Tuesday that he plans to step down as an Upper House ...

The NHK Symphony Orchestra leads Japan's classical music world. It held its first concert in 1927 and has since performed regularly for over 90 years. It continues its excellent performance to this ...