NHK World HD Saturday

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

The latest programme in our series on the Takiyama Hospital incident covers developments including its director's resignation and how the case reveals issues in Japan's psychiatric care system.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Discover Japan's oldest private medicinal herb garden in Uda, where the natural landscape from 300 years ago is preserved in a botanical time capsule as a sanctuary of the local culture and history.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Join May J. for Japanese music! This week: Furui Riho (a singer-songwriter with gospel roots) and shallm (a band project from vocalist lia, who also works on their music and lyrics).

This program is an animation series about a Japanese dog, Charo. He meets and is helped by many mythical creatures of Northern Japan as he searches for eight star talismans. Tohoku series 1-7.

Japanology Plus' explores Japanese life and culture - in this digest, we look at tatami mats, a quintessentially Japanese flooring material.

Enjoy the coming of spring in northern Hokkaido with happy kitties, visit an art gallery occupied by 11 cats, and do some evening yoga with a kitty at a lodge.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Starting with a fat bike tour of Tottori's famous sand dunes, we ride through this beautiful part of western Japan, discovering a unique spirit of inventiveness and a gutsy approach to life.

Design is fun - design feels good! Cutting-edge images and music guide children to enjoy exploring the ideas and tweaks in the designs all around us.

This programme employs 'mitateru', a Japanese technique, to inspire children's imagination by encouraging them to view objects differently and develop their unique perspectives and creativity.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Located on the Mediterranean Sea, the beauty of the port city of Barcelona in Spain attracts tourists from all over the world - its rich history and unique architecture make it a popular destination.

NHK Newsline delivers the latest news, business, and weather every hour with stories and analysis from Japan, the rest of Asia, and around the world

Junko lives with her cat among the mountains of Nagano - she runs a restaurant specialising in soybeans and passes on her methods to local children.

Kyoto has about 2,700 temples that hold an array of Buddhist statues - sculptors breathe life into these objects of worship.

Accelerate your Japanese language skills! Learn practical and effective workplace expressions, understand business culture, and improve your kanji.

Anyone can come in and make clothes at Yoshimura Mayu's atelier - the materials are discards from industry and major brands, and working together leads to great ideas they couldn't come up with alone.