NHK World - Japan HD Sunday

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 Hoshis have been making the same delicious cakes for over 50 years - peek inside the kitchen of a family bringing a taste of joy to the community.

The perfect shading in beautiful tie-dyed patterns may result from sections randomly touching in the dye - discover the future of clamp-resistant dyeing.

Today: saying how much you can do. Naing Myo Oo from Myanmar works at a sign-making company - in a role play challenge, he must let his supervisor know how much work he can accomplish in a day.

Kimura Naoko makes non-toxic crayons from remaindered fruits and vegetables, labelled 'apple' or 'yam' instead of 'red' or 'yellow'. Her aim is to spread love for earth's bounty.

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 number of women in the Ukrainian military has soared since the start of the Russian invasion - we follow these soldiers as they face the enemy and their own growing sense of despair.

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

Explore Izumo Oyashiro, one of Japan's most iconic and sacred shrines. With 1,300 years of history and countless myths, this ultimate two-hour tour reveals its deep spiritual and cultural appeal.

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

Nancy, a city in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, became famous for its association with the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century - it is regarded as an open-air 'art museum'.

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

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

We travel the Izumo Highway, which has been used since ages past, and meet people who value human connection such as a magatama jewellery artisan and a pro wrestler learning farming in a village.

Puppet action show for children. In a distant post-human future where surviving creatures have formed a community, new-breed dinosaur girl Rockie sets out on hilarious adventures with her schoolmates.

Leading experts teach us by means of demonstrations and quizzes how to listen to the Earth and prepare for earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes and other life-threatening natural disasters

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 great Japanese music! This time, angela - a duo popular for anime songs - and SKE48, a Nagoya-based sister group of AKB48, stop by the studio to chat and perform.

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.

Nostalgia is spreading in Japan for the Showa era (1926-1989) - we introduce electronics, retro designs, and other elements of a period that many Japanese people consider the 'good old days'.

We take in Mount Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, and meet some cats on the way - one called Bond carries out top-secret missions at a peach orchard as another patrols its 100-year-old winery home.

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 Hoshis have been making the same delicious cakes for over 50 years - peek inside the kitchen of a family bringing a taste of joy to the community.

The perfect shading in beautiful tie-dyed patterns may result from sections randomly touching in the dye - discover the future of clamp-resistant dyeing.

Today: saying how much you can do. Naing Myo Oo from Myanmar works at a sign-making company - in a role play challenge, he must let his supervisor know how much work he can accomplish in a day.

Kimura Naoko makes non-toxic crayons from remaindered fruits and vegetables, labelled 'apple' or 'yam' instead of 'red' or 'yellow'. Her aim is to spread love for earth's bounty.

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 number of women in the Ukrainian military has soared since the start of the Russian invasion - we follow these soldiers as they face the enemy and their own growing sense of despair.

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

Explore Izumo Oyashiro, one of Japan's most iconic and sacred shrines. With 1,300 years of history and countless myths, this ultimate two-hour tour reveals its deep spiritual and cultural appeal.

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

We travel the Izumo Highway, which has been used since ages past, and meet people who value human connection such as a magatama jewellery artisan and a pro wrestler learning farming in a village.

Puppet action show for children. In a distant post-human future where surviving creatures have formed a community, new-breed dinosaur girl Rockie sets out on hilarious adventures with her schoolmates.

Leading experts teach us by means of demonstrations and quizzes how to listen to the Earth and prepare for earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes and other life-threatening natural disasters

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 great Japanese music! This time, angela - a duo popular for anime songs - and SKE48, a Nagoya-based sister group of AKB48, stop by the studio to chat and perform.

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.

Nostalgia is spreading in Japan for the Showa era (1926-1989) - we introduce electronics, retro designs, and other elements of a period that many Japanese people consider the 'good old days'.

We take in Mount Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, and meet some cats on the way - one called Bond carries out top-secret missions at a peach orchard as another patrols its 100-year-old winery home.

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

Nancy, a city in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, became famous for its association with the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century - it is regarded as an open-air 'art museum'.

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

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 Hoshis have been making the same delicious cakes for over 50 years - peek inside the kitchen of a family bringing a taste of joy to the community.

The perfect shading in beautiful tie-dyed patterns may result from sections randomly touching in the dye - discover the future of clamp-resistant dyeing.

Today: saying how much you can do. Naing Myo Oo from Myanmar works at a sign-making company - in a role play challenge, he must let his supervisor know how much work he can accomplish in a day.

Kimura Naoko makes non-toxic crayons from remaindered fruits and vegetables, labelled 'apple' or 'yam' instead of 'red' or 'yellow'. Her aim is to spread love for earth's bounty.

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 number of women in the Ukrainian military has soared since the start of the Russian invasion - we follow these soldiers as they face the enemy and their own growing sense of despair.

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

Explore Izumo Oyashiro, one of Japan's most iconic and sacred shrines. With 1,300 years of history and countless myths, this ultimate two-hour tour reveals its deep spiritual and cultural appeal.

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

We travel the Izumo Highway, which has been used since ages past, and meet people who value human connection such as a magatama jewellery artisan and a pro wrestler learning farming in a village.

Puppet action show for children. In a distant post-human future where surviving creatures have formed a community, new-breed dinosaur girl Rockie sets out on hilarious adventures with her schoolmates.

Leading experts teach us by means of demonstrations and quizzes how to listen to the Earth and prepare for earthquakes, typhoons, volcanoes and other life-threatening natural disasters

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 great Japanese music! This time, angela - a duo popular for anime songs - and SKE48, a Nagoya-based sister group of AKB48, stop by the studio to chat and perform.

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.

Nostalgia is spreading in Japan for the Showa era (1926-1989) - we introduce electronics, retro designs, and other elements of a period that many Japanese people consider the 'good old days'.

We take in Mount Fuji, Japan's tallest mountain, and meet some cats on the way - one called Bond carries out top-secret missions at a peach orchard as another patrols its 100-year-old winery home.

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 Hoshis have been making the same delicious cakes for over 50 years - peek inside the kitchen of a family bringing a taste of joy to the community.

The perfect shading in beautiful tie-dyed patterns may result from sections randomly touching in the dye - discover the future of clamp-resistant dyeing.

Today: saying how much you can do. Naing Myo Oo from Myanmar works at a sign-making company - in a role play challenge, he must let his supervisor know how much work he can accomplish in a day.

Kimura Naoko makes non-toxic crayons from remaindered fruits and vegetables, labelled 'apple' or 'yam' instead of 'red' or 'yellow'. Her aim is to spread love for earth's bounty.

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

Nancy, a city in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, became famous for its association with the Art Nouveau movement at the end of the 19th century - it is regarded as an open-air 'art museum'.

NHK World-Japan presents a variety of short programmes focusing on Japan and Asia.

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

Wang Yuan Wei knows what it's like to feel lost - he now offers children from overseas a safe place to call home where they too can say 'tadaima'.

The first of five episodes on EXPO 2025 - besides reducing CO2 emissions, a key factor in global warming, explore new ways to capture it from the atmosphere in a cutting-edge carbon recycling factory.

The Nishimonai Bon Odori Festival has been held for over 700 years - Koike finds timeless beauty in its costumes remade using beloved family kimonos.

We meet Ukrainian Ivanna Berezovska, a female sumo wrestler who fled the war and now trains in Fukuoka, and Indonesian Kertowidodo Harsono who takes care of traditional Japanese gardens in Aichi.

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 Murakami Kaizoku were seafarers and fighters in the Seto Inland Sea - we explore their history and legacy with footage from time-lapse creator Shimizu Daisuke. This time: Nii Oshima Island.

...Your Life. Japan has a long history of natural disasters - 'Bosai' explores how to overcome them and save lives with the power of science.

The Japanese language is rich in words and expressions influenced by nature, history, and culture - this episode looks at words related to sumo. Explore the unique culture behind them.

A new version of Easy Japanese is coming to TV first this time. Learn simple expressions you can put to use whether you're visiting or staying; tune in and start speaking

A popular cafe in Osaka offers international dishes on a day-by-day rotating basis - this helps the foreign residents who prepare them, called 'one-day chefs', to get involved in Japanese society.

NHK World-Japan will offer catch-up viewing of all international programmes, including news and live sport, from the 1st of October, 2025 - we introduce these convenient new services.

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

Visiting places across Japan to introduce the charms of their local daily life and festivals fostered by the nation's long 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

Featuring a local soy sauce brewery that has developed a novel product that is helping it gain new customers.

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

Miyahara Osamu publishes a small newspaper in Kuma, a village in western Japan hit by heavy rain in 2020; we follow him as he encourages disaster-hit villagers in their efforts to rebuild their lives.

Chef Nobuko, her cameraman husband Makoto, and their cat Tama take us on a tasty journey of local cuisine served with a side of seasonal scenery at the Satoyama Kitchen guesthouse in Hida Takayama.

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

We meet Ukrainian Ivanna Berezovska, a female sumo wrestler who fled the war and now trains in Fukuoka, and Indonesian Kertowidodo Harsono who takes care of traditional Japanese gardens in Aichi.