Editing NHK (section)

==TV programming==
{{See also|List of anime broadcast by NHK}}

NHK broadcasts a variety of programming.

===News===
NHK offers local, national, and world news reports. ''[[NHK News 7]]'' airs daily and is broadcast bilingually with both Japanese and English audio tracks on NHK General TV and NHK's international channels TV Japan and [[NHK World Premium]]. The flagship news program ''[[News Watch 9]]'' is also bilingual and airs on NHK General TV and the international channels and NHK World Premium. ''World News'', a program which airs bulletins from international broadcasters interpreted in Japanese, is aired on NHK BS1 with ''Catch! Sekai no Top News'' in the morning and ''International News Report'' at night, with the latter also airing on NHK World Premium. News on NHK BS1 is aired at 50 minutes past the hour except during live sports events.

NHK also offers news for the deaf (which airs on NHK Educational TV), regional news (which airs on NHK General TV) and children's news. ''[[NHK Newsline|Newsline]]'' is an English-language newscast designed for foreign viewers and airs on [[NHK World-Japan|NHK World]].

In his book ''Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News'', Ellis S. Krauss states: 'In the 1960s and 1970s, external critics of NHK news were complaining about the strict neutrality, the lack of criticism of the government, and the 'self-regulation in covering events'. Krauss claims that little had changed by the 1980s and 1990s.<ref>{{cite book |first=Ellis S. |last=Krauss |title=Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News |publisher=Cornell University Press |date=2000 |pages=39–40}}</ref> After the [[Fukushima nuclear disaster]] in 2011, NHK was criticised for underplaying the dangers from [[radioactive contamination]].{{Failed verification|date=September 2023}}

===Emergency reporting===
Under the Broadcasting Act, NHK is under the obligation to broadcast early warning emergency reporting in times of natural disasters such as earthquakes and [[tsunami]]s. Their national network of seismometers in cooperation with the [[Japan Meteorological Agency]] makes NHK capable of delivering [[Earthquake Early Warning (Japan)|earthquake early warnings]] seconds after detection, as well as a more detailed report with [[Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale|Shindo]] intensity measurements within two-to-three minutes after the quake. They also broadcast air attack warnings in the event of war, using the [[J-Alert]] system.<ref>{{cite news |last=Corkill |first=Edan |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20110320a1.html |title=Planning pays off as NHK takes its quake news global |work=[[The Japan Times]] |date=20 March 2011 |page=9}}</ref>

All warnings are broadcast in Japanese, with tsunami warnings also delivered in four foreign languages: English, Mandarin Chinese, Korean and Portuguese (Japan has small [[Chinese people in Japan|Chinese]], [[Koreans in Japan|Korean]] and [[Brazilians in Japan|Brazilian]] populations). The warnings were broadcast in these languages during the [[2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Japan earthquake & Tsunami warning systems - 11 Mar 2011 on TV (part2of2) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYLh6AroU20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804025208/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYLh6AroU20 |archive-date=4 August 2011 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

===Sports===
NHK broadcasts [[Sumo|sumo wrestling]], [[baseball]] games, [[Olympic Games]], [[Association football|soccer]] games, and a range of other sports. Their broadcast of the last two days of October 1952's autumn [[honbasho|sumo tournament]] became the first ever televised sports broadcast in Japan.<ref>{{cite web |title=50 Years of NHK Television: Competing with the Best |url=https://www.nhk.or.jp/digitalmuseum/nhk50years_en/categories/p40/index.html |access-date=11 February 2022 |publisher=NHK}}</ref>

===Music===
The [[NHK Symphony Orchestra]], financially sponsored by NHK, was formerly (until 1951) the Japanese Symphony Orchestra. Its website details the orchestra's history and ongoing concert programme.<ref>{{cite web |title=NHK Symphony Orchestra |url=http://www.nhkso.or.jp/en/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826013102/http://www.nhkso.or.jp/en/index.html |archive-date=26 August 2010 |access-date=24 November 2010 |publisher=NHK}}</ref> Since 1953, NHK has broadcast the ''[[Kōhaku Uta Gassen]]'' song contest on New Year's Eve, ending shortly before midnight in [[PIX System]].

===Drama===
A [[Asadora|sentimental morning show]], a weekly [[jidaigeki]] and a year-long show, the ''[[Taiga drama]]'', spearhead the network's fiction offerings.

NHK is also making efforts at broadcasting dramas made in foreign countries as {{Nihongo|''overseas drama''|海外ドラマ|''Kaigai Dorama''}}.

===Children===
The longest running children's show in Japan, {{Nihongo3|''With Mother''|おかあさんといっしょ|[[Okaasan to Issho]]}}, started broadcasting in 1959<ref>{{cite web |title=50 Years of NHK Television |url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/digitalmuseum/nhk50years_en/categories/p45/index.html |access-date=13 September 2009 |publisher=NHK |page=45}}</ref> and still airs to this day Monday to Friday at 17:36–18:00&nbsp;[[Japan Standard Time|JST]], Sunday at 17:30–17:54&nbsp;JST, with rebroadcasts Tuesday to Sunday at 5:00–5:24&nbsp;JST on NHK World Premium.<ref>{{cite web |title=NHKワールド・プレミアム |trans-title=NHK World Premium |url=https://nhkworldpremium.com/ |publisher=NHK |language=ja}}</ref>