Editing NHK (section)

===Radio broadcasting===
NHK began [[shortwave radio|shortwave]] broadcasting on an experimental basis in the 1930s, and began regular English- and Japanese-language shortwave broadcasts in 1935 under the name '''[[NHK World-Japan#Radio Japan|Radio Japan]]''', initially aimed at ethnic Japanese listeners in [[Hawaii]] and the west coast of [[North America]]. By the late 1930s, NHK's overseas broadcasts were known as '''Radio Tokyo''', which became an official name in 1941.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

In November 1941, the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] nationalised all public news agencies and coordinated their efforts via the Information Liaison Confidential Committee.{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} All published and broadcast news reports became official announcements of the Imperial Army General Headquarters in Tokyo for the duration of [[World War II]]. The famous [[Tokyo Rose]] wartime programs were broadcast by NHK.<ref name="s67"/> NHK also recorded and broadcast the ''[[Hirohito surrender broadcast|Gyokuon-hōsō]]'', the surrender speech made by Emperor [[Hirohito]], in August 1945.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Allen |first1=Thomas B. |last2=Polmar |first2=Norman |date=2015-08-07 |title=The 4-Minute Radio Broadcast That Ended World War II |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/08/emperor-hirohito-surrender-japan-hiroshima/400328/ |access-date=2023-07-12 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref>

Following the war, in September 1945, the Allied occupation administration under General [[Douglas MacArthur]] banned all international broadcasting by NHK, and repurposed several NHK facilities and frequencies for use by the [[Far East Network]] (now [[American Forces Network]]). Japanese-American radio broadcaster [[Frank Shozo Baba]] joined NHK during this time and led an early post-war revamp of its programming. Radio Japan resumed overseas broadcasts in 1952.{{fact|date=March 2024}}

A new {{ill|Broadcasting Act (Japan)|ja|放送法|lt=Broadcasting Act}} was enacted in 1950, which made NHK a listener-supported independent corporation and simultaneously opened the market for [[commercial broadcasting]] in Japan.<ref>{{cite web |title=Broadcast Law: Broadcasting for the Public |url=http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p08/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018085435/http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/aboutstrl/evolution-of-tv-en/p08/index.html |archive-date=18 October 2015 |access-date=27 July 2015 |publisher=NHK}}</ref> NHK started [[television]] broadcasting in 1953, followed by its educational TV channel in 1959 and color television broadcasts in 1960.

NHK opened the first stage of [[NHK Broadcasting Center|its current headquarters]] in [[Tokyo|Japan's capital city]]'s [[special wards of Tokyo|special ward]] [[Shibuya]] as an international broadcasting center for the [[1964 Summer Olympics]], the first widely televised Olympic Games. The complex was gradually expanded through 1973 when it became the headquarters for NHK. The previous headquarters adjacent to [[Hibiya Park]] was redeveloped as the Hibiya City high-rise complex.