NHK is Japan's public broadcaster, funded by reception fees from television owners. The fees are standardized but offer discounts for students and workers who commute. Fees are 13,600 yen per year for terrestrial TV and 24,090 yen per year for both terrestrial and satellite TV. NHK offers local, national, and world news in Japanese and English on its TV and radio channels. It is obligated to quickly report emergencies like earthquakes and tsunamis using its seismometer network.
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NHK is funded by reception fees , a system analogous to the license fee
employed in some English-speaking countries. The Broadcast Law which governs
NHK’s funding stipulates that any television equipped to receive NHK is required
to pay. The fee is standardized, with discounts for office workers and students
who commute, as well a general discount for residents of Okinawa prefecture. For
viewers making annual payments by credit card with no other special discounts,
the reception fee is 13,600 yen per year for terrestrial reception only, and 24,090
yen per year for both terrestrial and broadcast satellite reception.
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NHK offers local, national, and world news reports. NHK News 7 which airs daily
is broadcast bilingually in 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 also air on NHK
General TV and NHK's international channels TV Japan and NHK World Premium.
World news are aired on NHK BS 1 with Catch! Sekai no Jiten in the morning and
International News Report at night with the latter airing on NHK World Premium.
News on NHK BS 1 are aired at 50 minutes past the hour except during live sport
events.
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Under the Broadcast Act, NHK is under the obligation to
broadcast early warning emergency reporting in times of
natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Their
national network of seismometers in cooperation with the
Japan Meteorological Agency makes NHK capable of
delivering the news in just 2–3 minutes after the quake. They
also broadcast air attack warnings in the event of war, using
the J-Alert system.
