NHK WORLD-JAPAN

NHK (JAPAN BROADCASTING CORP.)

About this app

NHK WORLD-JAPAN provides the latest information on Japan and Asia through television, radio and online to a global audience.
It is the international service of Japan’s public broadcaster NHK.

[Features]
- 19 languages available
Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

- Latest news on Japan and Asia
- Push notification of emergency information on earthquakes and tsunami *English, Chinese, Portuguese and Vietnamese
- Live streaming of 24/7 English TV channel with multilingual subtitles by AI translation
- Multilingual video and audio programs on demand

Ratings and reviews

New version has closed captioning on by default for live broadcast with no apparent way to turn it off. Please add a switch to settings. Thanks. Also, captioning is way behind video which makes it that much more disruptive and annoying. When I switch to view NHK live broadcast in browser, it is OK. No closed captioning in browser view. Just a problem in the Android app.

Good writing and journalism. The app gets only two stars because of the UX: it's hard to scroll down. While reading an article, any side movement switches over to the earthquake or tsunami panel, away from the news panel. This makes it really hard to read, and it's something that can be fixed easily.

Good news app, but the interface is very poor and makes it almost unusable. When you try to scroll down the page, it will often switch to the next tab, instead of scrolling down. This needs to be corrected, it's way too sensitive! (Copy how the Facebook app works, they have this figured out!)

What's new

Some minor improvements