NHK Radio 2

Japanese national radio station

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NHK Radio 2

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Broadcast area| Japan
Programming
Format| Education, language lessons
Ownership
Owner| NHK

Sister stations

| NHK Radio 1
NHK FM Broadcast
History

First air date

| April 6, 1931 (1931-04-06)
Links
Webcast| NHK Net Radio (only available in Japan)

NHK Radio 2 (NHKラジオ第2放送, NHK Rajio Dai-ni Hōsō) is a Japanese radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its output consists of education and culture programming[1] where NHK Radio 2 is regarded[by whom?] as the radio version of NHK Educational TV and is broadly similar to South Korea's EBS FM. NHK Radio 2 is available mainly on AM. It began broadcasting on April 6, 1931.

## Overview

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It was created in 1931 as a predominantly educational station, since there were only three stations in 1939, the existing Tokyo station as well as the Osaka and Nagoya stations adopted the name "City Broadcasting". Broadcasts were suspended in December 1941 due to the Pacific War, but were resumed on September 1, 1945 after the end of the war and Japan's surrender.[2]

## Planned closure

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It has been suggested that NHK Radio 2 will shut down and the AM network will be reduced to one network.[3][4] On January 13, 2021, NHK drafted a plan aiming at the 2025 fiscal year. The goal was to reformat the AM frequencies in order to limit to NHK Radio 1. It was suggested that the shutdown was planned for 2025.[5]

The management committee will compile public opinion for the total closure of the station at the end of 2025 and, after approval by the Diet, the official decision to close the station will be taken, with total closure scheduled for 2026.[6]

In order to carry out a demonstration experiment in preparation for the closure of Radio 2 Broadcasting, starting from the reorganization in the spring of 2022, the English language course program "Basic English for Junior High School Students" (Level 1) was broadcast on a trial basis from 6 o'clock (Monday to Friday) on NHK Radio 1. Level 2 of the course was broadcast on NHK FM.[7]。In 2023, "Radio English Conversation" and "Radio Business English" were added at 7 o'clock.[8]。

## Frequencies

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Region | City | Call sign | Frequency | Power

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Hokkaido | Sapporo | JOIB | 747 kHz | 500 kW
Hakodate | JOVB | 1467 kHz | 1 kW
Asahikawa | JOCC | 1602 kHz | 1 kW
Obihiro | JOOC | 1125 kHz | 1 kW
Kushiro | JOPC | 1152 kHz | 10 kW
Kitami | JOKD | 702 kHz | 10 kW
Muroran | JOIZ | 1125 kHz | 1 kW
Tōhoku | Sendai | JOHB | 1089 kHz | 10 kW
Akita | JOUB | 774 kHz | 500 kW
Yamagata | JOJC | 1521 kHz | 1 kW
Morioka | JOQC | 1386 kHz | 10 kW
Fukushima | JOFD | 1602 kHz | 1 kW
Aomori | JOTC | 1521 kHz | 1 kW
Kantō-Kōshin'etsu | Tokyo | JOAB | 693 kHz | 500 kW
Nagano | JONB | 1467 kHz | 1 kW
Niigata | JOQB | 1593 kHz | 10 kW
Kōfu | JOKC | 1602 kHz | 1 kW
Tōkai-Hokuriku | Nagoya | JOCB | 909 kHz | 10 kW
Kanazawa | JOJB | 1386 kHz | 10 kW
Shizuoka | JOPB | 639 kHz | 10 kW
Fukui | JOFC | 1521 kHz | 1 kW
Toyama | JOIC | 1035 kHz | 1 kW
Kansai | Osaka | JOBB | 828 kHz | 300 kW
Chugoku | Hiroshima | JOFB | 702 kHz | 10 kW
Okayama | JOKB | 1386 kHz | 5 kW
Matsue | JOTB | 1593 kHz | 10 kW
Tottori | JOLC | 1125 kHz | 1 kW
Yamaguchi | JOUC | 1377 kHz | 5 kW
Shikoku | Matsuyama | JOZB | 1512 kHz | 5 kW
Kōchi | JORB | 1152 kHz | 10 kW
Takamatsu | JOHD | 1035 kHz | 1 kW
Kyushu-Okinawa | Fukuoka | JOLB | 1017 kHz | 50 kW
Kitakyushu | JOSB | 1602 kHz | 1 kW
Kumamoto | JOGB | 873 kHz | 500 kW
Nagasaki | JOAC | 1377 kHz | 1 kW
Kagoshima | JOHC | 1386 kHz | 10 kW
Miyazaki | JOMC | 1467 kHz | 1 kW
Ōita | JOID | 1467 kHz | 1 kW
Naha | JOAD | 1125 kHz | 10 kW

## See also

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* NHK Radio 1
* NHK Educational TV
* NHK FM Broadcast

## References

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1. ^ Sterling, Christopher H. (March 2004). Encyclopedia of Radio 3-Volume Set. Routledge. p. 1280\. ISBN 9781135456498.
2. ^ “Chronology of Japanese Media History” (January 1, 2018, published by Yoshikawa Kobunkan, written by Reiko Tsuchiya), page 156.
3. ^ "ＮＨＫ、衛星２波に半減 ＡＭラジオ統合―受信料一本化検討". www.jiji.com. Jiji Press. 2020-08-04. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
4. ^ NHK、AMラジオとBS削減へ 肥大化批判受け共同通信2020年8月3日
5. ^ "NHK、BSは2023年度／ラジオは2025年度にチャンネル数削減へ". phileweb. 2021-01-14. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
6. ^ "NHKラジオ第1・第2 2026年度に1波に削減 AMラジオの老舗番組、これからも聴けるの？". www.tokyo-np.co.jp. 2023-10-19. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
7. ^ 2022年度国内放送編成計画
8. ^ 2023年度国内放送編成計画

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NHK

Organization|

| Managing Committee|

* Nobuyuki Koga (president)
* Kazuo Sakakibara（interim president）
* Nobuko Akashi
* Seiji Isoyama
* Toru Okusa (fulltime)
* Yutaka Ozaki
* Yuyoshi Sakamoto
* Yoshihiro Iki
* Fuwa Yasu
* Kaori Maeda
* Eri Misuo
* Akitsugu Murata

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Former presidents|

* Kenzo Iwahara
* Shichiro Komori
* Hiroshi Shimomura
* Hachiro Ohashi
* Iwasaburo Takano
* Tetsuo Furugaki
* Kiyoshi Nagata
* Hideo Nomura
* Shinosuke Abe
* Yoshinori Maeda
* Yoshiro Ono
* Choichi Sakamoto
* Masato Kawahara
* Yoshizo Ikeda
* Keiji Shima
* Mikio Kawaguchi
* Katsuji Ebisawa
* Genichi Hashimoto
* Shigeo Fukuchi
* Masayuki Matsumoto
* Katsuhito Momii
* Ryoichi Ueda
* Akinori Maeda
* Nobuo Inaba

Former vice-presidents|

* Taeko Nagai
* Yoshinori Imai
* Naomichi Ono
* Hikaru Domoto

Services|

| Television channels|

| Television|

* General TV
* Educational TV
* BS
* BSP4K
* BS8K
* NHK World TV
* NHK World Premium (partially unscrambled)

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Radio|

* Radio 1
* Radio 2
* FM
* NHK World-Japan

Other services|

* NHK+
* NHK Net Radio Rajiru★Rajiru
* NHK Hybridcast
* Data Online

Former|

* UHF TV Experimental Station
* Hi-Vision Test Service
* BS2
* BShi
* Digital Radio
* 8K Test Service
* Oneseg 2
* BS1
* BS Premium
* BS4K
* Palau Broadcasting Station

Other services|

* NHK broadcasting format
* NHK World-Japan
* NHK-BS
* NHK News
* NHK Online
* NHK On Demand
* NHK Netclub
* NHK Archives Portal
* NHK Huayu Shijie

Regional broadcasting stations|

| Hokkaido|

* Sapporo
* Muroran
* Hakodate
* Asahikawa
* Kitami
* Obihiro
* Kushiro

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Tohoku|

* Sendai
* Akita
* Yamagata
* Tsuruoka
* Morioka
* Fukushima
* Koriyama
* Iwaki
* Aomori
* Hirosaki
* Hachinohe

Kanto-Koshinetsu|

* Broadcasting Center (metropolitan area)
* Nagano
* Matsumoto
* Niigata
* Kofu
* Yokohama
* Maebashi
* Mito
* Chiba
* Utsunomiya
* Saitama

Chubu|

* Nagoya
* Toyohashi
* Kanazawa
* Shizuoka
* Hamamatsu
* Fukui
* Toyama
* Tsu
* Gifu
* Takayama

Kinki|

* Osaka
* Kyoto
* Kobe
* Himeji
* Wakayama
* Nara
* Otsu

Chugoku|

* Hiroshima
* Fukuyama
* Okayama
* Matsue
* Tottori
* Yonago
* Yamaguchi
* Shimonoseki

Shikoku|

* Matsuyama
* Kochi
* Tokushima
* Takamatsu

Kyushu-Okinawa|

* Fukuoka
* Kitakyushu
* Kumamoto
* Nagasaki
* Sasebo
* Kagoshima
* Miyazaki
* Oita
* Saga
* Okinawa

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Broadcast radio networks in Japan

Commercial|

| AM|

* JRN (Japan Radio Network)
* NRN (National Radio Network)

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FM|

* JFN (Japan FM Network)
* JFL (Japan FM League)
* MegaNet (Megalopolis Radio Network)

Shortwave|

* Radio Nikkei

Public (NHK)|

| AM|

* Radio 1
* Radio 2

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FM|

* NHK-FM

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Radio stations in the Tokyo market

By AM frequency|

* 594
* 693
* 810
* 954
* 1134
* 1242

By SW frequency|

* 3.925

By FM frequency|

* 77.1
* 78.0
* 79.1
* 79.2
* 79.5
* 80.0
* 81.3
* 82.5
* 83.4
* 84.0
* 84.3
* 84.7
* 89.7
* 90.5
* 91.6
* 93.0

By call sign|

* Eagle 810
* JOAB
* JOAK
* JOAK-FM
* JOAU-FM
* JOAV-FM
* JODV-FM
* JODW-FM
* JOGV-FM
* JOKR
* JOLF
* JOQR
* JOTU-FM
* JOUD-FM
* JOZ
* JOZZ3AK-FM
* JOZZ3AX-FM
* JOZZ3AS-FM
* JOZZ3BA-FM
* JOZZ3BF-FM

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