Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNHK reporters in the Gaza Strip detail ongoing horrors
NHK Producer Mohammed Shehada and Cameraman Salam Abu Tahoun recently described the situation on the ground in the Gaza Strip to their colleagues in …
2 years, 5 months ago
New business players power up gaming ecosystem
Video games comprise one of the world's largest entertainment industries. But as the Tokyo Game show revealed in September, some of the hottest actio…
2 years, 5 months ago
Family of Israeli man held hostage by Hamas plead for his release
NHK spoke on Wednesday with the family of a young man captured by Hamas ahead of US President Joe Biden's visit to Israel. They're urging Washington …
2 years, 5 months ago
Baseball's world body eyes home run with esports
Baseball's governing body has teamed up with a Japanese video gaming giant in the world of esports. Officials hope success in the digital realm will …
2 years, 6 months ago
Tottori's sand dunes launch Japan's lunar ambitions
More than half a century after man first walked on the moon, the world's space powers are engaged in a new quest to unlock the secrets of Earth's nea…
2 years, 6 months ago
Daughter of British POW in Japan retraces her father's footsteps
A British woman whose late father was a prisoner of war in Japan during World War Two visited the country nearly eight decades after he left, to retr…
2 years, 6 months ago
Hong Kong wields old sedition law to further crackdown on people's freedoms
Authorities in Hong Kong are cracking down on critics of Beijing to the point of suffocation. Not only are they using a sweeping piece of national se…
2 years, 6 months ago
China's disappearing ministers leave Xi's allies looking over their shoulders
China's Defense Minister Li Shangfu has not been seen in public for more than a month, and the government is yet to say why. His absence is strange, …
2 years, 6 months ago
Kyoto, Kyiv unite in ballet spectacular
It's not every day the young students at Kyoto's Terada Ballet Art School get a visit from some of the world's top dancers. So, in August, when the c…
2 years, 6 months ago
Vienna talks on banning nuclear weapons come at critical juncture
The first meeting of states parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was held June 21-23 in Vienna. The talks came as Russia's inv…
2 years, 6 months ago