Each morning at 8 o'clock, millions of homemakers across the country tune into a 15-minute-long segment of a serialized morning drama on NHK. The current story, titled 'Manpuku,' relates the saga ...

NHK, which was forced to suspend production on projects due to Japan’s state of emergency in response to COVID-19, has created a trio of drama stories via telework.

We enter 2024 by heading to Japan, where we have spotlighted the annual taiga drama, NHK’s all-year-round historical series that has been a mainstay on Japanese screens for more than six decades. What ...

TOKYO -- An episode of public broadcaster NHK's historical drama series "Idaten" televised on April 28 marked a record low average viewership in the Kanto region for such a program at 7.1%, a ...

Yagira Yuya, the Japanese actor who won the acting prize in Cannes for his role in Koreeda Hirokazu’s “Nobody Knows,” heads the cast of “Gift of Fire,” which stands as the first ...

TOKYO -- The average viewership for all 151 episodes of NHK's drama series "Manpuku" was 21.4 percent in eastern Japan's Kanto region, revealed ratings and marketing firm Video Research Ltd. on ...