Okaasan to Issho (With Mother) was introduced on NHK General TV in 1959 as a TV series for young children aged two to four. NHK had started “programs for kindergartens and nursery schools” three years ...

Broadcasting in Japan will mark the centennial anniversary of its first broadcast in 2025, seven years from now. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the depiction and editing of each book of ...

Ama-chan (Little Diver), a morning drama shown in short daily installments on the public broadcasting station NHK, is the latest nationwide hit. Set in the Tōhoku region of northeast Honshū that bore ...