ABSTRACT
In 2000 I published the first book in English on NHK (Krauss 2000), Japan’s mammoth public broadcasting service. Previously, there had been hundreds of books and articles, perhaps thousands, in Japanese, but foreign Japan specialists1 had paid little attention to the organization despite its importance. Even today, with over 10,000 employees, revenues and expenditures of over $6.5 billion, and with its flagship 7pm news program still among the highest rated news programs on the air, there have been few subsequent scholarly articles in English on the subject. This is a shame, because in the decade and a half since my book appeared, subsequent developments have been very interesting, especially NHK’s relationship to government and politics.
