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Animation studio
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An animation studio is a company producing animated media. They also own rights over merchandising and creative rights for characters created/held by the company, in some early cases, they also held patent rights over methods of animation used in certain studios that were used for boosting productivity. Overall, they are business concerns and can function as such in legal terms, currently there are about 201 animation studios dedicated to the production and distribution of animated films that are active. Few are actual production house where as others are corporate entities, many of these animation studios help with the fulfillment of animation works for big brand names and have carried out outsourced projects including Nemo. Though beaten to the post of being the first studio, Brays studio employee, Earl Hurd, the patents for animation systems using drawings on transparent celluloid sheets and a registration system that kept images steady were held under this firm. Bray also developed the basic division of labor used in animation studios. The biggest name in animation studios during this time was Disney Brothers Animation Studio, co-founded by Walt. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which laid the foundation for other studios to try to make full-length movies. In 1932 Flowers and Trees, a production by Walt Disney Productions and United Artists, won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. Disney continued to lead in technical prowess among studios for a long time afterwards, as can be seen with their achievements. In 1941, Otto Messmer created the first animated television commercials for Botany Tie ads/weather reports and they were shown on NBC-TV in New York until 1949. This marked the first forays of animation designed for the screen and was to be followed by the first animated series specifically made for television, Crusader Rabbit. It was in 1958 that The Huckleberry Hound Show claimed the title of being the first all new half-hour cartoon show, in 2002, Shrek, produced by DreamWorks and Pacific Data Images won the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Since then, Disney/Pixar have produced the most number of either to win or be nominated for the award. Direct-to-video animation has seen a rise, as a concept, in the Western markets, current studios such as Warner Bros. and early ones such as Fleischer Studios, started life as small, independent studios, being run by a very small core group. After being bought out or sold to companies, they eventually consolidated with other studios. The drawback of this setup was that there was now a major thrust towards profitability with the management acting as a damper towards creativity of these studios, examples of such co-operation are the joint ventures between DreamWorks and Paramount Pictures and that of Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. In 1961, these began to be aired in the USA. Toei Animation, formed in 1956, was the first Japanese animation studio of importance, after the formation of Toei Animation Co. Ltd. in 1956, the Japanese studios churned out minor works of animation
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Suginami
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Suginami is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. In English, The English translation of its Japanese self-designation is Suginami City, as of May 1,2015, the ward has an estimated population of 561,700 and a population density of 16,490 persons per km². The total area is 34.06 km², Suginami occupies the western part of the ward area of Tokyo. Its neighbors include these special wards, to the east, Shibuya and Nakano, to the north, Nerima and its western neighbors are the cities of Mitaka and Musashino. The Kanda river passes through Suginami, the Zenpukuji river originates from Zenpukuji Park in western Suginami, and the Myoshoji river originates in Myoshoji Park, to the north of Ogikubo station. The name Suginami dates back to the early Edo period and is a version of Suginamiki. This name came about when a land baron, Lord Tadayoshi Okabe. The ward was founded on March 15,1947, in 1970,40 high school students were exposed to photochemical smog and required hospitalization. The incident attracted attention and increased awareness of the dangers of pollution. The following neighborhoods make up Suginami-ku, historically, Suginami has leaned toward liberal activism. In 1954, local housewives launched the Suginami Appeal against nuclear weapons, the ward has also passed an ordinance placing limits on the installation of security cameras. To combat burglaries, which reached a number of 1,710 in 2002. The ward urged residents to plant flowers facing the street, with the goal of increasing neighborhood watchfulness. In addition,9,600 volunteers were recruited for neighborhood safety patrols,200 security cameras were placed at crime-vulnerable areas, subsequent to the start of the program, burglaries were down 80% to 390 in 2008. As of 2006, the mayor of Suginami is Hiroshi Yamada, Suginami refused to connect to Japans Residents Basic Registry Network. As of 2005, it is implementing a measure to make registry optional, public high schools are operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education. Bones is headquartered in Igusa, while Sunrise has its headquarters near the Kami-Igusa Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line, bones was founded by former members of Sunrise, and staff at each company often help each other on projects. The Satelight studio, founded in Sapporo, relocated to the Asagaya neighborhood in 2006, in addition, many smaller studios are based here, as of 2006, over 70 studios were located in Suginami
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Japanese yen
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The yen is the official currency of Japan. It is the third most traded currency in the exchange market after the United States dollar. It is also used as a reserve currency after the U. S. dollar, the euro. Before the Meiji Restoration, Japans feudal fiefs all issued their own money, hansatsu, in an array of incompatible denominations. The New Currency Act of 1871 did away with these and established the yen, the former han became prefectures and their mints private chartered banks, which initially retained the right to print money. To bring an end to this situation the Bank of Japan was founded in 1882, following World War II the yen lost much of its prewar value. To stabilize the Japanese economy the exchange rate of the yen was fixed at ¥360 per $1 as part of the Bretton Woods system, when that system was abandoned in 1971, the yen became undervalued and was allowed to float. The yen had appreciated to a peak of ¥271 per $1 in 1973, then underwent periods of depreciation and appreciation due to the 1973 oil crisis, arriving at a value of ¥227 per $1 by 1980. Since 1973, the Japanese government has maintained a policy of intervention. The Japanese government focuses on an export market, and tries to ensure a low yen value through a trade surplus. Since that time, however, the yen has greatly decreased in value, the Bank of Japan maintains a policy of zero to near-zero interest rates and the Japanese government has an extreme anti-inflation policy. Yen derives from the Japanese word 圓, which is cognate with the Chinese yuan, originally, the Chinese had traded silver in mass called sycees and when Spanish and Mexican silver coins arrived, the Chinese called them silver rounds for their circular shapes. The coins and the name appeared in Japan. While the Chinese eventually replaced 圓 with 元, the Japanese continued to use the same word, the spelling and pronunciation yen is standard in English. This is because mainly English speakers who visited Japan at the end of the Edo period to the early Meiji period spelled words this way, ゑん /wen/ in historical kana orthography. In the 16th century, Japanese /e/ and /we/ both had been pronounced and Portuguese missionaries had spelled them ye, some time thereafter, by the middle of the 18th century, /e/ and /we/ came to be pronounced as in modern Japanese, although some regions retain the pronunciation. In the early Meiji era, James Curtis Hepburn, following Medhurst, spelled all es as ye in his A Japanese and that was the first full-scale Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary, which had a strong influence on Westerners in Japan and probably prompted the spelling yen. Hepburn revised most of yes to e in the 3rd edition in order to mirror the contemporary pronunciation and this was probably already fixed and has remained so ever since
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Anime
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Anime is Japanese hand-drawn or computer animation. The word is the pronunciation of animation in Japanese, where this term references all animation. Arguably, the abstract approach to the words meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan. For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product, some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of orientalism. The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917, and Japanese anime production has continued to increase steadily. Anime is distributed theatrically, by way of television broadcasts, directly to home media and it is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences. Anime is an art form with distinctive production methods and techniques that have been adapted over time in response to emergent technologies. It consists of an ideal story-telling mechanism, combining art, characterization, cinematography. The production of anime focuses less on the animation of movement and more on the realism of settings as well as the use of effects, including panning, zooming. Being hand-drawn, anime is separated from reality by a gap of fiction that provides an ideal path for escapism that audiences can immerse themselves into with relative ease. Diverse art styles are used and character proportions and features can be quite varied, the anime industry consists of over 430 production studios, including major names like Studio Ghibli, Gainax, and Toei Animation. Despite comprising only a fraction of Japans domestic film market, anime makes up a majority of Japanese DVD sales and it has also seen international success after the rise of English-dubbed programming. This rise in popularity has resulted in non-Japanese productions using the anime art style. Anime is an art form, specifically animation, that all genres found in cinema. In Japanese, the term refers to all forms of animation from around the world. In English, anime is more used to denote a Japanese-style animated film or television entertainment or as a style of animation created in Japan. The etymology of the anime is disputed. The English term animation is written in Japanese katakana as アニメーション and is アニメ in its shortened form, in English, anime—when used as a common noun—normally functions as a mass noun
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Tokyo
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Tokyo, officially Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan and one of its 47 prefectures. The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous area in the world. It is the seat of the Emperor of Japan and the Japanese government, Tokyo is in the Kantō region on the southeastern side of the main island Honshu and includes the Izu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Formerly known as Edo, it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters. It officially became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from the old capital of Kyoto in 1868, Tokyo Metropolis was formed in 1943 from the merger of the former Tokyo Prefecture and the city of Tokyo. The Tokyo metropolitan government administers the 23 Special Wards of Tokyo, the metropolitan government also administers 39 municipalities in the western part of the prefecture and the two outlying island chains. The population of the wards is over 9 million people. The prefecture is part of the worlds most populous metropolitan area with upwards of 37.8 million people, the city hosts 51 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, the highest number of any city in the world. Tokyo ranked third in the International Financial Centres Development IndexEdit, the city is also home to various television networks such as Fuji TV, Tokyo MX, TV Tokyo, TV Asahi, Nippon Television, NHK and the Tokyo Broadcasting System. Tokyo ranked first in the Global Economic Power Index and fourth in the Global Cities Index. The city is considered a world city – as listed by the GaWCs 2008 inventory – and in 2014. In 2015, Tokyo was named the Most Liveable City in the world by the magazine Monocle, the Michelin Guide has awarded Tokyo by far the most Michelin stars of any city in the world. Tokyo ranked first in the world in the Safe Cities Index, the 2016 edition of QS Best Student Cities ranked Tokyo as the 3rd-best city in the world to be a university student. Tokyo hosted the 1964 Summer Olympics, the 1979 G-7 summit, the 1986 G-7 summit, and the 1993 G-7 summit, and will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo was originally known as Edo, which means estuary. During the early Meiji period, the city was also called Tōkei, some surviving official English documents use the spelling Tokei. However, this pronunciation is now obsolete, the name Tokyo was first suggested in 1813 in the book Kondō Hisaku, written by Satō Nobuhiro. When Ōkubo Toshimichi proposed the renaming to the government during the Meiji Restoration, according to Oda Kanshi, Tokyo was originally a small fishing village named Edo, in what was formerly part of the old Musashi Province. Edo was first fortified by the Edo clan, in the twelfth century
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TV Tokyo
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TV Tokyo Corporation TYO,9413 is a television station headquartered in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Also known as Teleto, a blend of terebi and Tokyo and it is one of the major Tokyo television stations, particularly specializing in anime. The station is owned by Nihon Keizai Shimbun. TV Tokyo was established by the Japan Science Promotion Foundation in 1951, a limited liability company, Tokyo Channel 12 Production, was formed for the channel on July 1,1968. In October 1973, the name was shortened to Tokyo Channel 12, a month later, it became a general purpose TV station along with Japan Educational Television. In 1981, it was renamed, this time to Television Tokyo Channel 12. In 1983, TV Tokyo formed the Mega TON Network with TV Osaka, the company shifted its head offices from Shiba Park to Toranomon in December 1985. On June 25,2004, the company assumed its current English name of TV Tokyo Corporation, on November 7,2016, TV Tokyo moved its headquarters to new building at Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower from its old studios in Toranomon. Call sign, JOTX-DTV Remote controller ID7 Tokyo Skytree, Channel 23 Analog Transmission ceased on 24 July 2011, （ハケンOLは見た. ） Little Tokyo Live every Wednesday, around midnight Ii-tabi Yume-Kibun （いい旅・夢気分） Drive a GO. Saturday Special Stay at the countryside, （田舎に泊まろう. ） Japan Countdown Enka no Hanamichi （演歌の花道） Yan-yan Music studio （ヤンヤン歌うスタジオ） Drama 24 Yukemuri Sniper Uramiya Honpo URAKARA Majisuka Gakuen Y. Brave and Devils Castle （勇者ヨシヒコと魔王の城） Theater Gold 24 TWENTY FOUR Season 5 Sunday Big Valiety Monday Premiere
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Fuji Television
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Fuji Television Network, Inc. is a Japanese television station based in Odaiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, also known as Fuji TV or CX, based on the stations call sign JOCX-DTV. It is the station of the Fuji News Network and the Fuji Network System. Fuji Television also operates three television stations, known as Fuji TV One, Fuji TV Two, and Fuji TV Next. It is owned by Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. the holding company of the Fujisankei Communications Group, the headquarters are located at 2-4-8, Daiba, Minato, Tokyo. The Kansai office is found at Aqua Dojima East, Dojima, Kita-ku, the Nagoya office is found at Telepia, Higashi-sakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya. Fuji Television Network Inc. was founded on November 18,1957, in June of that year, Fuji TV formed a network with Tokai TV, Kansai TV, and KBC Television. In October 1966, a network of exchanging news with local stations with the name of FNN was formed. On April 1,1986, Fuji TV changed their logo from the old Channel 8 logo. In 1986 and 1987, Fuji TV worked with Nintendo to create two games called All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. and Yume Kojo, Doki Doki Panic for the Famicom. All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. was a version of Super Mario Bros. with some minor changes. The Lost Levels and some enemies being replaced with Japanese celebrities with comedic effect, Yume Kojo, Doki Doki Panic later became the basis for Super Mario Bros. 2, which was released a year later. JOCX-TV2 featured numerous experimental programs on low budgets under this and follow-on brands, the JOCX-TV2 branding itself was changed in October 1988 to JOCX-TV+, which lasted until September 1991, when it was replaced with GARDEN/JOCX-MIDNIGHT in October 1991. Meanwhile, Fuji TV helped produced only the series of the British childrens television programme Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends with its creator. The GARDEN/JOCX-MIDNIGHT branding lasted until September 1992 when it was replaced with the JUNGLE branding, on March 10,1997, Fuji TV moved from their old headquarters in Kawadacho, Shinjuku, into a new building in Odaiba, Minato designed by Kenzo Tange. On March 3,2006, Fuji Television Network Inc. consolidated Nippon Broadcasting Holdings, Inc. the broadcasting business of which was taken over by Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. two days before. On October 1,2008, a former Fuji TV became a certified broadcasting holding company Fuji Media Holdings, Inc. Fuji TV, which broadcasts Formula One in Japan since 1987, is the only media sponsor of a Formula One Grand Prix in the world. Fuji TV has also licensed numerous Formula One video games including Human Grand Prix IV, Channel Sakura called Fuji TV the Traitor Network in these protests
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Persona 5
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Persona 5 is a role-playing video game developed by Atlus for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 video game consoles. Persona 5 is chronologically the sixth installment in the Persona series, published by Atlus in Japan and North America and by Deep Silver in Europe and Australia, the game was released first in Japan in September 2016, and worldwide in April 2017. In Western regions, Persona 5 was the first main game in the series since Persona 2, Persona 5 takes place in Tokyo, and follows a silent protagonist after their transfer to the fictional Shujin Academy after being put on probation for an assault he was falsely accused of. As with previous titles in the series, the party does battle with enemies using manifestations of their psyche called Personas. The game incorporates role-playing elements and dungeon exploration alongside social simulation scenarios, preparatory work began around the same time as the development of Persona 4, with full development beginning after the release of Catherine in 2011. Returning prominent staff from previous games included director and producer Katsura Hashino, character designer Shigenori Soejima, first announced in 2013, the game was delayed from its original late 2014 release date so its quality could be further improved. Persona 5 was met with acclaim upon its release, with many deeming to be one of the greatest role-playing games of all time. These various activities raise character attributes, which in turn grant passive buffing effects during battle, when in the real world, the main protagonist can develop character relationships dubbed Confidant. An evolution of the Social Link system from Persona 3 and 4, the main cast are among those with Confidant branches, with some leading to possible romances. Within Memento dungeons, the party can fulfill requests for non-playable characters received through a sympathetic in-game forum connected to one of the Confidant links. While navigating, the party uses stealth to avoid the sight of enemy Shadows, when exploring story-centered Palaces, an Alertness Meter is present, where the party being spotted results in security being raised alongside awareness of their presence. If security becomes too tight, the party is forced to leave the Palace, the Alertness level can be lowered by launching surprise attacks on and eliminating enemies. In battle, the party has access to long-range and short-range weapons, Personas, the manifestations of the main characters inner psyche, in this game summoned through the mask each character wears. Beginning with an initial Persona, the party uses elemental, physical and magical attacks, if a character strikes an enemys weak point, they are awarded an additional turn and knock down the enemy. When all enemies are knocked down, a Hold Up session is triggered, during Hold Up, the party can launch a devastating All-Out Attack, demand money or items, or enter Negotiation. If a party member is knocked out, they can be captured by the enemy Shadows, new Personas are gained from battle through successful Negotiation, and different Persona types are represented through different arcana linked to relevant Confidant links. Personas can in turn be fused and further manipulated within the Velvet Room, within the Velvet Room, Personas can be fused with Guillotine fusion processes, with the resultant Persona inheriting skills and stats from its parents. The more skills a Persona has, the more are passed on to the fused Persona, how powerful Personas are through fusion depends on how advanced its associated Confidant link is
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Fairy Tail
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Fairy Tail is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Hiro Mashima. It has been serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 2,2006, the story follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel, a teenage wizard who is a member of the popular wizards guild Fairy Tail, as he searches for the dragon Igneel. The manga has been adapted into a series produced by A-1 Pictures, Dentsu Inc. and Satelight. Additionally, A-1 Pictures has developed seven original video animations and two animated feature films, the series ended its initial run on March 30,2013. A second series premiered on TV Tokyo on April 5,2014, in December 2010, Kodansha Comics USA took over North American release of the series. The Southeast Asian network Animax Asia aired an English-language version of the anime for seven seasons from 2010 to 2015, the anime has been licensed by Funimation for an English-language release in North America. As of February 2017, Fairy Tail had 60 million copies in print, the fictional world of Earth-Land is populated by wizards who coalesce into guilds to hone their magical abilities and apply them for paid job requests. Seventeen-year-old wizard Lucy Heartfilia runs away home to join Fairy Tail. She is invited into the guild by Natsu Dragneel, a wizard with dragon-like abilities who travels the kingdom of Fiore in search of his foster father. Natsu forms a team with his cat-like companion Happy and Lucy, later to be joined by ice wizard Gray Fullbuster, the five embark on numerous guild missions, which include subjugating criminals, illegal dark guilds, and ancient Etherious demons created by the dark wizard Zeref. Several of Fairy Tails members encounter the immortal Zeref on the sacred ground of Sirius Island. A conflict over Zeref ensues between Fairy Tail and the dark guild Grimoire Heart, which attracts the attention of the black dragon Acnologia. Shortly after the missing wizards return, Fairy Tail participates in the Grand Magic Games, in doing so, they prevent a time travel conspiracy by a future counterpart of Rogue Cheney, one of the rival competitors, to ravage the kingdom with dragons brought from the past. Zeref, observing these events, decides to eradicate humanity for their continuing conflicts and he thus oversees a battle between Fairy Tail and Tartaros, a dark guild of Etherious demons who aim to unseal E. N. D. Acnologia returns to annihilate both guilds, but is stopped when Igneel emerges to battle him, revealed to have sealed himself within Natsu, the wizards defeat Tartaros while Igneel is killed by Acnologia, whom Natsu vows to defeat and avenge Igneels death. One year later, Natsu returns from a journey to discover that Fairy Tails master Makarov Dreyar has been staving off an invasion by the Alvarez Empire. During their battle with Zerefs army, Natsu discovers his origins as Zerefs younger brother, realizing his and Zerefs lives are intertwined, Natsu overcomes his demonic transformation by asserting his identity as a human, allowing him to battle Zeref without dying. After finishing his previous work, Rave Master, Hiro Mashima found the story sentimental and sad at the same time and his inspiration for the series was simply sitting in bars and partying with his friends, the community aspect
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Asahi Broadcasting Corporation
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Asahi Broadcasting Corporation is a regional radio and television broadcaster headquartered in Osaka, Japan, serving in the Kansai region. ABC started AM radio broadcasting on November 11, may 25,1955 - ABC and New Japan Broadcasting Company founded Osaka Television Co. Ltd. in Dojima, Kita-ku, Osaka. Currently, ANA Crowne Plaza Hotel Osaka is located at the place the office of OTV used to be. December 1,1956 - OTV started television broadcasting on channel 6, the station was a primary KRT affiliate with a secondary NTV affiliation. 1958 - NTV programming was dropped with the launch of Yomiuri Television, march 1,1959 - ABC acquired OTV and renamed the television station ABC Osaka Television and its callsign of TV station was changed. June 1,1959 - ABC merged with OTV, and has been broadcasting both television and radio since then, the head office of OTV was named ABC Dojima Station for the use of the TV station. May 2,1965 - ABC joined Japan Radio Network,1966 - Dispersed offices and studios were integrated into the headquarters building in Oyodo-minami, Oyodo-ku, Osaka. March 31,1975 - ABC pulled out of JNN and joined All-Nippon News Network on behalf of Asahi Shimbun, ABC was one of founders of Japan News Network, the first news network of commercial television stations in Japan. November 23,1978 - The frequency of ABC AM radio changed from 1010 kHz to 1008 kHz, march 23,2001 - ABC acquired ISO14001 certification, the first broadcaster in Japan to do so. January 1,2008 - The ABC logo was redesigned, featuring the call letters ABC, a simplified version is used in program credits. The current advertising slogan of the station, Info Designing ABC, was also launched, may 19,2008 - ABC moved the headquarters from Oyodo-minami Nichome, Kita-ku to Fukushima Itchome, Fukushima-ku, Osaka. June 23,2008 - ABC started broadcasting from its present headquarters, july 24,2011 - Analog television operations ended on ABC at noon before a baseball game. The station now broadcasts in digital only. JONR Osaka,1008 kHz,50 kW,93.3 MHz FM Kyoto,1008 kHz,300 W Time, Saturday morning news and information Good morning, this is ABC. - Saturday Salad of travel News in the evening ABC NEWS You →NEWS You Plus →CAST, Quiz Panel Quiz Attack 25 Variety M-1 Grand Prix Knight Scoop Knight in Night Monday, Gokigen Brand-new Tuesday, Ameagari Kesshitai, Find the Gaps between Women and Men. Wednesday, Ima-chans Jitsu wa Thursday, B-Bop High-heel ThatS a DRAMATIC CHANGE, the gold medal of laughter, etc. Anime broadcast Sunday morning Futari wa Pretty Cure → Futari wa Pretty Cure Max Heart → Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star → Yes, → Suite PreCure♪ → Smile PreCure. This is the DJ, Yozo Dojo, ABC Young Request ABC Freshup Baseball, etc
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Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation
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Founded as New Osaka Television Co. S. A. - weekday morning show, on Yomiuri TV from 5,20 a. m. until 6,30 a. m. together with Nippon TV morning show Zip. until 8 a. m. Until 15,00 p. m. every Sunday Osaka Honwaka TV - on Yomiuri TV from 10,30 p. m. until 11,30 p. m. every Sunday Kenmin Show, Coming Out the Local Seacrets. Kobochan Inuyasha /Inuyasha, The Final Act Black Jack Magic Knight Rayearth Yatterman Yumeiro Patissiere Dragon Crisis Beelzebub, asahi Broadcasting Corporation Kyoto Broadcasting System Co. Ltd. Kansai Telecasting Corporation Television Osaka, Inc, sUN-TV Biwako Broadcasting Nara TV TV Wakayama Osaka Broadcasting Corporation FM OSAKA FM802 FM Cocolo Television in Japan Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation corporate website Official website of ytv
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Tokyo Metropolitan Television
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Tokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting Corporation is the only commercial television station in Tokyo, Japan that exclusively serves the city. It competes with Nippon Television, TV Asahi, NHK, Tokyo Broadcasting System, TV Tokyo, Tokyo MX was founded on April 30,1993, and broadcasts commenced on November 1,1995. Shareholders include the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo FM Broadcasting and electronics manufacturer Sony, every week, Tokyo MX airs the press conferences of Tokyo Governor. It is a member of the Japanese Association of Independent Television Stations, a second channel, Tokyo MX2, began broadcasting in April 2014. The channel operates on the second sub-channel of Tokyo MX and is dedicated to alternative programming. Analog, Channel 15 Digital, Channel 20 UHF anime Official website English information
