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The Japan Broadcasting Corporation, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster. It is a statutory corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license fee.
Headquarters at the NHK Broadcasting Center in Shibuya, Tokyo
Atagoyama Broadcasting Station, the birthplace of NHK, in 1930
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Television in Japan was introduced in 1939. However, experiments date back to the 1920s, with Kenjiro Takayanagi's pioneering experiments in electronic television. Television broadcasting was halted b
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Kenjiro Takayanagi, recognized in his homeland as "the father of television", was one of the pioneers in the technology that was the base for television.
A recreation of Kenjiro Takayanagi's pioneering 1926 electronic television experiment, at NHK Broadcasting Museum in Atagoyama, Tokyo
Reproduction of a street television set in the 1950s at the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum
The Tokyo Tower in 1961