TV Japan

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TV Japan

Country	United States
Broadcast area	Northern America
Headquarters	New York City
Programming
Language(s)	Japanese English (via SAP)
Picture format	480i SDTV (widescreen) 1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	NHK Cosmomedia America Inc.
History
Launched	April 1, 1991
Closed	March 31, 2024
Links
Website	TV Japan

TV Japan (テレビジャパン) was a 24-hour Japanese-language television channel geared towards the Japanese diaspora in the United States and Canada. It was the North American carrier of the NHK World Premium service. The channel was owned by NHK CosmoMedia America Inc., a subsidiary of NHK Enterprises, the commercial arm of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Japan's national public broadcaster, and was available on many cable providers in the United States and Canada, and through U.S. satellite provider DirecTV.

While there are a handful of local and regional channels in the United States with primarily Japanese programming, TV Japan was, for much of its history, the only such channel available nationwide in both the U.S. and Canada. (A modified version of Nippon Television launched through DirecTV in 2019, and on Telus Optik TV in western Canada in 2020.)^[1]

The TV Japan linear channel ceased broadcasting on March 31, 2024. After the closing date, NHK Cosmomedia continues to serve the North American market through its Jme [jp] streaming platform.^[2]