Most Viewed From NHK BS1

Set in 1874 at the residence of an official of the Ministry of Education of Japan who was ordered with establishing a common national spoken...

Soccer Fever is an anime produced by Tokyo Movie Shinsha, RAI and TMS-Kyokuchi, it was broadcast by NHK and RAI. This anime is part of Eisei Anime...

Bimonthly show exploring aspects of sumo wrestling. Broadcast immediately before a Grand Sumo Tournament, each episode explores a single topic like...

Alice SOS is an anime series directed by Shingo Kaneko. It was broadcast every second week from April 6, 1998 until January 28, 1999.

This is a program that looks at the "now" of the world while at the same time considering the future of Japanese people. In the first year, they...

Deko Boko Friends is a collection of 30-second Japanese shorts created by a pair of advertising creators, Momoko Maruyama and Ryotaro Kuwamoto to...

Tomohiro's Railway Tour of China was a travel documentary series, produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on television, both...

At its height, the Roman Empire encompassed Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. How did it keep prospering for over 400 years? And why did it...

The story follows the lives of three modern day dinosaurs as they share a room in the Dino-Shou ("Dino Manor") apartment building complex.

Baby Felix is a children's animated television program that follows the adventures of a young Felix the Cat and infant versions of the characters...

Full Swing is a 2008 Japanese television series. It is based on the biography of Michihiro Takabatake, a professional baseball player and coach who...

Close-up Gendai, is a social affairs television show on NHK. The program is broadcast Monday through Thursday 19:30 - 20:00, 24:10 - 24:36. It is...

A large-scale special documentary program, broadcast primarily on NHK BS1 on Sunday evenings, covering a wide range of subjects.