Japan television guide: broadcasters, languages and local times

Domestic television and international editions

NHK General TV, Nippon TV and TBS TV are distinct domestic broadcaster references. A domestic programme service and an internationally distributed news or documentary service are different viewing routes, even when they share a broadcaster family name.

For a series, a scheduled television broadcast and an on-demand release should not be treated as one timestamp. An episode can be discussed under an English title while the domestic listing retains its Japanese name. Keeping the original title and service identity makes that relationship easier to follow.

Tokyo time retains the local date

Asia/Tokyo is the clock reference below. A North American evening announcement can become the following day in Japan. The table retains that calendar change instead of showing only an hour, which is useful when setting an early-morning reminder for an overseas event.

Dated local-time examples

These examples convert the same two UTC instants into the listed locations. They are clock calculations, not television listings. A broadcaster’s current programme guide supplies the programme start; the conversion supplies the local date and time.

Broadcaster websites

Use each broadcaster’s own programme information for its latest listings and viewing conditions. These reference links do not state that its membership or programmes are included in IPTV Australia.

Questions about this guide

Sources and further reading

• IANA Time Zone Database 2026f
• IPTV-org channel metadata