The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is covering the Dutch national elections profoundly. In a so-called 100 minute program Dutch society and culture is investigated intensively. Besides filming for this program extra reportages are produced about the rise extreme right in the Netherlands, about Wilders voters,… Read More

After the in-depth coverage before the Brexit referendum, NHK Europe correspondent Kaori Nagao plans a report on the effects of the Brexit on the Dutch society and economy.

The Japanese public broadcaster NHK is covering the upcoming Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom extensively. They produce both a documentary as background- and news reportages. Apart from reporting from the UK, NHK is also visiting Denmark and the Netherlands, because both countries are known… Read More

People in the Netherlands and Germany are becoming more and more worried about the bad state of the two Belgian nuclear power plants in the cities Tihange and Doel. Together with the German city Aachen, the Dutch city Maastricht even started a court case to… Read More

European agricultural ministers are holding emergency talks about the problems European farmers have with the decreasing prices for agricultural products. NHK Europe correspondent Kaori Nagao produces a reportage about a small Belgian dairy farmer that will demonstrate in Brussels to get financial support from the… Read More

Sail Amsterdam is the largest free public event in the world. Its inaugural edition took place in 1975 as part of celebrations marking Amsterdam’s 700th jubilee. At the heart of this internationally renowned event is an immense flotilla of Tall Ships, maritime heritage, naval ships… Read More

An armed man walked into the editorial offices of the Dutch public TV news program NOS Journaal just before 20.00 hours demanding broadcasting time. The man was directed to an empty studio and after this the personnel warned the police. A little later the intruder… Read More

One month after the MH17 plane crash the Japanese public broadcaster NHK broadcasts two special programs about the tragic disaster. NHK correspondent Koji Gondaira visits the Netherlands to find out how the identification of the victims is doing and if there is already something to… Read More

On June 13, Shigeru Ban receives the 2014 Pritzker Architecture Prize in front of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Tom Pritzker, Chairman and President of The Hyatt Foundation and sponsor of the prize, decorated the Japanese architect personally. Shigeru Ban, a Tokyo-born, 56-year-old architect with offices… Read More

The Government of Japan has donated €13.25 million to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Trust Fund to support the organisation’s operations related to the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons program. It is the single largest donation received to date into this… Read More

It turns out that hundreds of copies of the famous diary of Anne Frank have been vandalized in libraries in Japan. More than 300 copies of the diary of Anne Frank and other books related to Anne Frank were found in public libraries in and… Read More

The Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention has its Eighteenth Session in the first week of December 2013 at the World Forum in The Hague, next to the OPCW Headquarters. As requested by The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons… Read More