# NHK Radio 2

NHK Radio 2 (NHKラジオ第2放送, NHK Rajio Dai-ni Hōsō) is a Japanese radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its output consists of education and culture programming where NHK Radio 2 is regarded as the radio version of NHK Educational TV and is broadly similar to South Korea's EBS FM. NHK Radio 2 is available mainly on AM. It began broadcasting on April 6, 1931.

## Overview

It was created in 1931 as a predominantly educational station, since there were only three stations in 1939, the existing Tokyo station as well as the Osaka and Nagoya stations adopted the name "City Broadcasting". Broadcasts were suspended in December 1941 due to the Pacific War, but were resumed on September 1, 1945 after the end of the war and Japan's surrender.

## Planned closure

It has been suggested that NHK Radio 2 will shut down and the AM network will be reduced to one network. On January 13, 2021, NHK drafted a plan aiming at the 2025 fiscal year. The goal was to reformat the AM frequencies in order to limit to NHK Radio 1. It was suggested that the shutdown was planned for 2025.
The management committee will compile public opinion for the total closure of the station at the end of 2025 and, after approval by the Diet, the official decision to close the station will be taken, with total closure scheduled for 2026.
In order to carry out a demonstration experiment in preparation for the closure of Radio 2 Broadcasting, starting from the reorganization in the spring of 2022, the English language course program "Basic English for Junior High School Students" (Level 1) was broadcast on a trial basis from 6 o'clock (Monday to Friday) on NHK Radio 1. Level 2 of the course was broadcast on NHK FM.。In 2023, "Radio English Conversation" and "Radio Business English" were added at 7 o'clock.。

## Frequencies

| Region | City | Call sign | Frequency | Power |
| Hokkaido | Sapporo | JOIB | 747 kHz | 500 kW |
| Hokkaido | Hakodate | JOVB | 1467 kHz | 1 kW |
| Hokkaido | Asahikawa | JOCC | 1602 kHz | 1 kW |
| Hokkaido | Obihiro | JOOC | 1125 kHz | 1 kW |
| Hokkaido | Kushiro | JOPC | 1152 kHz | 10 kW |
| Hokkaido | Kitami | JOKD | 702 kHz | 10 kW |
| Hokkaido | Muroran | JOIZ | 1125 kHz | 1 kW |
| Tōhoku | Sendai | JOHB | 1089 kHz | 10 kW |
| Tōhoku | Akita | JOUB | 774 kHz | 500 kW |
| Tōhoku | Yamagata | JOJC | 1521 kHz | 1 kW |
| Tōhoku | Morioka | JOQC | 1386 kHz | 10 kW |
| Tōhoku | Fukushima | JOFD | 1602 kHz | 1 kW |
| Tōhoku | Aomori | JOTC | 1521 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kantō-Kōshin'etsu | Tokyo | JOAB | 693 kHz | 500 kW |
| Kantō-Kōshin'etsu | Nagano | JONB | 1467 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kantō-Kōshin'etsu | Niigata | JOQB | 1593 kHz | 10 kW |
| Kantō-Kōshin'etsu | Kōfu | JOKC | 1602 kHz | 1 kW |
| Tōkai-Hokuriku | Nagoya | JOCB | 909 kHz | 10 kW |
| Tōkai-Hokuriku | Kanazawa | JOJB | 1386 kHz | 10 kW |
| Tōkai-Hokuriku | Shizuoka | JOPB | 639 kHz | 10 kW |
| Tōkai-Hokuriku | Fukui | JOFC | 1521 kHz | 1 kW |
| Tōkai-Hokuriku | Toyama | JOIC | 1035 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kansai | Osaka | JOBB | 828 kHz | 300 kW |
| Chugoku | Hiroshima | JOFB | 702 kHz | 10 kW |
| Chugoku | Okayama | JOKB | 1386 kHz | 5 kW |
| Chugoku | Matsue | JOTB | 1593 kHz | 10 kW |
| Chugoku | Tottori | JOLC | 1125 kHz | 1 kW |
| Chugoku | Yamaguchi | JOUC | 1377 kHz | 5 kW |
| Shikoku | Matsuyama | JOZB | 1512 kHz | 5 kW |
| Shikoku | Kōchi | JORB | 1152 kHz | 10 kW |
| Shikoku | Takamatsu | JOHD | 1035 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Fukuoka | JOLB | 1017 kHz | 50 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Kitakyushu | JOSB | 1602 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Kumamoto | JOGB | 873 kHz | 500 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Nagasaki | JOAC | 1377 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Kagoshima | JOHC | 1386 kHz | 10 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Miyazaki | JOMC | 1467 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Ōita | JOID | 1467 kHz | 1 kW |
| Kyushu-Okinawa | Naha | JOAD | 1125 kHz | 10 kW |