Corporate Profile

What Is TV JAPAN?

TV JAPAN is the only 24 hours a day, 7days a week Japanese language broadcasting service in the United States and Canada. TV JAPAN provides a variety of dramas and movies currently popular in Japan, in addition to daily news and programs sent from Japan via satellites over the Pacific Ocean.
This premium pay network is delivered directly to viewers’ homes by DISH Network satellites and affiliated cable systems and IPTV via Telephone companies.
TV JAPAN is available in 300 hotels throughout the United States (nearly 135,000 guest rooms), and on JAL, ANA, and American Airlines with their in-flight TV news and programming for trans-Pacific routes. TV JAPAN viewers have been increasing steadily since our network launched in 1991, and currently total over 67 thousand household subscribers. Recent activities have included the introduction of many programs that were taped and produced for HDTV.

Capital

$16.1 Million

Major Shareholders

NHK Enterprises, Inc.
Media International Corporation
ITOCHU Corporation
Pacific Investment Holdings Corporation (Japan Airlines International Co., Ltd.)
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.

Officers

President & CEO : Kazuaki Takada
Executive Vice President & COO: Hideki Akiyama
Senior Vice President: Yoshio Hoshide
Senior Vice President: Kohei Nakae
Senior Vice President: Akihito Kunimatsu
Secretary: Yuichi Tatsumi

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