NHK Enterprises [Our Business]

International Business

Based on wealth of experiences and information in the international market, we distribute a wide range of visual content including thought-provoking documentaries, impressive dramas, popular concerts, and valuable lifestyle programs.

We distribute those selected programs of high quality across a variety of media in Japan.
International Sales is a distribution wing for NHK’s HD programs including award-winning documentaries, drama series, and animations.

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NEP has so far conducted many international co-production projects, and has produced excellent documentaries and superior contents, which are of internationally competitive level. The theme we are currently engaged in is the Giant Squids. The legendary Giant Squid (Architeuthis Dux), mysterious deep sea sharks: these previously unseen images have been captured in high definition by NHK/NEP with the aid of cutting edge equipment and guided by the latest research.
With the ever growing need for truly global broadcasting market, NHK Enterprises has established five overseas bureaus in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Bangkok.
Through these offices, we offer all kinds of production services for those who wish to film TV programs in overseas countries. Those services include arranging appointments, coordinating filming locations, providing the state-of-the-art professional equipments for full HD and 3D production, organizing events, and handling copyright issues.
NHK Cosmomedia America in New York and NHK Cosmomdeia Europe in London, our flagship subsidiaries, provide TV Japan services for Japanese speaking audiences in North America and European countries, as well as above mentioned production services.

Domestic Business

We publish and sell more than 200 NHK DVD and videocassette titles annually based on NHK’s broadcast program materials. Beside shop sales, they are also available by mail.
We develop and sell a broad selection of products based on the characters of NHK’s With Mother and animations. Besides nationwide department store sales, these are also sold at the Yaesu shop and our own Egg’s shop as well as by mail.
We produce more than 9,000 programs annually, chiefly for NHK, in diverse fields from documentary and drama to nature programs, animation and general entertainment. They include many prize-winning productions every year.
We manage studios and engage in video operations for projects as varied as Hagetaka: The Movie, explanatory videos for all sorts of exhibitions, and also video packages for both local governments and the planning, design and installation of expositions.
We produce entertaining events for both adults and children, from the Robot Contest to Tokyo Jazz and Rock-no-Gakuen, as well as political, economic, environmental, welfare and other symposia that catch the needs of the times, each as a total package.
We develop next-generation content for various digital services, including broadband, websites and mobile phones.
NEP coordinates with the NHK group and outside corporations and bodies on B to B (Business to Business) business focused chiefly on the administration and licensing of copyright for NHK TV programs like World Heritage Sites 100 and character goods such as Domo-kun, as well as the publication of DVD’s, music-related business, stage productions and international distribution. We are confident that the merger with International Media Corporation will further stimulate our overseas copyright business.