Driving Innovation in Content Creation
NHK Enterprises produces, develops, and sells media content, including production of NHK programs and other visual content, event planning and production, program and character licensing, and sales of products such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs. We can respond to a wide range of content-related needs.
Worldwide Sales of NHK Programs
We sell NHK programs of various genres, ranging from dramas and documentaries to animation, to overseas broadcasters and distributors. We market a diverse range of content to various media outlets around the world, including selling the program format for programs like The New Anatomy Show.
Program Acquisitions
With long and extensive experience in the international market, NHK Enterprises acquires the best content from around the world for various Japanese media, including NHK. The genres we deal with range from drama, documentary, film to classical and popular music, performing arts and animation.
Productions, Co-Productions
We are involved in a diverse range of international undertakings, including co-producing programs and other visual content with leading international broadcasters and production companies as well as holding visual content-related events.
Domestic Services
Media Production
We produce TV and radio programs for NHK, ranging from documentaries and dramas to anime and entertainment. We are also involved in planning and production of large-display visuals using 8K, 4K and other high-definition video and projection mapping, production of theatrical films, and much more.
Event Planning and Production
From major events such as the Tokyo Jazz Festival, Robocon, National Cultural Festivals and Expos, to symposia and forums on themes such as social welfare and the environment, we handle all aspects of production—including planning, direction and management—for a wide variety of events.
Licensing
We handle copyright management and licensing for NHK programs and their characters. We also sell NHK programs to cable and satellite broadcasters and programs purchased from overseas, and supply broadcast footage stored in NHK Archives.
Merchandise
We produce and sell DVDs and Blu-ray discs of NHK broadcast programs and footage stored in NHK Archives. We also sell merchandise for Domo-kun and other characters generated from NHK programming.
Digital Content Production
In addition to planning and production of webpages and digital signage, operation of mobile websites, and planning and production of data broadcasts and interactive programs, we produce wide-ranging content such as the top pages for NHK’s Hybridcast next-generation broadcasting service.
More Information…
For details of our services in Japan, please see our Japanese website.
About Us
| Name | NHK Enterprises, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Represented by | President and CEO Hisashi Anzai |
| Founded on | 1 April 2005 |
| No. of employees | 565 (as of 1st July, 2019) |
| Company Structure | Company Structure |
| Capital fund | 1.25 billion yen |
| Amount of sales | 59.1 billion yen (2018 end of fiscal year) |
Message from Mr. Hisashi Anzai,
President and CEO
From Shibuya to the World
The NHK Group: Forging the Future
As a member of the NHK Groups, NHK Enterprises, Inc. (NEP) takes pride in filling over 13,000 slots on NHK’s programming timetable, running the whole gamut from dramas, idol-featuring entertainments, traditional performance arts and international debates to animated cartoons, with its production capabilities generating such successful shows as “Don’t Sleep Through Life!”, “Go! Kaneo-kun”, “Nature Wonder Land” in addition to other highly evaluated historical dramas, Art-Festival-Grand-Prize-winning serial dramas, etc.
Our line of business covers not only program production but also distribution of DVDs, digital exploitation of visual content, developing and planning of events and symposiums, sales and purchases, both domestic and international, of content, as well as exploitation of character licenses.
We NEP aim to be constantly ready and available as a partner close at hand to all sectors.
Citing recent examples, an inquiry handled at our customer service center has consequently lead to our own involvement in the production of visual material on the Petra ruins in Jordan for exhibition use at a museum. At the time of the Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake, we were given the chance to help bring back tourists as part of the damage recovery campaign by employing our own social networking expertise and by involving celebrities and influential V-tubers as well as volunteers from the local communities. At SXSW 2019, in the meantime, a festival of cutting-edge technology held in Texas, the VR experience displayed at our booth that three-dimensionally reproduced the city of Shibuya as it was back in 1964 resulted in drawing the attention of several leading companies appearing to be avidly interested to develop something new in collaboration with us.
We are open at all times to any such fortuitous encounters.
Our forte is that we are always prepared to work shoulder to shoulder with talented partners both at home and abroad. In addition to NHK’s professional certainty and firmness rubbing off on us, we are capable of offering “fun” content and services with a hoard of unfettered minds and methods of presentation adopting the up-to-date design and technology.
Please feel free to call upon us at any time for any type of fusion.
Executives
| President and CEO | Hisashi ANZAI |
|---|---|
| Executive Managing Director | Mikio SATOH |
| Senior Managing Directors | Yoshitaka YANAGIDA |
| Managing Directors | Yuichi SUWA Atsushi OSHIDA Mitsunobu OZAKI Kuni KATO Hideo IIDA Hidenori KOUCHI Yasuhiro KAN |
| Non-executive Director | Haruo KAKEGAWA
Kouki MORINAGA Hidetoshi YUKAWA Shoji ONOGI Takaaki SATOH |
| Outside Auditor | Hiromi KIMURA |
| Auditor | Satoshi ATSUMI |
| Outside Non-executive Auditor | Yuka TSUTSUMI |
| Auditor | Haruhiko MINENO |
Corporate History
| 1985 16 January | Establishment of “NHK Enterprises, Inc.” |
|---|---|
| 1986 27 January | Establishment of “SOGOVISION INC.” |
| 1989 16 June | Establishment of “NHK Creative, Inc.” |
| 1989 28 June | Establishment of “NHK Software, Inc.” |
| 1990 5 July | Establishment of “Media International Corporation” |
| 1994 | Establishment of “NHK Enterprises America, Inc.” and “NHK Enterprises Europe Ltd.” |
| 1995 1 April | Establishment of “NHK Enterprises 21, Inc.” by the merger of “NHK Enterprises, Inc.” and “NHK Creative, Inc.” |
| 2005 1 April | Establishment of “NHK Enterprises, Inc.” by the merger of “NHK Software, Inc.” and “NHK Enterprises 21, Inc.” |
| 2010 1 April | Merger between “NHK Enterprises, Inc.” and “Media International Corporation” |
| 2010 1 April | Establishment of “NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.” by the merger of “NHK Enterprises America, Inc.” and “Japan Network Group, Inc. (JNG)” |
| 2010 1 April | Establishment of “NHK Cosmomedia Europe Ltd.” by the merger between “NHK Enterprises Europe Ltd.” And “Japan Satellite TV (JSTV)” |
| 2013 1 July | Merger between “NHK Enterprises, Inc.” and “SOGOVISION INC.” |
Main Shareholders
| NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) |
| NHK Technologies, Inc. |
| Japan Broadcast Publishing Co., Ltd. |
| NHK Global Media Services,Inc. |
| NHK ART, Inc. |
| NHK EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION |
| NHK PROMOTIONS Co., Ltd. |
| Mizuho Bank, Ltd. |
| NHK CULTURE CENTER, Inc. |