NHK WORLD User Reviews

NHK WORLD-JAPAN
NHK WORLD-JAPAN
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)

Customer Experience

Positive experience51.8% of reviews
Neutral14.9% of reviews
Negative experience33.3% of reviews

~ Based on 556 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is NHK WORLD Safe?

NHK WORLD-JAPAN appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for NHK WORLD is 76/100.

This assessment is based on 507 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.8/5.

Safety Analysis

66.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
11.6% of ratings suggest some concerns
21.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 507 App Store ratings for NHK WORLD.

Is NHK WORLD Legit?

NHK WORLD-JAPAN appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for NHK WORLD is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Treatment of foreigners

Have been to Tokyo for 9 days and hokkaido also 9 days we were treated with great respect I met mayor and council Obihiro I went to grade school
The children wanted to meet an American my daughter-in-law is from Obihiro I love Japan

Love NHK World programs

I wish I was able to cast the programs to my TV. Watching on my mobile device is not optimal

Cast

I hope the app allow to cast on screen like the previous version.

Suggestion

Can Japanese be offered as one of the languages?

Love the App!!!

NHK has been in my life for almost a decade! Originally I’d see the channel on cable. I have been using this app for many years and always find something interesting or new. We used to be able to cast/stream the videos to a TV so I could watch it at home, but that option was recently taken away. Please add casting/streaming back!! I actually use the app less now that I can only watch on my phone.
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Anti foreigner sentiment - nonstop

Almost every single article/story is about how much Japanese and NHK dislike foreigners. It seems very odd considering the whole app is targeting foreigners. Is your purpose to get us to download your app so we can feel bad and feel afraid and leave Japan? Never to return?

One article will be about how foreigner workers are not welcome and how much trouble we cause. The next story will be about Japanese employment and worker crisis due to lack of skilled workers and low rates of birth. Do you not see the hypocrisy?

In my opinion, NHK are acting as mouthpiece for a very dark side of Japan which is not reality. The truth is Japanese people are overwhelmingly lovely and this negativity demonstrated by NHK is not representative of real life in Japan.
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NHK Brasil

Toshio

Great when it worked for me

It’s working again. Must have been a glitch of some kind. I love NHK World Japan.
Great Shows. Beautiful Country. 👍🏼 from Canada

일본어 공부하게 그냥 일본어로 보게 해주세요

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Very disappointing

This app is currently very outdated from the latest iOS 26. Still no ‘dark mode’ feature that was introduced many years ago!!! The overall UI also falling behind, with no latest ‘slide and magnified’ style navigation bar at the bottom to match the latest iOS 26 Liquid Glass aesthetics. Do you even care?!
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good but

why no Japanese?

No Japanese language

The app is available in 19 languages but Japanese is not one of them? This should be an easy fix as this doesn’t require translation at all…

Why can’t it be aired in Japanese?

I would love to listen to nightly news in Japanese. As it is I will probably only come and use it when major stories crop up.

Removed casting functionality in update 9.0.1

I really used to love the app and all the programming it provided, but since they removed built-in casting functionality, the app has become pretty much useless. By removing that feature in a video player app, they pretty much removed most of the value from the entire app… unless you like looking at stuff on a tiny screen constantly. Wildly stupid move.
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No More Japanology+

Japanology+ and Begin Japanology are the best products produced by NHK World-Japan. They’ve all been scrubbed from YouTube and the NHK World website. Now you can only find climate change alarmism propaganda… the opposite of what NHK world once was.

Livestream

Die Livestream Übertragung ist bescheiden.

Dark mode please.

Dark mode please.

NHK NEWSLINEがアプリから聞けなくなってる

2〜3年前までこのアプリを使っていました。主に日本のNEWSLINEを英語で聴ける点が良かったのですが、久々にアプリをダウンロードしたとことろ、アプリ内から無くなっている様子。コメントを確認してみると、おそらく、インターネットブラウザに遷移して、そこで見る必要があるようで、UXとしてはとても残念でした。私にはアプリは不要でした。

Can no longer set program alerts?!?

This app has gotten so bad with recent updates. Can no long play replayed videos from Luve tab, you must search for them in the Shows tab. Just very very poor changes lately.

Can’t set alarm for when a show starts in latest versions (>9.0.0). UPDATE: I have been informed by NHK that “alarms have been discontinued”… what a great way to kill viewership. And now play button/icon is missing from shows, so now you cannot tell if a show is first run or a repeat. Or if ahows are available to watch VOD. You have to explicitly look and search in Shows to see what’s available. Their logic for this dumbfounds me. I suspect those wanting casting are also out of luck and also suspect these changes are leading up to the app being discontinued in the near future, roku app is now gone. Very, very strange changes indeed. NHK should just use YouTube for all their live and archived content (not just the news) and forgo the app.
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Update the app!

Please update the app icon and overall UI within the app, particularly navigation bar at the bottom, to match the latest Liquid Glass aesthetics on iOS 26.