You can read, listen to audio and watch videos of the most recent news in simple Japanese. Hiragana readings are provided for the kanji characters.

• Articles are written using easy-to-understand sentence patterns and words.
• You can choose to add color-coding for people's names, company or place names.
• You can read the (more complicated) article actually used for the news broadcast too.

How to...

Click on (1) to listen to audio.
Click on (2) and you can remove the kanji readings.

If the news has a play icon (red frame), you can watch the original TV news broadcast.

The news articles show people's names in green, place names in brown, and company or group names in blue.
You can also remove color-coding.

You can read news from up to a year ago by clicking on ’今までのニュースを見る (View Past News)’　at the bottom right of the page.
When you click on the date you want to read, you can access articles from that week.
You can also read news from ’前の週 (Previous Week)’ or ’次の週 (Next Week)’.

Click ’NEWS WEBでよむ (Read on NEWS WEB)’ below the article to see the manuscript for the original TV news broadcast. For those of you who want to try reading some slightly more difficult Japanese, why not give yourself a challenge here?

NEWS WEB page

These contents are part of NHKオンライン (NHK ONLINE) (Introduction article).

This article was written based on information sent in to the eなInformation Station.