Apologies if this is old news. Couldn't see anything with a quick search.

I was channel-hopping at the weekend and I noticed that NHK World is now broadcasting on Sky channel 516 (UK). It's broadcasting mostly in English (boo!) - and with some really bad dubbing and presenters on some of the shows (which sometimes look like they were filmed 10-20 years ago - despite focusing about up-to-date current affairs) - but there is some hope (yay!) as the news plays out first in English and then repeats in Japanese (10 minutes each - once every hour).

A daily fix of the news in Japanese should help with the immersion environment if you have access to the service.

I am rather disappointed that most of it is in English, especially with the dubbing being pretty bad at times. But I have been trying to watch the news now and again. I think there's a long, 30 minute news show in Japanese as well.

A number of the programs have a 'bilingual/２ヶ国語' logo at the top, but does that work on Sky? I've looked around the settings, but don't see how you can change it. I think someone said that it doesn't support bilingual broadcasts, but looking through the options turns up a language setting for other languages (not Japanese, though).

I read somewhere that the multilingual function isn't available on sky. It's pretty frustrating.

The programs aren't too bad, I have been watching for a few weeks now. "Your Japanese Kitchen" has interesting recipes (crab croquettes!). I'll check to see if the bilingual limitation is on the Sky box or on the broadcast itself.

EDIT: a quick check on lyngsat shows only one audio PID, but it is referenced as being Japanese(?)