First female radio announcer Akiko Midorikawa 1926; WikiMedia Commons.
Modeled after the BBC, the Japanese NHK Radio Network began broadcasting in 1926.
In 1935, NHK began an overseas service known as Radio Japan.
Along with all public news agencies, NHK was nationalized in 1941. During the war, Radio Japan broadcast in 23 different languages.
Interesting. I didn’t know about radio in Japan, and also that it was modeled after the BBC.