Watch and listen to Japanese media
Radiko
https://github.com/jackyzy823/rajiko for your browser to listen outside of Japan
Television in mpv or vlc
Live
TV Asahi
TV Tokyo
Fuji TV
https://fujitv4.mov3.co/hls/fujitv.m3u8
Hokkaido News 24
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/xWPD8KDHUH8
JapaNews24
NHK G
https://nhk4.mov3.co/hls/nhk.m3u8
NTV
https://ntv4.mov3.co/hls/ntv.m3u8
Tokyo MX
TBS
https://tbs3.mov3.co/hls/tbs.m3u8
https://tbs4.mov3.co/hls/tbs.m3u8
https://tbs5.mov3.co/hls/tbs.m3u8 latest
Use mpv's --no-initial-audio-sync option if you get an error about incorrect timestamps while opening a mov3 stream.
TBS's The Time and ラヴィット！ live on JST weekday mornings, usually on one of these channels, mostly -03 and -04
https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs
https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs03
https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs04
https://www.twitch.tv/akb48_taiwan_clubs05
unlisted non-stop WNL stream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73lwcdpK2aA -- 2024-02-23 to the present
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAdWzjab1B8 -- not archived, ran 2020-02-06 to 2024-02-23
AU Pay Market
https://live.check.tv/live1/index.m3u8
Check WNI caster appearance schedule at https://gg.vern.cc/wn/segment/?n=au%20PAY
Browse stream thumbnails at https://jsfiddle.net/ykh46jz5/
Recordings
Nearly all regular news and variety shows
https://9tsu.cc/
https://miomio.guru/
By default, these sites try to redirect to sketchy sites on every click. Use a browser addon like NoScript, and enable JS only from the host domain. The sites are perfectly safe and functional that way. All video links can be watched in browser or with mpv/vlc.
anon's site of links to WNI and AU Pay Market stream VODs, sortable by date or caster
https://gg.vern.cc/wn/
http://sennajlwmhtxixl2qgwlvuaongxly6flffuz4roemsabjshlnnxdbbid.onion/
FujiTV vods
https://fod.fujitv.co.jp/title/g9nu/g9nu110001/ -- 女子バレー
https://fod.fujitv.co.jp/genre/variety/H00047 -- アナウンサー
Tver
https://tver.jp/
Run mpv on any /episodes/ url like this https://tver.jp/episodes/epz5ohem6r
Episodes are available for a stated limited time. If you find one you want to keep, download it with yt-dlp. Don't forget to download Japanese subtitles when available.
Sometimes my ISP messes with the DNS caching of youtube stream servers or something and I end up getting choppy playback with long pauses on the WNL stream. The errors look like this:
[ffmpeg] tls: Error in the pull function.
[ffmpeg] tls: IO error: Connection reset by peer
(Buffering) AV: 01:55:25 / 01:55:26 (100%) A-V: -0.000 Cache: 0.0s
[ffmpeg] https: Cannot reuse HTTP connection for different host: rr2---sn-p5qddn7r.googlevideo.com:-1 != rr1---sn-p5qlsn7s.googlevideo.com/...
[ffmpeg/demuxer] hls: keepalive request failed for 'https://rr1---sn-p5qlsn7s.googlevideo.com/videoplayback/id/tzpRnl9trsE.1/itag/234/so/sgoap/gir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D140/rqh/1/hls_chunk_host/rr1---sn-p5qlsn7s.googlevideo.com/playlist_duration/900/manifest_duration/900/vprv/1/99953638/sparams/expire,ei,ip,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,live,goi,sgoap,rqh,playlist_duration,manifest_duration,vprv,playlist_host,initcwndbps,mh,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl/lsig/AM8Gb2swRgIhAMQxbLTW5LFb5jPqZD3jMcVrmf2qHU3wooQg6tsFlQCnAiEA_9G50skBR2QWsrTTzz7k3uGBWP2MmHxft' when opening url, retrying with new connection
Fix: run mpv with this option: --script-opts=ytdl_hook-use_manifests=yes. Not a single error message appears with this option. The mpv man-page says this option is set to "no" by default for performance reasons, but in this case, it's necessary.