{"id":66678,"date":"2026-07-29T01:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=66678"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T05:55:41","slug":"japan-times-the-uncertain-future-of-shiokazes-shortwave-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/japan-times-the-uncertain-future-of-shiokazes-shortwave-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Times: The Uncertain Future of Shiokaze\u2019s Shortwave Broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Tracy Wood, who shares the following post from The Japan Times. The article highlights growing concerns over the future of Shiokaze (“Sea Breeze”), the shortwave radio service that broadcasts messages of hope and information to Japanese citizens believed to have been abducted by North Korea. As aging shortwave transmission facilities become increasingly difficult to maintain, supporters worry that one of the few remaining lifelines to the isolated nation could fall silent. Read the full article here: https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2026\/07\/27\/japan\/north-korea-abductees-radio\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Tracy Wood, who shares the following post from The Japan Times. The article highlights growing concerns over the future of Shiokaze (“Sea Breeze”), the shortwave radio service that broadcasts messages of hope and information to Japanese citizens believed to have been abducted by North Korea. As aging shortwave transmission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[11157,10411],"class_list":["post-66678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-japan-times","tag-shiokaze-shortwave-radio-service"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hls","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58621,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/shiokaze-shortwave-radio-service-faces-crisis\/","url_meta":{"origin":66678,"position":0},"title":"Shiokaze Shortwave Radio Service Faces Crisis","author":"Thomas","date":"January 3, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Iurescia, who shares the following news from The Japan News: Shortwave Radio for Japanese Abductees Faces Crisis Tokyo, Dec. 31 (Jiji Press)\u2014The Shiokaze shortwave radio service for Japanese nationals abducted to North Korea faces a crisis because it will be unable to counter\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/de321dial1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/de321dial1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/de321dial1.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/de321dial1.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3775,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/north-korea-is-testing-digital-shortwave-broadcasting-via-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":66678,"position":1},"title":"North Korea is testing digital shortwave broadcasting via DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"June 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As Vatican Radio pulls out of DRM, North Korea moves in. What a strange and shifting international broadcasting landscape: (Source: North Korea Tech) North Korea appears to be testing digital radio broadcasting. Hiroshi Inoue, a radio monitor in Japan, received on Wednesday the country\u2019s international radio service, Voice of Korea,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/NorthKoreaMap.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6044,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/nhk-radio-japan-to-end-shortwave-service-to-north-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":66678,"position":2},"title":"NHK Radio Japan to end shortwave service to North America","author":"Thomas","date":"March 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I've heard from several sources that NHK Radio Japan will end shortwave service to North America on March 31st, 2013. \u00a0No doubt, this is due to the April closing of the\u00a0Montsin\u00e9ry site in French\u00a0Guiana. NHK is one of the few \"big\" broadcasters that still targeted North America. In truth, I'm\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"NHK-Radio-Japan","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/NHK-Radio-Japan.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":28040,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/north-korea-now-broadcasting-in-drm\/","url_meta":{"origin":66678,"position":3},"title":"North Korea now broadcasting in DRM","author":"Thomas","date":"September 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, who writes: A message to contacts in North Asia (Japan \/ Korea etc)... North Korea is currently (right now 1430UTC) broadcasting in DRM format on 3560KHz. Listening to remote receivers in Japan I can see the signal is very strong in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "DRM"","block_context":{"text":"DRM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/drm\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DPRK-DRM.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DPRK-DRM.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DPRK-DRM.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/DPRK-DRM.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6267,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/shortwave-radio-recordings-nhk-radio-japan\/","url_meta":{"origin":66678,"position":4},"title":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: NHK Radio Japan","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For you listening pleasure: thirty minutes of NHK Radio Japan's English language service. This broadcast was recorded an hour ago, at 10:00 UTC on 9,625 (April\u00a019, 2013). \u00a0Though NHK has dropped their English language services into North America, you can still receive their broadcasts targeting other regions quite easily. 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A BBC insider said the British government has given final approval to the public broadcaster's plan to broadcast news to North Korea and has even earmarked a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Broadcasters"","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"(Image source: BBC)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66679,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66678\/revisions\/66679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}