NHK News 7

NHK News 7 (Japanese: NHKニュース7; also known and stylized in English as NEWS 7) is the early evening news program broadcast domestically on NHK General TV and internationally on NHK World Premium. It has been on the air daily since April 5, 1993, from 7:00pm to 7:30pm (JST).^[1]

NHK News 7
Also known as	NEWS 7
Created by	Yasushi Seito
Presented by	Yoji Itoi (Monday-Thursday) Mei Soejima (Monday-Thursday) Erika Morishita (Friday-Sunday)
Theme music composer	Toshiyuki Omori
Country of origin	Japan
Original languages	Japanese (Main audio) English (on audio subchannel)
Production
Production locations	NHK Broadcasting Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	30 minutes (more than 2 hours, special coverage only)
Original release
Network	NHK G NHK World Premium NHK World-Japan
Release	April 5, 1993 (1993-04-05) – present
Related
News Watch 9

History

It started broadcasting in its current form on April 5, 1993. For about 20 years, the main news service on NHK was at 9pm, but the corporation decided to move the main news to 7pm as part of reforms.^[2][3]

Chronology

Air date	Weekdays	Saturdays	Sundays
1993.04.05 - 1996.03.31	19:00 - 19:57（57 min.）	19:00 - 19:27（27 min.）	19:00 - 19:20（20 min.）
1996.04.01 - 1998.03.29	19:00 - 19:40（40 min.）
1998.03.30 - 2000.03.26	19:00 - 19:57（57 min.）
2000.03.27 - 2000.10.01	19:00 - 19:35（35 min.）	19:00 - 19:30（30 min.）
2000.10.02 - 2004.03.28	19:00 - 19:30（30 min.）
2004.03.29 - present	19:00 - 19:30（30 min.）

Anchors

NEWS 7 chronology of newscasters and weather presenters
Date		Newscaster			Weather information
		Weekdays		Weekends	Mon. - Wed.	Thu. - Fri.	Saturday	Sunday
1993.4.5	1994.4.3	Yoshiaki Kawabata/Yoko Sakurai		Miyuki Morita	Hitoshi Takada		(vacant)
1994.4.4	1995.4.2			Osamu Miyata	Koji Murayama
1995.4.3	1996.3.31	Miyuki Morita
1996.4.1	1997.3.30				(vacant)
1997.3.31	1998.3.29
1998.3.30	1999.3.28				Akihiko Taguchi	Hitoshi Takada
1999.3.29	2000.3.26			Satoshi Hatakeyama
2000.3.27	2000.10.1	Satoshi Hatakeyama		Norio Ishizawa	Nami Fujii	Naoko Shimazu		(vacant)
2000.10.2	2002.9.29
2002.9.30	2003.3.30					Eriko Arashima
2003.3.31	2004.3.28			Hirohide Itō
2004.3.29	2005.3.27			Masao Sueda	Sae Nakarai		Eriko Arashima
2005.3.28	2006.4.2						Shiori Yamamoto
2006.4.3	2008.3.30	Wataru Abe
2008.3.31	2011.4.3	Shinichi Taketa		Masaiko Nomura
2011.4.4	2012.4.1			Tomoko Kogo	Natsumi Terakawa		Mamiko Okamura
2012.4.2	2014.3.30				Mamiko Okamura		Natsumi Terakawa
2014.3.31	2014.8			Nami Morimoto
2014.9	2014.12.23				Natsumi Terakawa		Mamiko Okamura
2014.12.24	2015.3.29						（vacant）
2015.3.30	2016.4.3						Mai Kikuchi
2016.4.4	2017.4.2			Kozo Takase	Ryōko Fukuoka
2017.4.3	2017.11.5	Naoko Suzuki		Asahi Inoue
2017.11.6	2018.2.25				Mai Kikuchi		Ran Watanabe
2018.2.26	2018.4.1				Yūmi Hirano
2018.4.2	2019.3.31						Mika Kunimoto
2019.4.1	2020.3.29	Takeshi Takigawa		Minoru Aoi
2020.3.30	2021.3.28						Miku Nakamura
2021.3.29	2021.12.12				Akari Yamagami	Kōjirō Mukasa	Kōjirō Mukasa
2021.12.13	2022.4.3
2022.4.4	2023.4.2			Masatomo Takai	Ayane Hareyama
Date		Newscaster			Weather information
		Mon. - Thu.	Fri.	Weekends	Mon. - Wed.	Thu. - Fri.	Weekends
2023.4.3	2024.3.31	Mayuko Wakuda/Takeshi Takigawa	Erika Morishita		Ayane Hareyama		Kōjirō Mukasa
2024.4.1		Yōji Itoi/Mei Soejima

International broadcast

The program is aired internationally on NHK World Premium (except in North America where it is aired on TV Japan instead), in its entirety in Japanese, with English second audio program (SAP) available and NHK World-Japan in English audio. The program also airs in Australia on SBS WorldWatch nightly at 11pm (AEST/AEDT).