[Lifestyle] Telus to broadcast English-language news and lifestyle channel NHK World-Japan in Western Canada

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English-language viewers now have a new option for viewing an international news and lifestyle channel, this time from an Asian perspective.NHK World-Japan announced today (December 😎 that Vancouver-based Telus has added the 24-hour English-language international TV channel to its lineup.Telus is the first Canadian operator to carry the Japan-based broadcaster. Telus will provide NHK World-Japan to viewers in Western Canada for free for three months. and the channel will be included in the international news package on Telus’ Optik TV.Japan International Broadcasting president and CEO Shiromoto Masaru called it “an important milestone” for NHK World-Japan, in a news release from Tokyo.NHK-World Japan is the only public broadcaster in Japan and is the largest domestic and international TV network in Japan.It offers hourly live international news from Japan and overseas, and programs on current affairs, lifestyle, culture, food, travel, sports, technology, science, and history.