JOAB-DTV Channel 26

This is not my doing, nor my work, but I wanted to give some props to the owner of The Television Close Down And Start Up Blog. He recently did two posts about the two Tokyo Digital TV stations, JOAX-DTV and JOAB-DTV. The post I am going to highlight is from JOAB-DTV, which is the NHK Educational TV Channel. I chose that post specifically because it has the Hinomaru and "Kimi ga Yo" play when television programming ceases for the night around 1 AM Tokyo time.

As I told the owner, the recording of the anthem is performed by the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. The orchestra is conducted by Akio Watanabe at the time of the recording. The recordings were released on a CD called "Kimi ga Yo" in 2006, and these include versions by him, a choir, a piano and choir and also a brass band. I am not sure when the exact recordings were made, but I know they have at least been around since 1998 when I discovered the first of the five recordings.