NHK+

NHK+ (NHKプラス) was NHK's official streaming service. It provided simulcasts and already-carried programs seen on both NHK General TV and NHK Educational TV. It shut down in 2025, being replaced by NHK ONE.

==Background== In November 2010, then-NHK Chairman Shigeo Fukuchi announced his intention to begin simultaneous distribution of television programs over the Internet, and announced that he would request the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications to revise the Broadcasting Act. However, the project stalled due to several concerns. Beyond the need for significant investment in distribution server development, private broadcasters and experts—including Michisada Hirose (then chairman of the Japan Commercial Broadcasting Federation and advisor to TV Asahi) and Masayuki Shimada (president of TV Tokyo)—raised issues such as how to handle copyright and personality rights, as well as whether NHK’s license fee system should apply to households without television sets.