Terrestrial TV digitalized in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - A TV screen at a communications ministry call center in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, shows a message stating that analog broadcasting ended at noon on July 24, 2011, while operators take calls from viewers regarding the transition to digital broadcasting. Japanese broadcasters completely digitalized terrestrial TV broadcasting, ending analog transmission after more than half a century except in areas hit hard by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Sample
PDF Preview

Product Code
ILEA001161157

Registered date
2011/7/24 00:00:00

Credit
Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

Media source
2011 Kyodo News

Media size
1889 × 2412 pixel

Resolution
240 dpi

Deployment size
1.14(MB)*

Special instruction

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

Similar Images & Videos

Project under way to see inside reactors with "muons"

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Jan. 31, 2014 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, shows Haruo Miyadera, a Toshiba Corp. researcher who is engaged in a project to see into the interior of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant which suffered meltdowns due to the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 using elementary particles called "muons."

Message on Tokyo Tower to support 2011 disaster-hit area

TOKYO, Japan - A message of "Strong Bond" appears on the observation deck of Tokyo Tower on March 10, 2014, to support people in the area ravaged by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.

PM Abe visits Fukushima

TOMIOKA, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (front, 2nd from R) listens as Katsuya Endo (front, 3rd from R), mayor of Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, describes the situation in the town at JR Tomioka Station on March 24, 2013, during the prime minister's visit to the prefecture to check on the progress of reconstruction in areas damaged by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Pool photo)

PM Abe visits Fukushima

NAMIE, Japan - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) and reconstruction minister Takumi Nemoto (C) listen as Tamotsu Baba (L), mayor of Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, describes the situation in the town on March 24, 2013, during their visit to the prefecture to check on the progress of reconstruction in areas damaged by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters. (Pool photo)

PM Abe visits Fukushima

Japan premier in disaster area

MIYAKO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (front center) views disaster areas from the top of a levee in Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, on Oct. 27, 2012. The areas were hit by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami. (File photo)

Prototype "smart TV"

TOKYO, Japan - A prototype "smart TV," which can be operated by a tablet computer, is on display in Tokyo in June 2012. A Japanese government ministry is planning to propose global standards for smart TVs that integrate broadcast and Internet services, by working out basic technologies with broadcasters, telecommunications carriers and electronics manufacturers in Japan, sources familiar with the move said July 7, 2012.

ASEAN economic ministers visit quake-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A group of economic ministers from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations visit Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on April 26, 2012. They toured areas damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami as part of a four-day ''ASEAN Road Show.''

Japan launches postquake reconstruction agency

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda (L) and Tatsuo Hirano, the Cabinet minister who heads a new agency to promote the reconstruction of areas ravaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, put up a signboard bearing the name of the agency at the new entity in Tokyo on Feb. 10, 2012, as it was launched the same day. (Pool Photo)

U.S. Marines in Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Members of the U.S. Marine Corps arrive at the White Beach U.S. Naval facility in Uruma, Okinawa Prefecture, in April 2011, after taking part in Operation Tomodachi to support people affected by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan. On Feb. 6, 2012, Japan and the United States confirmed a policy to move about 4,700 U.S. Marines in Okinawa to Guam, delinking the troops' transfer from a plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps' Futenma Air Station within the prefecture, Japanese officials said.