The Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK), private TV broadcasters and the telecom ministry have adopted a policy of bringing forward the start of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts in the nation’s non-metropolitan districts from late 2006. The three metropolitan areas surrounding Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya have agreed to start full broadcasts in December this year.
In districts other than those three areas, the broadcasters and ministry agreed to start, in fiscal 2004 in principle, the process of adjusting the antenna mechanisms of existing TV sets in households to avert interference of broadcast signals, which would otherwise occur after the start of digital broadcasts.
BBC Monitoring)