99 years of NHK

NHK, the national broadcasting company of Japan, will be 99 years old tomorrow, August 20th. NHK stands for Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai and is known as the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in English. 

However, they are actually celebrating 100 years of broadcasting this year, as the first broadcasts were  before the corporation was established. The corporation was established on August 20th 1926 when broadcasting stations in Tokyo, Osaka, and Nagoya merged to form the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). 

Japanese companies are usually very good at celebrating 100 year anniversaries. I wonder if NHK will do anything special in 2026 to mark the anniversary. There have been a few special programmes this year to mark 100 years since Japan's first broadcast, so I will be surprised if they don't have some special events in 2026.