All employees of NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc., Provider of TV JAPAN, would like to express our sincere sympathy for the victims and their family of the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster in Japan.

We would like to provide a $25,000 donation to the Japan Society’ Earthquake Relief Fund to support the various relief efforts in Japan.  We sincerely hope for the eventual and steady recovery of the victims from this crisis.

July 11, 2010, “Bridge U.S.A. summer festival” took place at Torrance Cultural Arts Center in Torrance, CA. TV JAPAN filmed and aired the special programs of the festival only for the event site. In addition to that, TV JAPAN held “TV JAPAN quiz show” at the booth. We had great time with all attendees and audience at our booth.

The “Bridge U.S.A summer festival” reached 15^th anniversary this year. This one of the biggest Japanese events in the US has more than 10,000 visitors every year. At the event site, there were many booths and vendors which are popular in the traditional Japanese festival bringing the real feeling of Japan.

TV JAPAN prepared two big monitors on the event site and aired interviews with visitors and the quiz show during the entire event, including live coverage from the TV JAPAN booth. It was a great opportunity for us to have the visitors experience and learn how TV programs are filmed and aired.

The festival of America’s cable television industry, “The Cable Show 2010” (NCTA), was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from May 11-13, and TV Japan participated as an exhibitor.  At this show over 300 cable and broadcast related companies gather together, and it is the largest event in the industry with an estimated over 12,000 visitors.

The talk of NCTA 2010 was the prototype version of the application introduced by Comcast that uses the iPad as a remote control.  This application is equipped with an electronic program guide and a program search function, and via the iPad’s wireless LAN function television channels can be changed over the Internet.  Because you can use a software keyboard with the iPad, input is simpler than with a regular television remote control.  With this technology, interactive services such as premium video subscriptions and popularity votes during live broadcasts can now be easily offered.

But as expected, the technology that most attracted the attention of participants’ was 3D.  Because it has been decided that starting this year several channels will begin to broadcast in 3D, the booths of companies related to 3D devices received much foot traffic.  At the TV Japan exhibition booth, along with traditional Japanese language television broadcasting, we also introduced our HD3D content production business as a fresh business area from the new company NHK Cosmomedia America, Inc.