NHK WORLD-JAPAN YouTube Stats

@nhkworldjapan · Travel & Outdoors · Updated Nov 11, 2026

NHK WORLD-JAPAN channel overview

NHK WORLD-JAPAN (@nhkworldjapan) is a YouTube channel in the Travel & Outdoors niche created in 2007. It has 3.6M subscribers and 114M total views across 1.8K videos, an average of 62K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 36K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 18K views. Over the last 12 months, NHK WORLD-JAPAN published 30 videos, and 6 of them (20%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does NHK WORLD-JAPAN make?

Returbe estimates NHK WORLD-JAPAN's YouTube ad revenue at $3.5K – $12K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3 to $10, typically $5.5, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $5.5K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

NHK WORLD-JAPAN publishes about 32.6 videos a month. Based on its last 30 uploads, its most common upload day is Tuesday (33% of uploads), usually around 23:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 10, 2026.

NHK WORLD-JAPAN's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are NHK WORLD-JAPAN's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• GRAND SUMO: Day 1 of the November 2026 Tournament - GRAND SUMO Highlights205K views · Nov 9, 202611.4× typical views
• Quake leaves Japan pondering 'the big one'ーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS200K views · Nov 9, 202611.1× typical views
• Eggs - Japanology Plus115K views · Nov 5, 20266.4× typical views
• US midterm results could spell trouble for South KoreaーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS99K views · Nov 5, 20265.5× typical views
• GRAND SUMO: Day 2 of the November 2026 Tournament - GRAND SUMO Highlights84K views · Nov 10, 20264.7× typical views
• Beijing’s booming trade backlashーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS57K views · Nov 8, 20263.2× typical views
• Kiriboshi Daikon - Trails to Oishii Tokyo42K views · Nov 6, 20262.3× typical views
• Horn of Africa tension: Ethiopia′s Tigray crisisーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS37K views · Nov 6, 20262.1× typical views

Latest videos

9 of NHK WORLD-JAPAN's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Hiroshima A-bomb victim's remains finally come homeーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS7.2K views · Nov 10, 20260.4× typical views
• Anti-scam conference underway in ThailandーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS4.3K views · Nov 10, 20260.2× typical views
• Battle against AI-powered impersonationーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS6.4K views · Nov 10, 20260.4× typical views
• Exclusive: As term ends, Guterres reflects on UN's modern roleーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS3.9K views · Nov 10, 20260.2× typical views
• Kyoto temples and shrines go cashlessーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS9.1K views · Nov 10, 20260.5× typical views
• GRAND SUMO: Day 2 of the November 2026 Tournament - GRAND SUMO Highlights84K views · Nov 10, 20264.7× typical views
• Bout of the Day: Day 2 of the November 2026 GRAND SUMO Tournament - NHK WORLD-JAPAN4.3K views · Nov 10, 2026
• Preserving a century of care in Japanese port cityーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS6.9K views · Nov 10, 20260.4× typical views
• The force behind Japanese swordsーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS15K views · Nov 10, 20260.9× typical views
• Australian school revives Indigenous languageーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS5.7K views · Nov 10, 20260.3× typical views

The Travel & Outdoors niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 4.3K videos from 852 channels in this niche. 13% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 15K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3 to $10.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Ngoc Linh (335K subs, best video 148.7×), France 3 Bretagne (141K subs, best video 83.1×), kohstan kal (5.7K subs, best video 169.1×), Sharon Dawson (11K subs, best video 131.2×), Greenbrier Bushcraft (41K subs, best video 124.7×), Impossible Horizons (6.3K subs, best video 96.6×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with NHK WORLD-JAPAN or YouTube.