| Alt Name: | NEWS 7 |
| Creator: | Yasushi Seito |
| Presenter: | Yoji Itoi (Monday-Thursday) Mei Soejima (Monday-Thursday) Erika Morishita (Friday-Sunday) |
| Theme Music Composer: | Toshiyuki Omori |
| Country: | Japan |
| Location: | NHK Broadcasting Center, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Camera: | Multi-camera |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes (more than 2 hours, special coverage only) |
| Channel: | NHK G NHK World Premium |
| Last Aired: | present |
| Related: | News Watch 9 |
is the early evening news program broadcast domestically on NHK General TV and internationally on NHK World Premium. It has been on the air daily since April 5, 1993, from 7:00pm to 7:30pm (JST).[1]
| Air date | Weekdays | Saturdays | Sundays | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993.04.05 - 1996.03.31 | 19:00 - 19:57（57 min.） | 19:00 - 19:27（27 min.） | 19:00 - 19:20（20 min.） | |
| 1996.04.01 - 1998.03.29 | 19:00 - 19:40（40 min.） | |||
| 1998.03.30 - 2000.03.26 | 19:00 - 19:57（57 min.） | |||
| 2000.03.27 - 2000.10.01 | 19:00 - 19:35（35 min.） | 19:00 - 19:30（30 min.） | ||
| 2000.10.02 - 2004.03.28 | 19:00 - 19:30（30 min.） | |||
| 2004.03.29 - present | 19:00 - 19:30（30 min.） | |||
| NEWS 7 chronology of newscasters and weather presenters | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Newscaster | Weather information | ||||||
| Weekdays | Weekends | Mon. - Wed. | Thu. - Fri. | Saturday | Sunday | |||
| 1993.4.5 | 1994.4.3 | Yoshiaki Kawabata/Yoko Sakurai | Miyuki Morita | Hitoshi Takada | (vacant) | |||
| 1994.4.4 | 1995.4.2 | Osamu Miyata | Koji Murayama | |||||
| 1995.4.3 | 1996.3.31 | Miyuki Morita | ||||||
| 1996.4.1 | 1997.3.30 | (vacant) | ||||||
| 1997.3.31 | 1998.3.29 | |||||||
| 1998.3.30 | 1999.3.28 | Akihiko Taguchi | Hitoshi Takada | |||||
| 1999.3.29 | 2000.3.26 | Satoshi Hatakeyama | ||||||
| 2000.3.27 | 2000.10.1 | Satoshi Hatakeyama | Norio Ishizawa | Nami Fujii | Naoko Shimazu | (vacant) | ||
| 2000.10.2 | 2002.9.29 | |||||||
| 2002.9.30 | 2003.3.30 | Eriko Arashima | ||||||
| 2003.3.31 | 2004.3.28 | Hirohide Itō | ||||||
| 2004.3.29 | 2005.3.27 | Masao Sueda | Sae Nakarai | Eriko Arashima | ||||
| 2005.3.28 | 2006.4.2 | Shiori Yamamoto | ||||||
| 2006.4.3 | 2008.3.30 | Wataru Abe | ||||||
| 2008.3.31 | 2011.4.3 | Shinichi Taketa | Masaiko Nomura | |||||
| 2011.4.4 | 2012.4.1 | Tomoko Kogo | Natsumi Terakawa | Mamiko Okamura | ||||
| 2012.4.2 | 2014.3.30 | Mamiko Okamura | Natsumi Terakawa | |||||
| 2014.3.31 | 2014.8 | Nami Morimoto | ||||||
| 2014.9 | 2014.12.23 | Natsumi Terakawa | Mamiko Okamura | |||||
| 2014.12.24 | 2015.3.29 | （vacant） | ||||||
| 2015.3.30 | 2016.4.3 | Mai Kikuchi | ||||||
| 2016.4.4 | 2017.4.2 | Kozo Takase | Ryōko Fukuoka | |||||
| 2017.4.3 | 2017.11.5 | Naoko Suzuki | Asahi Inoue | |||||
| 2017.11.6 | 2018.2.25 | Mai Kikuchi | Ran Watanabe | |||||
| 2018.2.26 | 2018.4.1 | Yūmi Hirano | ||||||
| 2018.4.2 | 2019.3.31 | Mika Kunimoto | ||||||
| 2019.4.1 | 2020.3.29 | Takeshi Takigawa | Minoru Aoi | |||||
| 2020.3.30 | 2021.3.28 | Miku Nakamura | ||||||
| 2021.3.29 | 2021.12.12 | Akari Yamagami | Kōjirō Mukasa | Kōjirō Mukasa | ||||
| 2021.12.13 | 2022.4.3 | |||||||
| 2022.4.4 | 2023.4.2 | Masatomo Takai | Ayane Hareyama | |||||
| Date | Newscaster | Weather information | ||||||
| Mon. - Thu. | Fri. | Weekends | Mon. - Wed. | Thu. - Fri. | Weekends | |||
| 2023.4.3 | 2024.3.31 | Mayuko Wakuda/Takeshi Takigawa | Erika Morishita | Ayane Hareyama | Kōjirō Mukasa | |||
| 2024.4.1 | Yōji Itoi/Mei Soejima | |||||||
The program is aired internationally on NHK World Premium (except in North America where it is aired on TV Japan instead), in its entirety in Japanese, with English second audio program (SAP) available. The program also airs in Australia on SBS WorldWatch nightly at 11pm.