The short answer
NHK WORLD, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
1.0 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 2.2). Over the last twelve months NHK WORLD sent 182 notifications, pushing on 84 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 18:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-04-20, with 16 pushes.
The daily clock
All of NHK WORLD's pushes from the last twelve months, on Japan's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 18:00.
NHK WORLDpeak 18:0017.6% of NHK WORLD's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the timing guides.
The week
An average weekday carries 2.3 NHK WORLD pushes and a weekend day 1.5: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How NHK WORLD writes a push
| Habit | NHK WORLD | Japan median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 13 | 13 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 144 | 66 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Phrased as a question | 0.0% | 1.6% |
Aggregates over every NHK WORLD notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other Japan apps
Every Japan news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. NHK WORLD is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Nikkei Asia | 1,639 | 5 | 12:00 |
| 2 |  Japan Times | 368 | 4.0 | 07:00 |
| 3 | NHK WORLD | 182 | 1.0 | 18:00 |
Method
AO.news runs a fleet of phones with hundreds of news apps installed and every notification switched on; each push is recorded the moment it lands. This page counts the 182 notifications NHK WORLD sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Asia/Tokyo local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added to our phones mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach our devices. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.