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Monday, January 01, 2024
Shortwave Radio for Japanese Abductees Faces Crisis
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Shiokaze updates broadcast schedule
For anyone who follows the broadcasts from Shiokaze, Hiroshi's blog at http://hiroshi.mediacat-blog.jp/
mentions a new schedule effective 14 September 2023:
All times UTC
1300-1400 on 5965 and 6040 kHz
1405-1435 on 5935 and 7295
kHz
1600-1700 on 5920 and 6070
kHz
1705-1805 on 6090 and 7320 kHz
Shiokaze (Sea Breeze) (clandestine station) broadcasts to North Korea and is operated by the
independent investigating organization "Investigation Commission on
Missing Japanese Probably Related to North Korea", regarding persons
believed to have been abducted by North Korea prior to 1983. All broadcasts are
from Yamata in Japan (300 kW).
As listed in "Broadcasts in English" they usually have an English program at 1300-1400 and 1600-1700 on Wednesdays (otherwise they are in Korean and Japanese)
(BDXC/Tony)
Monday, May 16, 2022
Shiokaze updates broadcast schedule
Friday, October 31, 2008
More News on Shiokaze

Gayle VH
Recently I have been corresponding with Shiokaze (via COMJAN), providing information about their transmission on 6020 (including an emailed audio clip of their reception) and the North Korean jamming that recently appeared there. Went on to suggest perhaps it was time to change to a new frequency again. Once I noticed they had in fact changed frequency, I inquired about it, as I couldn't immediately find them. Received this response:
Thank you very much for your information. We have changed the frequency 26th October because there was strong jamming from North Korea. Now we don't disclose the frequency number because of avoiding jamming from North Korea. So we would like ask you to search our frequency near 6020 khz. Maybe you can easily touch with new frequency. Sincerely yours, Sadaki MANABE (COMJAN Vice representative). (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Oct 31)
- - - - - Ron posted:
UTC time *sign-off
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Clandestine, Shiokaze observed on new frequency
This morning's email brings news that Shiokaze is broadcasting on a new frequency, as indicated below by contributor Ron Howard.Gayle VH
All times UTC *sing-on
Clandestine, Shiokaze - Sea Breeze via Yamata 6015 kHz - Japan (new frequency - temporary move from 6020?), *1400, July 21, in Japanese. Is this their new anti-jamming alternative frequency (ex: 6005) or a new primary frequency (ex: 6020)? Am glad they did not return to 6005, due to the interference caused there by Echo of Hope on 6003. Before 1400 heard weak Asian station (assume PBS Xinjiang), ToH pips and assume it was CNR-8 that was totally covered by Shiokaze signing on after the pips. Am grateful to Dan Sheedy for this tip. He first heard them here on July 16. (Ron Howard, CA/Etón E1/Cumbre DX)
Friday, April 04, 2008
Shiokaze - A08 Multilingual schedules
Effective: 30 March - 26 October 2008
All times UTC
Japanese, Korean, English and Chinese
1400-1430 6020 kHz
2030-2100 6045 kHz
Furusato no Kaze in Japanese
1430-1500 11775 kHz via CVC-Darwin
1600-1630 9780 kHz via Taiwan
Nippon no Kaze/Ilbon-e Baram in Korean
1500-1530 11690 kHz via CVC-Darwin
1700-1730 9820 kHz via Taiwan
(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, NDXC-HQ Mar 28)
(Source: BC-DX #854, wb, Germany)
Thursday, March 06, 2008
BBC comments on broadcast to abductees in North Korea
JSR Shiokaze radio is broadcast once in the morning, once in the evening for 30 minutes. There are editions in Japanese, Korean, English and Chinese, rotated on a regular basis. The BBC’s Chris Hogg meets the Japanese who still pursue the truth about their loved ones.
(Source: R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
Related story: Japan's radio pleas to North Korea
North Korea's abduction of Japanese citizens in the 1970s and 1980s continues to sour relations between them. The BBC's Chris Hogg meets the Japanese who still pursue the truth about their loved ones.
continued story from BBC News:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7275598.stm
