I used to have Inter FM on in the car, but it's all foreign DJs who speak Japanese and say one or two phrases in English once in a while. And then they would have 30 seconds of news at the top of the hour in English. The traffic information is all in Japanese at machine gun speed. The American DJ says in English, "Drivers, be careful out there and here's the latest traffic with Mayumi......." and off she goes. Inter FM broadcasts on 76.5 in Yokohama.

AFN is mostly canned programming from the US but during the daytime they have their own (awful) DJs. I wonder if AFN had special coverage after the big quake? There is nothing useful about this station. During my typical drive time around 7 pm they have this awful anti-Rush Limbaugh talk radio guy then followed by Rush himself. Since Obama is commander-in-chief, I guess they give the lefty the prime spot. A funny thing about 810 is that like halfway between Tokyo and Nagano a quite strong Russian station tunes in for a short spell of time just as you are losing the AFN signal.

During a real crisis like March 11 then the NHK international feed (via internet) is useful. They had constant coverage of the aftermath and the nuclear crisis.