About Japan-TV

Japan-TV is an association dedicated to the appreciation of Asian film and television. Although our primary focus is in subtitling Japanese programs, we pursue Chinese and Korean projects as well.

Asian dramas differ substantially from their Western counterparts. Whereas American programs are open-ended affairs, running so long as they remain profitable, many Asian shows are intentionally designed to tell a single story from beginning to end. In Japan and Hong Kong, feature programs tend to be succinct, concentrating around a main plot with several side stories. Japanese dramas are the most concise, rarely exceeding a single twelve episode season. In this they share many of the theatrical structures familiar to Western viewers found in mini-series. Taiwanese, Chinese, and Korean dramas, on the other hand, tend to run longer than those found in Japan and Hong Kong. They are more episodic, and will in format seem more familiar to Western audiences.

We are always looking for enthusastic people to join our growing team. If you have an interest in helping us encode episodes into digital formats, translate to English, time subtitles, or provide high quality raw sources then please join our IRC channel or leave a message on our forum.

Ultimately, fansubbing is a labor of love. We hope you enjoy our releases as much as we enjoy presenting them. Thank you for supporting Japan-TV.

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