Shonan Beach FM is a radio station from Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. It mainly broadcasts Jazz music but also incorporates Hawaiian Music, R&B and Classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

 as well.

Shonan Beach FM broadcasts on 78.9 FM and it was established on December 3, 1994. Ten years after it started, it had gathered the potential of reaching around 200,000 listeners in Japan alone and many more via the internet.

Although the radio station is mostly in Japanese

Japanese language

is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

, the website offers a little information in the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

as well although this is quite minimal.

External links

• Official English version of the website
• Simulradio webpage (in Japanese)