NHK, known as Tokyo Broadcasting Station at the time, started radio broadcasting in March, 1925. Following World WarⅡ, the station changed its name to Japan Broadcasting Corporation, and started television broadcasting in 1953. The NHK Archives is a collection of programs, scripts, program documents, video footage used for program production, and database storing mechanisms kept in a storage facility in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, that was compiled over approximately 90 years of radio and 60 years of television broadcasting.