Hulu Japan
Hulu (known outside Japan as Hulu Japan) is a Japanese subscription streaming service service owned and operated by Nippon TV. It was launched as the Japanese counterpart of the American service with the same name in September 2011. It was acquired by Nippon TV in 2014 and branched off from its American counterpart and it offers a library of television series from other television broadcasters including NHK, TBS Television, Fuji Television, and TV Tokyo among others, as well as original programming. , Hulu Japan has a total of 2.8 million subscribers in Japan. In March 2015, Hulu Japan subscription's numbers had risen to 1 million memberships in all time record for the service. This service was the sixth highest-grossing subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service in Japan as of 2022. History On September 1, 2011, Hulu, a video distribution service operating in the United States, launched its first overseas expansion in Japan. The business in Japan was to be conducted by Hulu Japan GK, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hulu. The company signed content distribution agreements with CBS, NBC, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and The Walt Disney Company. Users were charged a monthly fee of 1,480 yen, and unlike in the