Radio Tower - neo4 #95

Radio towers are short ‘towers’ designed to house radio receivers and speakers, they were installed between 1930 and around 1943, in parks and other public spaces across Japan by the Japanese national broadcaster, Nihon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK), in order to allow the public to listen to radio broadcasts. They were initially aimed at popularising radio listening but later became an element in the home-front mobilisation that took place in the lead up to the Pacific War (1942–45). Radio towers were also installed in areas colonised or occupied by Japan.