Whether you are an American citizen or not, you may be interested in watching the up-coming presidential debate. It will be aired live on NHK’s BS1 channel beginning at 10 AM on Tuesday morning. BS1 is a satellite channel so if you don’t have access to satellite or cable TV (CNNj will also air it live), you will probably need to watch it streamed on the web. One problem, however, is that those of us in Japan are not always able to watch programs that are streamed in the U.S. because of geo restrictions. You can get around them using proxy servers
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/access-blocked-websites-using-proxy-servers/
but that’s a hassle if you only want to watch one debate. I spent a lot of time searching for information about streaming options for people who are not in the U.S. but, no matter what keywords I typed in, Google did not seem to understand what I was looking for. I finally figured out how to use the “verbatim” option to force Google to give me only pages with the keywords I chose but even that didn’t yield the information I was looking for. :(
If any of you happen to have information about whether or not there will be geo restrictions or how people in Japan can watch the debate on the web, please share it here.
– Kirk
http://qz.com/790110/how-to-watch-the-first-us-presidential-debate/
