NTS regular Japan Blues has been hosting a show since 24 January 2014. On 26 November 2017, Japan Blues was a guest on Haruomi Hosono/YMO Day; and on 28 June 2014 was a guest on Reverie. Japan Blues has been played over 60 times on NTS, first on 15 October 2014. Japan Blues's music has been featured on 61 episodes.

Japan Blues is the project of Howard Williams, an Englishman who has spent much of the past 20 years holed up in the low-ceilinged basement of 278 Portobello Road in London, working at the heart of the Honest Jon's distribution department. His Japan Blues show…