Founded in 1911, it is Japan's oldest orchestra. With approximately 130 members, it functions as both a symphony orchestra and a theater orchestra. It boasts Honorary Music Director Myung-Whun Chung, Principal Conductor Andrea Battistoni, and Special Guest Conductor Mikhail Pletnev.

It engages in high-level performance activities and various educational initiatives, making it a familiar presence to music fans nationwide through its own performances—primarily regular concerts at Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, and Suntory Hall—opera and ballet performances at venues such as the New National Theatre, and broadcast performances including NHK New Year Opera Concert, NHK Meikyoku Album (Famous Masterpieces Album), TV Asahi Untitled Concert, and TV Tokyo Tokyu Silvester Concert.

It also actively performs overseas. In recent years, this includes a world tour in March 2014, visiting six countries in Asia, Europe, and America. Furthermore, in December 2015, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea, it held the "Japan-Korea Friendship 'Ode to Joy'" concert jointly with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra in Seoul and Tokyo, under the baton of Myung-Whun Chung, attracting attention both domestically and internationally.

Since 1989, it has maintained a franchise agreement with Bunkamura Orchard Hall. Additionally, it has formed business partnerships with Bunkyo City in Tokyo, Chiba City in Chiba Prefecture, Karuizawa Town in Nagano Prefecture, Nagaoka City in Niigata Prefecture, and the Nagaoka City Art and Culture Promotion Foundation, engaging in educational and creative cultural exchange with these regions.

(As of June 2017 / 573 characters)

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