Japanese drama series seem to have disappeared from Singapore channels. They're the best of the east, at times even surpassing western standards. Their acting and production are naturally classy, unlike the Koreans who try too hard to pretend to be classy and the worst of all, Taiwanese who're clueless and waste everybody's time for decades since the invention of television. Even Singapore production standard fares better than them. Taiwan have better acting talents but wasted them all.
Japanese period drama series top it all. I watched the Oda-Toyotomi-Tokugawa shogunate trilogy on San Francisco TV many years ago. In terms of production standard, nothing Chinese can measure up to that until the release of Yongzheng Dynasty, yes, not even Romance Of The Three Kingdoms (which could be hold blameless since it was China's pioneering venture into big production).
HK and Taiwanese period dramas are pure craps. It's a shame that Japan seem to have stopped producing period dramas. Perhaps they've done it all and done it best, hard to beat and run out of historical stories anyway. HK and Taiwan keep regurgitating period novels from Ming-Qing period, Jin Yong and Gu Long ad nauseum decade after decade like recycling paper but have never got it right any time, indeed getting worse and worse. China TV can do it much better that these two pretenders.
That said, HK contemporary dramas have been good, watchable and enjoyable ever since The Chameleon. China contemporary dramas are totally as unwatchable as those made in Taiwan. The Taiwan TV industry is only good for dubbing and subtitling Mandarin for Cantonese and Japanese.