NHK exec resigns over Chinese staffer's unscripted Senkaku remarks

Are NHK news program reporters ever allowed to go off-script?

On this topic, I listened to longtime NHK voice Murray Johnson severely criticize the head sumo judge repeatedly for a poor decision that gave Kotozakura an unjustified victory yesterday. (By the way, Kotozakura’s father is head of sumo’s judging department, but we’re probably not supposed to discuss that too deeply.)

I loved Murray’s critique, particularly when replay supported his assessment.

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The Chinese propaganda machine is insidious. Sorry to hear this guy was forced to resign over this, but glad at least one agent has been rooted out.

Taking responsibility is a good thing, but seems a little harsh to make him resign for that.

who does this live anymore? just record it and check it before playing on air. not that hard

The Chinese propaganda machine is insidious. Sorry to hear this guy was forced to resign over this, but glad at least one agent has been rooted out.

But to be fair, NHK culture can't be relied upon to be impartial, they lean left on forced subscriptions just like state funded media the world over.

Make them self funded or at least 50% self funded and see how they'll toe tge national line.

A board director in charge of broadcasting information in various languages, including English and Chinese, has resigned to take responsibility for the incident, effective the same day.

That's not taking responsibility. That's running away from the situation.

Taking responsibility is a good thing, but seems a little harsh to make him resign for that.

The NHK is in a very delicate position because of the forced contributions used to sustain it, anything that people might want to use as an excuse to reject making those contributions has to be dealt with "in excess".

The Diaoyu islands are Chinese territory. The Chinese contract worker told the truth for twenty seconds.

It was war booty from the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese War. 

Japan occupied the islands in early 1895 when China was unable to resist.

Japan only renamed them to the "Senkaku islands" in 1900.

BellflowerToday 03:36 pm JST

China only recognized they existed in the 1970s.

Asiaman7 had it right. That was a travesty.

The guy who actually said the lies on radio needed to be fired. That should have been the end of that. He'll never work in radio for a Japanese company again. Perhaps he can be a waiter somewhere?

The leaders above him should have put in place procedures to prevent this from happening again, which it seems like they did, so that's handled.

Asiaman

talking about sumo and China are two completely different things.

everything on the news side at nhk is scripted and you better stick to it.

BellflowerSep. 11  03:36 pm JST

The Diaoyu islands are Chinese territory. The Chinese contract worker told the truth for twenty seconds.

It was war booty from the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese War. 

Japan occupied the islands in early 1895 when China was unable to resist.

Japan only renamed them to the "Senkaku islands" in 1900.

Fact check,

The Qing Dynasty did not own the Senkakus. It was incorporated as Terra Nulleas in accordance with international protocol in early 1895. As an unhinhabited unclaimed island, it was never occupied except for a Japanese bonito factory, the only remnant of any human presence.

No nation objected including the Qing Dynasty. Because the Qing Dynasty did not consider the Senkakus theirs, it was not included in the territories it ceded to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki., such as Taiwan. The Qing Dynasy never "resisted: because theu didn't consider the islands theirs. "China" as in the PRC did not exist until 1949.

Senkaku Shoto is the Japanese translation of Pinnacle Islands, the Western name for them. Chinese (PRC) maps up to the 1960s showed the Senkakus to be part of Okinawa Prefecture and part of Japan.

China (PRC) created this claim in the 1970s by usurping Taiwan;s claim for fishing rights, as it served to help China break the Fiest Island Chain.