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DrP wrote:The NHK guy basically stalks my house. I told him we have at least 7 TV's and watch all of them continuously. Though, none of them are used for terrestrial broadcast reception - only direct connection to stb's, DVD/HD players, vod adapters and cctv.
Fears of exposure of drug use, kinky sex habits and a "harem" of women led a Tokyo man to batter his ex-wife to death, but his trial revealed an even more chilling side to his actions than the heinous acts he was accused of, according to Shukan Gendai (5/10-17).
Koji Shiga is now serving 10 years in jail after the Tokyo District Court found him guilty of inflicting injury resulting in the death of his former spouse, 40-year-old Miho Shiga, in a vicious overnight onslaught on May 27 last year.
Shiga lived in a three-story house in Tokyo's Adachi-ku. He set up ex-wife Miho and their children on the first floor, kept his lover, 34-year-old Tomoko Hitomi, on the second floor, and occupied the entire top floor himself. He had another lover he frequently called over to his home, and, as if that wasn't enough, he also owned a home in Shinjuku-ku together with the Chinese woman who is currently his legal wife. Shiga spent much of his time moving between the homes in Shinjuku-ku and Adachi-ku, the latter the place where Miho Shiga lost her life....more...
NHK has decided to cut viewing fees by 10 percent in fiscal 2012, sources said. NHK President Shigeo Fukuchi and other executives decided to cut the fee after it was recommended by the broadcaster's Board of Governors. The board, chaired by Shigetaka Komori, had refused to approve the company's next three-year management plan. Company executives will stress in talks with the board they did not propose the viewing fee cut, and that it was incorporated into the management plan as a supplementary resolution under the board's authority, according to sources. One executive said, "The board also has to be responsible for management." The Board of Governors, however, wants its executives to make the viewing fee cut decision on their own. The governors and executives hope to conclude their talks on the fee cut Tuesday.
Mulboyne wrote:This article (Japanese) suggests that NHK is increasingly resorting to the courts to enforce payment of the licence fee. Since November 2006, the broadcaster has begun proceedings in 436 cases. In particular, they are going after non-payment by institutions such as hotels.
Yokohammer wrote:The article also says that although they can probably force corporations and institutions to cooperate through legal action, private individuals are a different matter, and it will be difficult to get money out of people who don't want to pay. According to the lawyers quoted, NHK's warning that they're going to go after individuals as well is mostly a scare tactic.
Personally I have no problem with paying, and I don't think the basic fee is particularly high, but NHK really does need to do something about the attitudes of their local staff.
My wife and I have just moved to a new house, and it was less than a week before a surly NHK rep showed up and, without even asking if we had a TV simply said "the fee is collected in advance," shoving his way into the genkan and craning his head around to see if he could hear any hint of a TV running. There isn't. The house we bought has an antenna on the roof, but according the estate agent and seller it isn't connected for some reason so we need to have that worked on. No TV yet. I told the guy so, but then he proceeded to push in even further and say things like "do you have CS too?" when there is no parabola anywhere on the house, and I had just finished telling him we haven't even set up a TV yet. Really pissed me off. Anyway, so after telling him about three times and standing firmly in his way so he couldn't push in any further, he showed outward displeasure that he wasn't going to get his contract and left saying "I'll be back."
Right, so the next time he does show up, whether we have our TV ready or not by then, I'm going to get his name card and send him on his way saying "when we're ready we'll apply via the Internet (which is really quite easy), so there's no need for you to come around." Depending on the response I get he may or may not be reported to NHK. Not that it'll do any good, but they really need to hear about thugs like this.
Like I said, I'm happy to pay, but have no intention of dealing with pushy NHK nazis.
wuchan wrote: ... I come around to the front to see him trying to pull the door open. So I yell at him again, still holding a running chainsaw. He turned, saw me and ran, literally fucking ran. My wife gave me the WTF speech and was pissed that the cops were probably going to show up. The cops never came and NHK never came back......
kagemusha wrote:A few years ago the NHK guy came over just a week after we moved to the new house. I argued with him and said we don't watch TV and I don't intend to pay for something I don't need. He stood his ground for a minute and then the two dogs who were basking in the sun in back yard came running around the corner barking like crazy. I'm not talking about chiwawas here but two 40kg dogs. They are the most gentle creatures in the world and always welcome visitors wagging their tails but that time they were right on the spot. The guy broke the Olympic record and disappear in friction of a second never to come back.
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Yokohammer wrote:Personally I have no problem with paying, and I don't think the basic fee is particularly high, but NHK really does need to do something about the attitudes of their local staff.
CrankyBastard wrote:I read somewhere recently (can't remember where, 'm too old to give shit) that they're trying to pass a 'law' requiring people to pay the fees if there's a working antenna cable socket on the premises.
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Iraira wrote:The NHK man hasn't been by for awhile, but the shinbun guys have been making their rounds. Latest encounter was in the middle of a much needed bladder emptying. I thought it was the gf, so I strained to cut off the flow without depositing the overly yellow juice in my drawers and ran over to the intercom (must mean I really like her if I'm gonna stop mid-piss to buzz her in).
Turns out to be the Yomiuri guy. I cut him off the minute he said what paper he was hawking, told him that I thought he was my gf and that I had been taking a much needed piss when he buzzed me. I asked him if he'd ever had to cut off a piss, and I swear I heard him making the air sucking sound through the intercom.
Hung up, went back to finish my piss, which didn't have the full relief sensation I was hoping for. Fucking shinbun bastards.
On Dec. 1 it notified two Tokyo households that it would institute civil proceedings to force them to sign contracts and pony up back payments.
The same day, it filed papers with district courts for permission to seize the assets of 24 individuals in 14 cities and prefectures who had signed contracts but had not paid for periods of between a few months and years. They owe a total of $32,350.
The pubcaster sent similar warnings to eight deadbeats in May, of whom seven reached settlements and one has since had assets seized.
Although NHK is making an example of a few of the worst offenders, rather than going after thousands of scofflaws, it hopes its assets-seizure strategy will persuade others to cough up.
"We consider this the method of last resort to ensure that everyone bears the burden of the receiving fees equally," the broadcaster said in a statement.
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