No Escape From The NHK Man?

[Yokohammer]

Holy carp! Nice find!
I hadn't heard about this one.

This is taking the right-wing nutcase "our lives being to the Emperor" thing to extremes. She's another one of the 12 all-powerful governors, so that's at least two of 'em who are rabid righties. Something tells me there are a few more of 'em in there.

[matsuki]

What worries me is both FG and Japaneeze alike have expressed a "they're all old and soon they'll all be dead anyway" attitude for all these nutjobs...totally underestimating the growing nationalistic sentiment among younger Japanese and the rewritten history education of the even younger ones. The whole "it'll eventually sort itself out" mentality bothers me as it just shows how the nutjobs have more yaruki here then the average j-person.

[IparryU]

What worries me is both FG and Japaneeze alike have expressed a "they're all old and soon they'll all be dead anyway" attitude for all these nutjobs...totally underestimating the growing nationalistic sentiment among younger Japanese and the rewritten history education of the even younger ones. The whole "it'll eventually sort itself out" mentality bothers me as it just shows how the nutjobs have more yaruki here then the average j-person.

A never-ending cycle of the Lemming mentality... Someone needs to open a path to an ocean or lava pit to stop this shit.

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[Taro Toporific]

And the shitstorm around NHK's right-wing/government alliance continues to rage:
At the JT: Senior NHK manager’s denial of Nanjing Massacre not a problem: Suga

A senior NHK manager who denied any massacre at Nanjing during the 1930s did nothing wrong, government officials said Tuesday, as another storm brewed over the integrity of the national broadcaster.

Ten down, two to go. and also the big fuckwad Chairman Momii.

10 NHK Executives Submit Undated Resignation Letters
Tokyo, Feb. 25 (Jiji Press)--Ten out of 12 executive board members of Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) said Tuesday that they have submitted undated resignation letters to NHK President Katsuto Momii...more...

[Wage Slave]

Soooooooo. I have your pecker in my pocket undated resignation letter held in my office. That means I can add a date at any time I may choose and that is the end of your role at NHK. And he calls this routine personnel management? And this is the executive body that is supposed to lead and oversee NHK's output?

Who are the other two then? That crazy bat who thinks right wing glorification of death restores the emperor's divinity as a matter of Japanese intellectualism and one other most likely even more deranged than Momii.

[Taro Toporific]

NHK receives more than 20,000 complaints about Momii
Jiji Press -- Mar 13, 2014
Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) received some 20,600 complaints from viewers about its president, Katsuto Momii, between Jan. 25, when he assumed the post, and Wednesday, Momii said Thursday.
Of some 31,900 responses relating to Momii, about 5,900 expressed support for him...more...

[Mike Oxlong]

*Seen in protest to funding cuts in Canader.

[JAVGOD]

What worries me is both FG and Japaneeze alike have expressed a "they're all old and soon they'll all be dead anyway" attitude for all these nutjobs...totally underestimating the growing nationalistic sentiment among younger Japanese and the rewritten history education of the even younger ones. The whole "it'll eventually sort itself out" mentality bothers me as it just shows how the nutjobs have more yaruki here then the average j-person.

Agreed. Nationalism is on the rise in our district for sure. The schoolgirls panties are all starched now. Jokes aside, I hope it does not become unsafe for gaijinon the streets late at night.

As for NHK man... My wife sends me to the door and tells me only to speak English. NHK knocked once and has not been back.

[IparryU]

What worries me is both FG and Japaneeze alike have expressed a "they're all old and soon they'll all be dead anyway" attitude for all these nutjobs...totally underestimating the growing nationalistic sentiment among younger Japanese and the rewritten history education of the even younger ones. The whole "it'll eventually sort itself out" mentality bothers me as it just shows how the nutjobs have more yaruki here then the average j-person.

Agreed. Nationalism is on the rise in our district for sure. The schoolgirls panties are all starched now. Jokes aside, I hope it does not become unsafe for gaijinon the streets late at night.

As for NHK man... My wife sends me to the door and tells me only to speak English. NHK knocked once and has not been back.

Did the same for my ex as well. Iirc i was half nekkid when i answered the door. Never came back.

Posted my story a while ago...

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[Taro Toporific]

From NHK, an offer you can't refuse
The Japan Times | 2014/05/14 by Colin P. A. Jones, professor at Doshisha Law School in Kyoto
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... NHK has been taking people to court not just for nonpayment, but for refusing to sign their contracts as well. At a recent dinner, I had the opportunity to ask a judge if the NHK was having any success in such lawsuits. “Yes, but by sacrificing contract law” was his response.

Litigation is where your acquiescence in the “contract” process probably really helps, because if the NHK sues you for nonpayment, it can avoid the problem encountered by our yakuza extortionist: not being able to articulate exactly how much you owe. A definite sum is likely to be a basic requirement in a breach-of-contract action before even the most obsequious of “halibut judges” (justices whose primary concern seems to be how they are regarded by those above them in the judicial hierarchy, much like the halibut, a bottom-dwelling fish whose eyes can only look up). If you sign, the contract has a date that starts the meter running; this makes it easy to calculate the amount you owe. Refusing to sign means more work for NHK, because it has to file a suit just to establish when your contract came into force.

In October 2013, a Tokyo High Court panel led by judge Koichi Nanba leapt to the broadcaster’s aid by declaring that a contract was deemed to come into force two weeks after NHK gave notice of its “offer.” If two weeks seems like a made-up time period with no rational basis, that’s because it is, but judicial arbitrariness is apparently a small price to pay for giving the NHK a firm date from which to start the billing process.

Interestingly, just two months later, a different panel of the same court hearing a similar case reached a different conclusion. In this case, presiding judge Fumio Shimoda rejected the notion that NHK could bring a contract into force unilaterally through mere notification. He noted that there was no support for such an interpretation in the Broadcast Act or even NHK’s own contract terms.

Given this split of opinions at the High Court, at some point the Supreme Court may have to issue a definitive decision on the nature of the NHK contract. In doing so, it will probably be faced with a stark choice between upholding freedom of contract (including the freedom not to contract) on the one hand, and sacrificing legal coherence to protect the interests of the vast edifice of money and influence that is the NHK on the other.

Since the Supreme Court, like the NHK itself, is highly supportive of government policies, the result of such a case seems obvious. The good news is that whatever happens to freedom of contract in Japan, your freedom to not watch NHK will almost certainly remain unscathed.
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[matsuki]

Japan...the gray cuntry....in so many ways.

[yanpa]

Truth in advertising...

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[kurogane]

It only occurred to me the other day that Japanese television is proudly and professedly BS.

[IparryU]

So NHK came by my office yesterday... No fucking clue why he tried to get money out of us... It is an office building ffs.

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[Samurai_Jerk]

So NHK came by my office yesterday... No fucking clue why he tried to get money out of us... It is an office building ffs.

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If you have a TV in your office, you're supposed to pay.

[IparryU]

So NHK came by my office yesterday... No fucking clue why he tried to get money out of us... It is an office building ffs.

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If you have a TV in your office, you're supposed to pay.

Colleague just told him to fuck off i think. Not sure if he'll be back soon or not.

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[wangta]

Fuuuuuuuu, nothing surprising but the swing to nationalism is gaining some crazy speed.

NHK committee member praises right-wing suicide at Asahi HQ in 1993...
ＮＨＫ経営委員:新聞社拳銃自殺事件を礼賛 Mainichi.jp 2014feb05
pic.twitter.com/sVX5lYFKTP---Tokyo Reporter (@tokyoreporter)'s twitter February 5, 2014

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Michiko Hasegawa (67), NHK management committee, professor emeritus of Saitama University

This fascist lover is a fucking disgrace and shouldn't be part of anything to do with universities or public broadcasting stations. She's just another reason not to pay NHK. It's very simple - don't sign anything you don't make a contract. They can send all the letters they like addressed to your gaijin name but unless you agree with the NHK collector to make an actual contract, they can keep sending you all the bills they like but there is no legal way to enforce payment.

In Oz the conservatives such as our ruling party and leader Abbott are screaming about the lefty bias of our national broadcaster ABC. Apart from a few truly fucking stupid things like showing a cartoon of a journalist who criticised ABC in a reasonable way screwing a dog, ABC Oz's bias is preferable to the nasty fascist apologetics of NHK and the right wing pieces of shit who endorse WW2 Japanese 'governance'.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

The ABC gets their money from tax, regardless if you want the service or not. So how is that any better really?

[Hijinx]

My NHK outstanding bill would be about 400,000 ducats if they could prove when my theft of their programming started. That be a lot of fucking beer! Whoo hoo! I rock!

400000/270=

1481.5 500ml cans of Kirin Ichiban

Not a small sum.

[Yokohammer]

This getting ridiculous. Apparently NHK interviewers can't even ask pointed questions of the high and mighty.

NHK apologizes for asking tough questions

The cabinet office lodged a complaint with NHK over tough questions asked during a television interview with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, according to weekly magazine Friday.

The article, released this week, claims that Abe's office forced NHK to "prostrate itself (土下座)" after Suga appeared on a television program called "Close up Gendai" that was aired on July 3rd to talk about Japan-North Korea talks and collective self-defence, a topic that has sparked protests in recent months.

[Russell]

The role of the media in Japan is propaganda, not questioning.

You silly foreigner...

[Yokohammer]

The role of the media in Japan is propaganda, not questioning.

You silly foreigner...

Yeah, still a stupid idealist I guess.

I'll never learn to fit in ... oh woe is me (not) ...

[Russell]

The role of the media in Japan is propaganda, not questioning.

You silly foreigner...

Yeah, still a stupid idealist I guess.

I'll never learn to fit in ... oh woe is me (not) ...

Them "journalists" have to pay off their mortgages.

It's no different in foreign media, though there it is nowadays* less common to apologize afterwards for asking tough questions.


*not in the W Bush years anymore

[Hijinx]

The role of the media in Japan is propaganda, not questioning.

You silly foreigner...

I would say it's advertising, first.

[Coligny]

I'll never learn to fit in ... oh woe is me (not) ...

I know at least one example proving you wrong...

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[wangta]

The ABC gets their money from tax, regardless if you want the service or not. So how is that any better really?

In Oz the public broadcasting money is being paid through the income tax system just in the same way other govt. expenditures are.

The taxes paid for the fuckwits/freeloaders/rent seekers/parasitical/6 yr gravy train senators/ that generally comprise politicians of all stripes come from the same source and nobody can prevent that just as they can't prevent tax money going to cunty first generation jihadist Australians going to cut non Australians' throats in Syria and Iraq while on 'disability pensions'.

By contrast the ABC at least offers some decent news sometimes along with their propaganda concocted by journalists who often came from the richest private schools and affluent backgrounds and as a result tend to pontificate about how other Australians think when in fact they have never had a lot to do with people outside their privileged environments. I'd rather pay for public broadcasting than pigs of politicians with their snouts in the trough,who are making plans to both implement the Australian form of austerity, and also steal from those with money who had the self discipline and wherewithal to save and be future oriented despite not coming from affluent backgrounds.

Yes the pampered politically correct aspect of the ABC can really piss logical people off at times. I love the latest ABC and Fairfax media hysteria about how we should allow 'asylum seekers' from Tamil Nadu in India which is a place that Tamils from Sri Lanka have found refuge already to sail from India to apparently seek refuge in New Zealand, to be recognised as refugees in Australia.

That position is illogical as they already have found refuge in India - no matter what people think about the present Abbott govt, the govt is correct that under the UN Refugee Convention neither Australia nor any other signatory have to accept people who are already safe but want to have a first world lifestyle. Legally the latest cause that the ABC has backed is not tenable. But I would rather have the ABC and pay for it anyday than the disgusting travesty that is NHK especially now that Japan's version of Nazis are allowed to be on its board just because a university is so fucked up as to have them there as some professor.

And the ABC doesn't pay people to trawl neighbourhoods like pushy hawkers doing their best to invade people's privacy and threaten, throw tantrums or plain lie to get its money.

[Wibble]

Despite all the shit talking, their children's morning shows are great.

It is about the only Japanese programming I let my kids watch.

The kids stuff is great and does keep mine quiet of a morning. I can't stand the engrish slot though - tempted to ask for my licence fee back for making that travesty.

fuckin horrible isn't it. and they always have to laugh... WTF is so funny??!?!!?!?

I thought they'd cancelled this in April, but they've only retimed it. Was massively late taking the kids this morning and found them watching this on TV. It was the creepy Pedo Uncle in tight trousers droning on about apples, accompanied by one chord strumming. He's one crazy guy. He has a hat AND a guitar. Great to see the NHK fee being spent on quality education programmes.

[matsuki]

fuckin horrible isn't it. and they always have to laugh... WTF is so funny??!?!!?!?

[Russell]

NHK set to collect subscription fees from online viewers

Katsuto Momii, president of NHK, said in an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun on July 23 that the public broadcaster is set to collect subscription fees from Internet users by allowing them to watch NHK programs via computers and smartphones within the next three years.

The 71-year-old NHK president has been keen on combining TV broadcasting and communication services since he assumed office on Jan. 25 this year. He mentioned the time of starting the joint service for the first time in an interview with the Mainichi.

"As subscription fees for online viewing have already been introduced in many European countries, we have to keep up with them for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020," Momii commented. From the perspective of securing fairness between TV and online viewers, Momii said, "We need to review the subscription fee policy of NHK."

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It is left ambiguous whether he wants to collect fees from all internet users in Japan, who he then would allow to watch NHK's programs online, or whether he wants to collect fees from only those with the explicit wish to watch.

I somehow suspect the former, but I wish him good luck with trying to accomplish that.

[matsuki]

NHK set to collect subscription fees from online viewers

Katsuto Momii, president of NHK, said in an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun on July 23 that the public broadcaster is set to collect subscription fees from Internet users by allowing them to watch NHK programs via computers and smartphones within the next three years.

The 71-year-old NHK president has been keen on combining TV broadcasting and communication services since he assumed office on Jan. 25 this year. He mentioned the time of starting the joint service for the first time in an interview with the Mainichi.

"As subscription fees for online viewing have already been introduced in many European countries, we have to keep up with them for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020," Momii commented. From the perspective of securing fairness between TV and online viewers, Momii said, "We need to review the subscription fee policy of NHK."

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It is left ambiguous whether he wants to collect fees from all internet users in Japan, who he then would allow to watch NHK's programs online, or whether he wants to collect fees from only those with the explicit wish to watch.

I somehow suspect the former, but I wish him good luck with trying to accomplish that.

A swift kick to his shriveled sac is about the only luck I'd wish him. So someone remind me, what are the clauses for ending the NHK contract? I mean, if you move overseas, die, remove all broadcasting equipment, etc?