An organization that sued NHK in 2001 over altering the content of a mock tribunal it conducted on Japan's wartime "comfort women" brothels is calling on Chairman Katsuto Momii to resign over his comment last week that "all countries" had similar wartime systems.
“We can only say these remarks are a declaration of NHK’s taking on the job of publicly disseminating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s historical views and parroting his historical understanding,” said the Tokyo-based nongovernmental organization Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-Net) in a statement that laid out three reasons why Momii should quit.
"First, NHK, a public broadcaster, must respect the public broadcasting law, which states that freedom of speech in broadcasting will be guaranteed by preserving nonpartisan, truthful and autonomous broadcasting," the statement said.