TV Asahi, under fire for distorting coverage of Sunday's anti-Japan protest here, apologized Wednesday on its Hodo Station news and entertainment program for using footage from a hostile protest in Shenzhen on the weekend that it had claimed was shot in Hong Kong.
In a short acknowledgment of the mistake, the show apologized for the error but did not show any footage from the Hong Kong protest, which took place without incident Sunday.
The broadcast in question covered Sunday's protests in various cities across China in an evening infotainment program that aired Monday. The TV Asahi narrator in the broadcast said about 12,000 protesters turned out in Hong Kong and that some were banging on Japanese cars. But the footage being shown took place Sunday in Shenzhen, not Hong Kong.
The Hong Kong government pointed out the discrepancy and demanded a retraction earlier Wednesday.