The Yokohama District Court has ruled that people who watch NHK must pay the “mandatory” subscriber fee even if they don’t like its programs, the public broadcaster said Saturday.
The ruling, made on a lawsuit in November filed by a former judge, said “the obligation of payment or the amount of payment will not be affected by the content of the programs broadcasted.”
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