NHK's Board of Governors decided Tuesday to appoint Ryoichi Ueda, former senior executive vice president of major trading house Mitsubishi Corp., as the next president of the public broadcaster. Ueda, a 67-year-old member of the board, was selected as successor to Katsuto Momii, the 73-year-old ...
Ryoichi Ueda, former chief financial officer of trading house Mitsubishi Corp., is a likely candidate to take the reins at NHK, sources say.
Credibility-challenged NHK chief Katsuto Momii is unlikely to be reappointed next month because of opposition from the public broadcaster’s management board, sources say.
Journalists who refuse to toe the official line are under pressure, experts say
Outspoken NHK Chairman Katsuto Momii has found himself once again mired in controversy after news leaked he gave instructions that the public broadcaster should stick to the official government line when reporting on the nuclear reactor situation in quake-hit Kyushu. Momii later tried to defend ...
NHK Chairman Katsuto Momii offered an apology during a TV program Sunday over the recent spate of criminal cases involving employees of the public broadcaster. Appearing on "Totteoki Sunday," Momii said he deeply regrets the incidents and takes his responsibilities seriously. NHK recently revealed that a ...
The nation's largest opposition party has identified a new target for attack: the gaffe-prone, apparently pro-government chairman of public broadcaster NHK.
More than 170 former employees of NHK petition the board of the public broadcaster to urge biased Chairman Katsuto Momii to resign or strip him of power.
A citizens' group launches a campaign against right-leaning NHK Chairman Katsuto Momii, demanding his immediate resignation and calling on viewers to stop paying their NHK subscription fees.
NHK President Katsuto Momii's move to force board members to submit undated resignations for him to hold over them while he submits no such letter to them is tantamount to a declaration of dictatorship at the public broadcaster.
NHK, which is often compared with the BBC in the U.K., has been a focus of public attention and intense criticism in recent weeks. Many people are taking a closer look at the public broadcaster, including its history and whether it has been politically ...
The new head of the national broadcaster argued last month that sex-slave systems were used by "every country" in wartime and that the practice should not be judged by "today's morality." Osakans offer their views on the comments that have enraged Japan's neighbors.
