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NHK voluntarily airs correction NHK TV aired a correction Nov. 26 to a program broadcast in 1996 -- one day after the Supreme Court rejected a demand for the correction by a woman who had won ¥1.3 million in redress for defamation committed by the broadcaster on a program that referred to her marriage. The NHK program, aired June 8, 1996, featured stories of husbands whose wives unexpectedly told them they wanted divorces. The case of the 58-year-old woman from Saitama Prefecture was mentioned at the beginning of the program in a voice-over narration, which said that her husband was suddenly told that she wanted a divorce after 21 years of marriage. The woman had protested that the producers of the program, in which her husband and son appeared, did not interview her and depicted their divorce in a one-sided manner. She had demanded that the public broadcaster air a correction. On a program broadcast Nov. 26, NHK admitted that its reporting was partially inaccurate. The broadcaster said the woman had been seeking a divorce for nine years when the program was aired. It reported that the divorce was "due to differences in (the couple's) way of thinking and values."
The Japan Times Weekly: Dec. 4, 2004 |
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