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At its regular press briefing on September 16, NHK revealed it had handed down the harshest possible penalty — dismissal — to a reporter in his twenties for sexually touching a colleague without consent. At the same briefing, Chairman Tatsuhiko Inoue bowed his head for about five seconds while remaining seated to apologize for a separate case disclosed last month, in which a staff member was driven to take leave or resign after suffering unwanted sexual abuse from a program’s on-air talent. The chairman said the two incidents should not be treated as isolated cases but as a reflection of problems across the organization as a whole, adding that while both involved dinner gatherings where alcohol was served, “this isn’t meant to condemn such gatherings themselves.” On 5channel, users questioned why the chairman apologized while seated and why the talent responsible in the harassment case still hasn’t been named.
NHK held its regular press conference on the 16th at its Tokyo headquarters. It announced that, effective the 9th of this month, it had issued its harshest penalty — dismissal — to a reporter in his twenties who engaged in unwanted sexual physical contact.
Chairman Tatsuhiko Inoue, present at the briefing, also apologized for the case disclosed at last month’s emergency press conference, in which a staff member was driven to take leave or resign after suffering unwanted sexual abuse at the hands of a program’s on-air talent. Citing damage to “viewers’ trust,” the chairman bowed his head for roughly five seconds while remaining seated.
Regarding both cases, he stated that they should not be viewed as “individual, isolated incidents” but rather prompt a reexamination of the organization as a whole. He also noted that since both cases involved gatherings where alcohol was consumed, “this isn’t meant to condemn dinner gatherings that involve drinking.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
[Bunshun scoop] TBS covers up VIVANT director Katsuo Fukuzawa's (62) 'bone-breaking harassment' (victim needed a full month to recover, yet he got a laughably light punishment)
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Just name the guy already.
He might be doing the exact same thing at other networks too.
Meanwhile at Fuji TV it leaks straight to one specific tabloid almost instantly.
Come on, use our license fees to at least cover it up properly.
He's probably just reminiscing about it with a dreamy look on his face.
If it's eating at you, just learn to forget about it.
And a seated press conference to boot.
Were they all partying it up together?
it's one thing for a free commercial network to shield a perpetrator,
but isn't it way too much for NHK — which collects license fees straight from viewers — to be harboring a criminal?
And isn't telling viewers what they actually want to know supposed to be your entire job?
That's exactly why I only ever drink alone.
Funny how the feminists have gone completely silent on this one.
Just make them stop already.
There's no sexual assault here.
Setting the victim aside, if the perpetrator's name never comes out and there's no criminal complaint filed, then as far as anyone's concerned the incident never happened.
If it's just a private settlement between individuals, there's no obligation to announce it publicly anyway.
In other words, no sexual assault ever took place.
Background and Key Points of This Story
NHK is a network with a well-known history of alcohol-related scandals, dating back to the 2018 incident involving TOKIO’s Tatsuya Yamaguchi. This time, two separate cases — “a reporter dismissed for misconduct” and “a staffer sexually abused by an on-air talent” — were addressed at the same press conference, which led to some confusion on the forum thread about whether they were connected. NHK itself framed the two not as isolated incidents but as symptoms of a broader organizational problem, without disclosing the real names or exact relationship between the perpetrators and victims involved. The thread mainly split over two points: whether it was appropriate for the chairman to apologize while remaining seated for roughly five seconds, and frustration that the talent responsible in the harassment case still hasn’t been named. Some pointed out that, unlike commercial broadcasters, information rarely leaks out of NHK to the tabloid press. Meanwhile, the chairman’s comment that he wasn’t condemning “dinner gatherings involving alcohol” reads more like a nod toward preventing recurrence than a genuine effort to get to the root cause — and the briefing gave no real indication of what concrete measures, if any, will actually follow.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “NHK Chairman Bows in Apology for Firing Staffer Over Sexual Misconduct — and for On-Air Talent’s Abuse of Employee — Vows to Rethink Boozy ‘Dinner Parties’.”
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