NHK hat nicht vor, den Komiker Hitoshi Matsumoto in seinen Sendungen zu präsentieren: „Es lag in unserem eigenen redaktionellen Ermessen.“

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>NHK announced on January 20 that it has no plans to air a program featuring Hitoshi Matsumoto of the comedy duo “Downtown,” who has withdrawn his lawsuit against a weekly magazine report alleging that he has forced others to perform sexual acts. The decision was made based on the content of the program and the direction of the program. The head of the Planning and Management Center of the Content Strategy Bureau responded at Chairman Nobuo Inaba’s regular press conference held on the same day.

>Chairman Inaba stated that the singers of “STARTO ENTERTAINMENT,” which took over the former Johnny & Associates Inc., did not participate in the New Year’s Eve program “Kohaku Uta Gassen” for the second consecutive year. “I have not heard the details of the negotiations for their appearance, but it is regrettable that they did not comply as a result,” Inaba said. (Kyodo)