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NHK Turns 100: President Nobuo Inaba On How The Japanese Public Broadcaster Steers A Course Through Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Political Ructions & Disinformation
NHK President Nobuo Inaba talked Taiga drama, fake news & 'Shogun' as the Japanese public broadcaster turns 100.
NHK was founded in 1926 (2025 is technically its 100th year as it began operating in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya in March 2025) and is therefore one of the world’s oldest pubcasters, offering news, drama, comedy, children’s, unscripted and docs across TV channels and an on-demand player along with an international network. Here, he spoke about how pubcasters can “correct biases and distortions,” and had “deep one-on-one discussions” with BBC Director General Tim Davie and European Broadcasting Union chief Noel Curran “on topics concerning the public service media’s activities in the online space.” As part of its long-running relationship with the Discovery Channel in 2012, NHK went on to capture the world’s first video images of a giant squid (pictured above) in its natural deep‐ocean habitat, bringing home how global warming was reaching even the deep sea.
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