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We protest NHK for the slanted and fabricated documentary about Japan’s rule of Taiwan.

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Please read the article from YOMIURI ON LINE cited below for knowing the outline of the
issue.


Ｗe insist NHK program shouldn’t be fabricated or slanted.

      Many mistakes and fabrications are spotted in the program. And those wrong in
formations seemed to be created intentionally by the NHK team, and all the mistaken
leads viewers think that Japanese people did nothing but cruelty. We don’t think those
editing are justified. We fear Taiwanese- Japanese good friendship would taint when the
program broadcasted throughout Asia including Taiwan.

       We take for granted that NHK’s documentary is academically fair. Here in Japan, as in
other western democratic countries, people assume history program is a genre of liberal
arts rather than political propaganda. Unfortunately there are some countries around
Japan, where their government think different way. We do not want documentary created
by NHK is under the direction with political aim.

We respect democracy in Taiwan.

    Both Japan and Taiwan have realized common value on democracy. Especially in Taiwan,
democracy developed after Lee Teng-hui succeeded presidency. But after the election held
in 2008, under the presidency of            Ma Ying-jeou, Beijing maneuver for annexing
Taiwan seems apparent. If the annexation of Taiwan to Mainland China accomplished, the
true democracy in Taiwan will change to ‘Chinese style democracy’   with one party
dictation. We don’t want NHK help facilitate such a process, because we have been good
friends, and we don’t want the setback of democracy in Taiwan.


We insist viewers of Japan should rule NHK.

     NHK is a publicly owned corporation funded by viewers' payments of a television license
fee. The Broadcast Law, which governs NHK’s funding, stipulates that any television
equipped to receive NHK is required to pay.

    So NHK should hear the opinion from general viewers. We think that NHK have a
responsibility to the opinions by viewers. Because there are many fabrications, wrong
edits, misuses of several historical terms, we want to hear from NHK about why those
things happened.  We asked them to hold open meeting to review the program.  We sent
letters to headquarters, telephoned a call center for viewers. But the reply from NHK is
virtually nothing. We as viewers, at last, outraged at such a look down attitude of NHK.

We will hold demonstrations.

     We decided to show up our outrage by demonstration.  We held demonstrations three
times so far. More than one thousand people gathered each demonstration in Shibuya
where NHK headquarter located. Some were members of Japan –Taiwan association
groups, some were Taiwanese people living in Japan and Taiwan, but majority of the
participant were ordinary Japanese people who haven’t have experiences on such protests.
Many of us come to know those actions from Internet, notoriously called graffiti of the
toilet by conventional media, 2 channel. We protest against NHK for our dignity, respect
for our ancestors, independence of Taiwan, media independence of Japan, and the future
of Japan and ourselves. We will be grateful for understanding our action.

The example of how NHK fabricated the program.


  NHK captioned as ‘human zoo’ on the photograph on journey of Paiwan people. And they
explained that Paiwan people were labeled as human zoo in Japan –British   exhibition held
in London in 1910.

  But our research revealed that Pascal Blanchard and his colleagues created the term
‘human zoo’ in 2000 in France. We concluded that Paiwan people were not called human
zoo at the exhibition. They are paid for exhibition work and people in Japanese village
were also worked similarly.


 In the interview to Paiwan people, NHK interviewer told one of a daughter of them that her
parents are stigmatized as ‘human zoo’. The daughter said that it was ‘kanashii. In this
context, kanashii meant sad. All this was broadcasted.

  But the true story was quite different. Channel sakura found that the word kanashii
actually expressed nostalgic feelings rather than grief in Paiwan’s Japanese. Moreover
channel sakura confirmed that NHK didn’t speak the word ‘human zoo’ to her. What in the
world happened then?  The story broadcasted really was a result of bunch of fabrications
and edits.

  NHK staff knew that kanashii meant nostalgic but they did not mention the Paiwan
people meant. Japanese people usually think kanasii means grief so the program
intentionally misleads to negative image of the exhibition to viewers in Japan.


There are many other fabrications are spotted on the program. Is the term Japan-
Taiwanese war after ceding Formosa to Japan justified? Did Taiwan people speak Chinese
when Japan began to rule Taiwan? Was it literally possible to ban Chinese when most
people spoke Taiwanese dialects and other languages?  Was the comment of old Taiwan
man that ‘we were abandoned’ treated fairly in the context of the program?

If you are interested in the scandal of NHK,

Please visit the web site http://wiki.livedoor.jp/kyotres/d/OFF%BE%F0%CA%F3

http://wiki.livedoor.jp/kyotres/d/OFF%BE%F0%CA%F3