Japanese Broadcast Official: We Didn’t Commit War Crimes, the U.S. Just Made That Up

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-japans-bbc-is-rewriting-its-role-in-second-world-war-9115827.html

How Japan’s ‘BBC’ is rewriting its role in Second World War

DAVID MCNEILL TOKYO Friday 07 February 2014

Naoki Hyakuta says Japan was lured into the Second World War by America while liberating Asia from white colonialism.

He denies war crimes such as the 1937 Nanjing massacre, when Japanese troops killed thousands of Chinese civilians. Such views are common among revisionists in Japan. Mr Hyakuta, however, sits on the board of the nation’s public service broadcaster.

NHK has annual revenue of more than $6bn (£3.7bn), putting it close to the BBC. Like the British broadcaster, it is obliged to be impartial and aloof from the political fray, so the company is under intense fire for the extraordinary views of four its governors, all reportedly handpicked by the right-wing Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. The 12-member board controls programming policy and budgets.

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Thanks to Kablooie for bringing it up: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=84543