NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) Sends Notifications Against Unpaid Viewing Fee Considering Judicial Action--from Japan

Hi there!! It's almost 5 pm here in Japan. How's it going? This is the second post today:

NHK announced today that they are going to send notifications to business offices in Tokyo with an assumption of civil action. Yomiuri newspaper reported it today.

NHK is a public broadcasting organization that has forced citizens to pay 1345 yen per month whether or not their TV programs are so boring without trying to make any efforts to reduce their spending such as labor cost.

Because of their successive scandals in recent years, many people start to ignore the payment. In addition, with this trend, it was found that around 10,000.000 citizens are avoiding even contracting with NHK. This let citizens who had no choice but contracted with NHK following their good obedient heart feel quite unfair.

Now, this NHK is going to take action for getting contracts from those 10,000,000 people with legal action whether or not they are individuals or business offices.

Government, current ruling party, has established a committee to think about broadcasting industries, but they decided not to make the payment of NHK obligatory. They must be afraid of citizens' opposition.

There is quite vague rule about NHK. The staff of NHK have persuaded citizens into contracting right after citizens own TV. However, it is not totally illegal not to contract. It's a kind of rule.

So far, so many citizens have followed to contract with common sense, but because many scandals in NHK were found, citizens started to feel stupid about the payment strongly. Yes, I also watch their program just a couple of times in a month, but 1345 yen will go to their pocket. So expensive!!

The meaning of existence of NHK is not the same as past. However, it seems that NHK is used for a place of golden parachuting by government officials!! That's why they never try to lay off workers or downsize making citizens pay money forcefully!!

So many termites are grinning in the old buildings. Without clearing them, Japan will sink under sea in the near future.

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