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According to Japanese media reports, starting from the 20th, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)'s international radio news program began to "pre-record and broadcast" Chinese news.

Previously, a Chinese male employee who had worked at NHK for 22 years suddenly announced in Chinese without a script during the program: "Diaoyu Islands are Chinese territory", which sparked heated discussions in both China and Japan.

On the 23rd, NHK President Nobuo Inaba apologized for the incident at a Liberal Democratic Party meeting. It is said that Liberal Democratic Party members expressed serious concern about the incident and questioned "why it could not be prevented from happening."

Inaba told Japanese media after the meeting, "We take this incident very seriously and deeply apologize to the audience, listeners and the Japanese people."

To prevent similar incidents from happening again, NHK has decided to pre-record Chinese news reports starting from the 20th, and plans to start playing pre-recorded news reports for users in other languages ​​later this month. In addition, NHK is also considering introducing AI-generated voices to report news when necessary.

NHK headquarters.Nikkei Asia

According to reports, the controversial program was a Chinese radio program broadcast by NHK International Radio on the afternoon of August 19. When the employee was reporting the relevant news, he pronounced the so-called "Senkaku Islands" in the original news as "Diaoyu Islands" and said that "Diaoyu Islands are Chinese territory." The above broadcast content was broadcast in full and in real time, with a total duration of about 20 seconds.