Even before the storm raised by new NHK Chairman Katsuto Momii¡¯s Jan. 25 remarks on such issues as Japan¡¯s wartime use of sex slaves, the state secrets law and the role of NHK¡¯s international broadcasts has had a chance to die down, two of the public broadcast organization¡¯s 12 governors have made headlines with equally repugnant statements of their own.
On Feb. 3, novelist Naoki Hyakuta asserted that the 1937 Nanjing Massacre never took place while making a campaign speech for former Air-Self Defense Force Gen. Toshio Tamogami, a candidate in the Feb. 9 Tokyo gubernatorial election.
Michiko Hasegawa, a philosopher and professor emeritus at Saitama University, wrote an essay praising Shusuke Nomura, a rightist who committed suicide inside the Asahi Shimbun building in 1993.
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