THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
July 9, 2021 at 15:20 JST
Shunzo Morishita, left, the chairman of the Board of Governors of Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) and Terunobu Maeda, NHK's president, attend a Lower House Internal Affairs and Communications Committee session in March 2020. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
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