NHK exec who resigned over Chinese staffer's remarks rehired

An executive at public broadcaster NHK who resigned after a Chinese staffer made unscripted remarks claiming the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands are China's territory was rehired a week later, a source close to the matter said Thursday.Kenji Sobata stepped down on Sept. 10 as a board director overseeing output in languages including English and Chinese over the mid-August radio broadcast in which the contract worker said the uninhabited islets belong to China after reading a news item about graffiti at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo.Japan and China are at odds over the islands in …READ FULL ARTICLE