NHK exec resigns over Chinese staffer's unscripted Senkaku remarks

The president of NHK, Japan's public broadcaster, said Tuesday that an executive has stepped down after a Chinese staffer in an overseas radio broadcast described the Japanese-controlled islands as China's territory in unscripted remarks.The resignation comes as the contract worker in his 40s at an NHK-affiliated company stated during the Aug. 19 broadcast that the Senkaku Islands belong to China, after reading out a news item on about graffiti found at the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo.He went off-script for around 20 seconds, the broadcaster said. Tokyo and Beijing have been at odds…READ FULL ARTICLE