Katsuto Momii

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Katsuto Momii

Katsuto Momii ( Japanese 籾 井 勝 人 , Momii Katsuto ; born March 4, 1943 in Yamada (today: Kama ), Fukuoka Prefecture ) is a Japanese manager and since January 2014 chairman (kaichō) of the public broadcaster NHK (English Japan Broadcasting Corp. ).

Momii worked after his studies at the economics faculty of the University of Kyūshū from 1965 for Mitsui Bussan (English Mitsui & Co., Ltd. ), where he rose to the board in 1997 and, among other things, headed the US subsidiary and was vice president. In 2005 he moved to Nihon Unisys , which he led as president until 2011. He then worked as a consultant and was also Vice President of the Nippon Badminton Kyōkai and until 2013 President of the Badminton Asia Confederation .

In December 2013, the Management Committee ( keiei iinkai ) of the NHK appointed Momii as the successor to Masayuki Matsumoto, who retired from the head of the NHK after a three-year term. Momii took office on January 25, 2014. In interviews before he took office, he sparked protests in the national and international public when he questioned the political neutrality of the NHK, demanded that the NHK should take a clearer stand in territorial conflicts with neighboring states, defended the Abe government's law on the protection of state secrets and described forced prostitution for the Japanese military in the Pacific War (" comfort women ") as a normal practice of a country at war.

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  1. ^ Nihon Unisys: Club Unisys Plus, Foreword Issue 17
  2. ↑ Nippon Badminton Kyōkai: 協会 概要
  3. ↑ 領土 問題 、 日本 の 立場 主張 ＝ 放送 セ ン タ ー 建 て 替 え 前 倒 し —ＮＨＫ 新 会長 . In: The Wall Street Journal . January 25, 2014, Retrieved January 27, 2014 (Japanese).
  4. ^ New NHK chairman: All warring nations had 'comfort women'. (No longer available online.) In: Asahi Shimbun Asia & Japan Watch. January 26, 2014, archived from the original on January 30, 2014 ; accessed on January 27, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ajw.asahi.com
  5. ↑ New NHK boss ignites a firestorm. Momii's debut speech puts sex slave row back in spotlight. In: The Japan Times . January 27, 2014, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Japan NHK boss Momii sparks WWII 'comfort women' row. In: BBC News . January 26, 2014, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Japan's NHK boss apologises for 'comfort women' comments. In: BBC News . January 27, 2014, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Japan's NHK boss apologises for 'comfort women' comments. In: BBC News . January 27, 2014, accessed January 27, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Patrick Zoll: Japan's broadcasting company NHK: In step with the government. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 8, 2014, accessed February 10, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Momii, Katsuto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 籾 井 勝 人 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese manager
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Yamada (Fukuoka) , Fukuoka Prefecture