Sunday, May 10, 2015
Toru Nakakita, a Professor of economics and a Japanese Radio host had just recently quit his radio job. Nakakita planned to talk
about the rising operating costs of nuclear power worldwide, Nakakita planned to say in his
original script that “damages to be paid in the wake of a nuclear
plant accident are extraordinarily high.” Japanese government knew that if this information leaked out to the public their will be an uproar of people agreeing with Nakaekita and questioning the government. But the show's program director intervened with Nakakita and told him that information will be offensive to the government and since Japan was in a election year the program director felt like this information would change the voting behavior. So Nakakita's speech was censored. Nakakita felt that programs excuse was a lie so he quit the show. I applaud Nakaikta for not let anyone try and tell him what to do
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Stick it to the man! But actually thats really brave of this guy to quit that job in protest. Its something thats hard to do and dangerous.
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