This essay questions NHK’s reporting on the radar-lock dispute, focusing on video analysis, zoom-related misinterpretations, and the responsibilities of a publicly funded broadcaster. It examines whether key technical details were sufficiently addressed in coverage.

January 8, 2019.
NHK should change its name from Japan’s public broadcaster to the state broadcaster of Korea or China. If it did so, I would no longer need to write a single word about you.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
(4).
The reason why the destroyer’s camera footage has not been aired is likely the same.
The destroyer’s camera must perfectly capture the Self-Defense Force aircraft behind the ship at the exact same timing as the “new 10 seconds” of footage.
From the angle and other factors, the image would allow calculation of a distance of “500 meters” and an altitude of “180 to 200 meters.”
That is precisely why the camera footage from the destroyer cannot be released.
It would be nothing less than a “suicidal act.”
(5).
There is also a reason I inferred that the Self-Defense Force aircraft was flying at an altitude of “180 to 200 meters.”
As shown in the Korean video, the aircraft would have had to fly “150 meters above” the highest part of the destroyer.
The destroyer has towers and antennas whose height is estimated at “30 meters” above sea level.
Thus, “tower 30 plus altitude 150 equals sea-level altitude 180 meters.”
By my calculation, the aircraft was flying at an altitude of “180 to 200 meters” above the sea surface.
There is absolutely no problem under international law.
(6).
The Korean side claims that the aircraft “approached rapidly” based on Japan’s footage.
However, that is simply footage created by the camera’s zoom function.
The aircraft did not rapidly approach the destroyer.
Could it be that they do not understand even such “basic” matters.
Why can we tell that this footage is a zoom-based approach image.
The answer is simple.
Thanks to the new “10 seconds” presented by the Korean side, it has been confirmed that the aircraft maintained stable altitude and speed.
In this state of stable flight, the aircraft zoomed in and returned to standard view.
It did not make any sudden maneuver.
For example, the aircraft could ascend diagonally at the same angle and then film using zoom.
What would happen then.
If zoomed from the same angle, footage taken from a higher position can appear almost identical to footage taken from a lower position.
Do Korean cameras not have a zoom function.
Has no one in Korea ever used zoom.
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NHK is one of the world’s leading broadcasting organizations in imaging technology, and that may be said to be its true value.
There is no way NHK does not understand these basic facts about image manipulation described above.
Yet last night, Arima of NHK’s News Watch 9 did not mention this simple fact at all.
Moreover, NHK deleted the footage released by the Ministry of Defense on December 28.
NHK should change its name from Japan’s public broadcaster to the state broadcaster of Korea or China. If it did so, I would no longer need to write a single word about you.