NHK has officially acknowledged that the underground footage used in its program “The Island Without Green” about Gunkanjima (Hashima) was filmed in 1955—ten years after the end of World War II. South Korean broadcasters had long used this footage as “evidence” of forced labor of Korean workers during the war. The confirmation that the film is postwar undermines a major part of South Korea’s narrative. The revelation raises serious questions about NHK’s failure to correct the record for years and about the ideological bias within NHK’s news division, which critics argue has enabled anti-Japan propaganda. This incident highlights broader concerns regarding Japan’s national broadcaster and the accuracy and neutrality of its reporting.

Footage proven to have been filmed ten years after the end of the war has now undermined a part of South Korea’s claims.
June 20, 2024.

Footage proven to have been filmed ten years after the end of the war has now undermined a part of South Korea’s claims.
June 20, 2023.

Abiru Rui
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NHK has admitted it.
…NHK’s Gunkanjima footage, the film was produced after the war.
https://sankei.com/article/20230619-3WM4WSBZPVI63CFX6YVVWO6Z3Q/…

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It has been confirmed that the film used for the underground scenes in NHK’s 1955 program “The Island Without Green,” which featured Hashima Coal Mine (commonly known as Gunkanjima) in Nagasaki City, was manufactured in the same year—1955.
This was explained by an NHK executive at a Liberal Democratic Party meeting on the 19th.

The underground footage has been used by South Korean television stations as one of the “pieces of evidence” that people from the Korean Peninsula were forced into labor on Gunkanjima during the war.
The confirmation that the footage was filmed ten years after the end of the war has now undermined a part of South Korea’s claims.
Multiple sources revealed this.

At the joint meeting of the LDP Foreign Affairs Division and the Special Committee for Establishing Japan’s Honor and Trust, held on the 19th, NHK Executive Managing Director Hiruo Yamana attended and disclosed the information.

However, just what country’s national broadcaster is NHK supposed to be?
The time has long since come to examine whether the people who control NHK’s news division are Japanese or ethnic Koreans residing in Japan.