BS Asahi announced on March 24 that it would end its debate program “Gekiroku! Crossfire,” the station’s debate program, will be terminated. BS Asahi announced, “On the October 19 broadcast of BS Asahi’s ‘Gekiroku! Crossfire,” BS Asahi reported that an extraordinary meeting of the board of directors was held on October 24 to carefully discuss the matter. Photo】BBC Asahi’s “Geki-Debate! As a result, “We have determined that Mr. Tahara’s comments deviate from the morals of a political debate program, and have decided to terminate the program with the broadcast of the relevant episode,” the report said. The program was recorded in VTR format, so the inappropriate comments could have been edited out, but we have taken disciplinary action against the program manager and the director of the programming and production bureau who failed to do so,” the report said. He added, “Once again, we would like to extend our sincere apologies to our viewers and all those involved. We will continue to further ensure thoroughness in program production and broadcasting ethics,” he apologized. Mr. Tahara is also the host of the station’s program “Live TV till Morning! a program on the same station, but there are no plans to drop or terminate this program. Mr. Tahara will be the host of BS Asahi’s “Geki-Debate: Crossfire,” which will be broadcast on the 19th! Crossfire,” which he hosts. In the program, guests Kiyomi Tsujimoto and Mizuho Fukushima criticized Sanae Takaichi for her negative attitude toward the selective surname system. Later, Mr. Tahara said, “We should just tell such a person to die,” which caused controversy.
