According to the station and Tahara’s office, the broadcast on the 19th featured a discussion with guests Satsuki Katayama of the Liberal Democratic Party, Kiyomi Tsujimoto of the Constitutional Democratic Party, and Mizuho Fukushima of the Social Democratic Party, who criticized the political stance of Sanae Takaichi, who became prime minister on March 21. I wish he would just die.
The station stated, “Due to the inappropriate content of some of Mr. Tahara’s comments in the discussion program broadcast on the 19th, we have issued a strict warning to him. We will take your comments seriously and make the most of them in our future programming.
Tahara’s office said, “The comment was not meant as criticism of Mr. Takaichi, but as anger that the opposition party should get its act together, but it came across as abusive,” and that Tahara will apologize in the next broadcast.