A pensioner is suing a Japanese broadcaster for emotional distress as the channel uses to many foreign words.

Hoji Takahashi, 71, wants 1.41million Yen from broadcaster NHK because of their reliance on English.

He says that it makes programming unintelligible and that they should use the traditional Japanese counterparts, reported Japan Today.

His lawyer, Mutsuo Miyata told AFP: ‘The basis of his concern is that Japan is being too Americanized.
‘There is a sense of crisis that this country is becoming just a province of America.’

Many Japanese speakers use English words such as ‘trouble’, ‘risk’ or ‘drive’.

But in Japanese, these words are often pronounced differently, and have new meanings.

They also use words from other languages such as the German ‘arbeit’ and the Spanish ‘pan’.