{"id":20172,"date":"2013-06-27T23:56:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=20172"},"modified":"2013-06-27T23:56:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:56:26","slug":"japanese-man-71-sues-tv-station-for-using-too-many-english-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=20172","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man, 71, sues TV station &#8216;for using too many English words&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/japan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20168\" alt=\"japan\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/japan.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/japan.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/japan-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/japan-447x300.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>A pensioner is suing a Japanese broadcaster for emotional distress as the channel uses to many foreign words.<\/p>\n<p>Hoji Takahashi, 71, wants 1.41million Yen from broadcaster NHK because of their reliance on English.<\/p>\n<p>He says that it makes programming unintelligible and that they should use the traditional Japanese counterparts, reported\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/category\/national\/view\/pensioner-sues-nhk-for-using-too-many-foreign-loanwords\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Today<\/a>.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>His lawyer, Mutsuo Miyata told AFP: \u2018The basis of his concern is that Japan is being too Americanized.<br \/>\n&#8216;There is a sense of crisis that this country is becoming just a province of America.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Many Japanese speakers use English words such as \u2018trouble\u2019, \u2018risk\u2019 or \u2018drive\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>But in Japanese, these words are often pronounced differently, and have new meanings.<\/p>\n<p>They also use words from other languages such as the German \u2018arbeit\u2019 and the Spanish \u2018pan\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pensioner is suing a Japanese broadcaster for emotional distress as the channel uses to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,155,137],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-20172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-japan","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}