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Fuji Television Network Inc. had the highest ratio of female employees among Japan s commercial broadcasters, but over 70% of commercial broadcasters have no women in executive positions, a survey has found. | BLOOMBERG
Kyodo May 25, 2021
Over 70% of commercial broadcasters in Japan said they had no women in executive positions, a labor union survey showed Monday, highlighting the male-dominated leadership of the mass media industry.
Of the total of 1,797 executives at 127 commercial broadcasters, only 2.2%, or 40, were female, according to the first such survey conducted in the year through March by the Japan Federation of Commercial Broadcast Workers’ Unions, with its umbrella organization calling for increased female representation
Dancers perform a traditional Ainu dance to mark the opening of the National Ainu Museum and Park. (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Nippon Television Network Corp. took the unusual step of using a news program to apologize for another program that on March 12 used a pejorative to refer to the nation’s indigenous Ainu people.
In the program that aired, a comedian used the word “inu,” which means “dog” and was apparently intended as a pun on Ainu, when a documentary about an Ainu woman shown on the Hulu streaming video service was introduced.
According to Jirota Mokottunas Kitahara, an associate professor at Hokkaido University’s Center for Ainu and Indigenous Studies, dog has been used to belittle the Ainu people since olden days.