突然の指名に「驚き」　公共波にふさわしく―ＮＨＫ次期会長

　ＮＨＫ次期会長に決まったみずほフィナンシャルグループ元社長の前田晃伸氏（７４）は１０日、東京都内で記者会見し、「突然の指名で驚いているが、公共放送にふさわしい仕事をしていきたい」と抱負を語った。
　前田氏によると、会長就任は経営委員会の石原進委員長から９日に突然依頼を受けた。事前に打診はなく「ぜひやってほしいと言われ、こうなったら仕方がない」と即断したという。来年４月の本格運用を目指すインターネット常時同時配信などＮＨＫが抱える経営課題については、「就任までにしっかり勉強したい」と述べるにとどめた。
　ＮＨＫでは、かんぽ生命保険の不適切販売を報じた番組をめぐり、日本郵政の抗議を受けて経営委が上田良一現会長を厳重注意していたことが発覚。個別番組への介入との批判の声も上がったが、前田氏は「今のところ、明確には問題意識が頭の中にない」と語った。（2019/12/10-18:31）

Former Japanese banker Terunobu Maeda, who was named the next president of Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, said Tuesday that he will focus on creating television programs the public can trust.
   "The most important thing is to continue to make programs trusted by the public, as NHK is the public broadcaster," Maeda, 74, former chairman of Mizuho Financial Group Inc. , told a news conference.
   The broadcaster's board of governors severely warned incumbent NHK President Ryoichi Ueda in October 2018 over an NHK TV program aired earlier that year that reported the Japan Post Holdings Co. group's inappropriate insurance sales practices, following a protest from the group.
   "At the moment, I have no clear awareness of the issue," Maeda said of the board's move, which has been criticized as intervention in an individual NHK program.
   On Monday, Maeda was selected as the next NHK president to succeed Ueda, 70, whose term of office is scheduled to expire on Jan. 24, 2020. Maeda is expected to serve his three-year term as NHK president from Jan. 25.