会長注意、議事録に残さず＝番組介入の批判意識か－ＮＨＫ経営委

　日本郵政傘下のかんぽ生命保険の不適切販売問題を報道した昨年４月のＮＨＫ番組をめぐり、日本郵政側の抗議を受け、ＮＨＫ経営委員会が上田良一会長を厳重注意した問題で、経営委が公開している議事録にこの事実を記載していないことが３０日、分かった。放送法が禁じる経営委による個別番組への介入と批判されることを恐れ、非公開の扱いで注意した可能性がある。
　放送法は経営委委員長（石原進ＪＲ九州相談役）に議事録の作成と公表を義務付けている。ただ、公表対象は経営委の裁量に委ねられており、公表基準は公開されていない。
　経営委は、不適切販売を報じた番組の関連動画について日本郵政側が「犯罪的営業を組織ぐるみでやっている印象を与える」と抗議したことに対し、番組関係者が「制作の責任は会長にない」と説明したことを問題視。昨年１０月２３日、上田氏に「ガバナンス（企業統治）体制の強化」を求めて厳重注意した。ＮＨＫは当初予定していた続編の放送を見送っており、郵政側の抗議が影響した可能性が指摘されている。（2019/09/30-12:07）

The Board of Governors of Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, did not record in its meeting minutes a warning it gave to Ryoichi Ueda, president of the public broadcaster, over a program on inappropriate sales practices involving Japan Post Insurance Co. products, it was learned Monday.
   The warning is believed to have been withheld from the public record of proceedings over fears that it may be criticized as an intervention on a particular program, an action the board is banned from taking under Japan's Broadcast Act.
   The same law requires the chairman of the board, currently Susumu Ishihara, who is also a consultant of Kyushu Railway Co. , to create and release minutes of its meetings. At the same time, the scope of what is released is left to the discretion of the board, and the standard for determining the scope has not been made public.
   The board found problematic a statement by officials involved in the program explaining that the program production and management were separate, and that Ueda was not involved in creating programs. The statement was made following a complaint by Japan Post Holdings Co. over the report on inappropriate sales practices by its insurance unit, saying it gave an impression that criminal sales acts were being committed on an organizationwide basis.
   The board warned Ueda on Oct. 23 last year to strengthen the public broadcaster's governance system.