<figure id="attachment_419469" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-419469" style="width: 1569px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="8e93dd31"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/03/35e0b3de6898bd13750b89b95b8e5b79.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-419469" class="wp-caption-text">Shingo Murakami (left) and Matsuko Deluxe, MCs of &#8220;Monday Night Live. The effects of the fabrication scandal are worrisome. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2> This is an act that should never happen in the TV media.</h2>
 It seems that TV people who are obsessed with &#8220;making something interesting &#8230;&#8230;&#8221; have been involved in the &#8220;forbidden fruit&#8221;.
 It has been discovered that NTV&#8217;s &#8220;Monday Night Fakashi,&#8221; in which Matsuko Deluxe (52) and &#8220;Super Eight&#8221; star Shingo Murakami (43) serve as MCs, intentionally &#8220;fabricated&#8221; the comments of a Chinese woman interviewed on the street in the March 24 broadcast.
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 The content of the program was reconfirmed. When we interviewed a woman from Guangzhou, China, last March, she said
 She said, &#8220;A crow came to our balcony and took a hanger. I haven&#8217;t dried (my laundry) outside since then.&#8221;
 She told us, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t dried [my laundry] outside since then. She shows a photo of a crow with a hanger in its mouth on her phone. The &#8220;fabrication&#8221; is what follows.
 There aren&#8217;t many crows flying in China. There aren&#8217;t many because everyone eats them. Anyway, we end up stewing them and eating them.&#8221;
 It is in the form of a conversation.
 On March 27, NTV admitted on its official website that these statements were fabrications and apologized.
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 In fact, there is no fact that the woman made any statement to the effect that &#8220;in China they eat crows,&#8221; and the production staff intentionally edited the content of a conversation on a different topic, which was completely different from the purpose of the woman&#8217;s statement.
 This is an act that should never have happened in the TV media, and we sincerely apologize to the woman who cooperated in the interview, as well as to our viewers.
 The apology was also published in Chinese.
 A reporter of this website interviewed a woman from China to be sure.
 She said, &#8220;It is true that the range of ingredients used for cooking in China is wide. Besides, there are fewer crows on the streets of China than in Japan. That does not mean that Chinese people eat crows.&#8221;
 A NTV official commented on the latest fabrication fiasco,
 &#8220;It is truly embarrassing that we have not been able to reflect on what we did last time. &#8230;&#8230;
 ,&#8221; said one NTV official with a serious expression on his face.
 This is because NTV had previously been in hot water over a discriminatory expression made by a comedian in a program about the Ainu tribe in the March 12, 2009 broadcast of &#8220;Sukkiri. Moreover, the program was pre-recorded, not live, and had slipped through the checks of the director and producer.
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<h2>An unnatural encounter, even from the same TV man&#8217;s point of view.</h2>
 In short, no one felt it was discriminatory. Subsequently, the BPO&#8217;s Broadcasting Ethics Verification Committee
 The BPO&#8217;s Broadcasting Ethics Verification Committee subsequently issued an opinion stating that there had been a violation of broadcasting ethics.
 The BPO&#8217;s Broadcasting Ethics Verification Committee subsequently issued an opinion stating that there had been a violation of broadcasting ethics because the program &#8220;contained clearly discriminatory expressions.
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 The &#8220;Yoru Fukashi&#8221; program was also malicious in that it fabricated discriminatory remarks.
 According to the director of the TV station,
 The nature of &#8220;Yoru Fukashi&#8221; is that it often consists of street interviews, so they are just randomly picking up a lot of people. They are actively talking to even the most dangerous and strange people. If you are talking to them, you still have many unnatural encounters, even from the same TV person&#8217;s point of view. I once saw a person I encountered on the street who was really a comedian but was showing off his special skills, etc. without revealing his true identity. &#8220;Didn&#8217;t he really make an appointment and plant the idea?&#8221; I thought that several times.&#8221;
 He then questioned the program&#8217;s coverage,
 I understand that the director is desperate to make something interesting because the on-air date has already been set. But if they go too far, they may end up fabricating something like this.
 As a TV director, he expressed his opinion as a TV person as well.
 It is true that the food culture is different in China, and there may be an image that Chinese people eat foods that Japanese people do not eat, but did Nippon TV staff think that this was a simple thing and &#8220;fabricate&#8221; it?
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 The Chinese woman who answered our questions spoke fluent Japanese. If the producer or other staff members felt that the finished VTR was &#8220;suspicious,&#8221; they could have checked the original shooting materials. As with the previous Ainu issue, this can only be attributed to negligence on the part of those involved in the program. The timing of this incident is not good, as trust in the TV industry as a whole has been shaken by the Fuji Television issue and other problems. The station is now in a state of panic, fearing that it will become another &#8220;BPO case.
 Another broadcasting problem within Nippon TV. What will the BPO do?

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