#10 2022/10/13

Japanese Public Broadcasting 

I just want to write about NHK today. First of all, I am not on the NHK side. Of course, I've been thinking that I won't pay such a high reception fee even though I don't often watch NHK programs. I often hear the news related to the situation that many Japanese people complain about the high reception fees charged by NHK and I've been the one of the majority. However, it is true that I've been wondering why the majorities are always complaining about the way of NHK to charge the people for receiving fees. Finally, I just got this urge to investigate the real situation we are in. On the below, I made a  graph that shows how much the ratio of the receiving fee to the median income in Japan. Against the fact that many people are complaining, the receiving fee is not so high as the other developed countries. The ratio of Japan is about 1.1 which is comparative to the one of France. Indeed, there are many countries whose reception fees are lower than ours, but our reception fees are never higher than any other countries. I felt kind of relieved when I saw this result. Although this analysis is not based on the accurate information, it is true that we are not charged for too high receiving fees from NHK. I got to be willing to pay for the fees today.

受信料
receiving fee / reception fee

AにBを請求する
charge A for B

急にしたくなった
got the urge to do ~

事実に反して
against the fact