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Japan gov t to ask broadcasters to check foreign ownership compliance
April 6, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Ryota Takeda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on April 6, 2021. (Mainichi/Kan Takeuchi) TOKYO (Kyodo) The Japanese government is set to instruct all broadcasters to investigate whether they are complying with foreign ownership rules after major broadcaster Fuji Media Holdings Inc. said it may have been in breach in the past, the communications minister said Tuesday. The development came as satellite broadcaster Tohokushinsha Film Corp., where Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga s eldest son Seigo works, is set to have its license for a channel revoked in May after admitting it violated a rule under the law that requires less than 20 percent of voting rights in a broadcaster be controlled by foreign shareholders.
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