Spreading the rumor that "Chinese people eat crows," a Japanese media program is found to have violated media ethics.

This March, a Japanese TV variety show used malicious editing to spread the rumor that "Chinese people eat crows," causing a negative public opinion impact. On October 21 local time, the review organization "Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization (BPO)" released a report, stating that the program's approach "violated media ethics."

On March 24, in the program "Starting from Monday, Stay Up Late," a Chinese woman interviewed expressed in Japanese, "You can't see crows in China" and "Because they are eaten, you rarely see them."

However, the interviewee later stated that the program content severely distorted her original intention. The program admitted that the woman had never said "Chinese people eat crows" and issued an apology. The president of Japan Television, Fukuoka Hiroshi, also said that this approach was "very inappropriate."

BPO confirmed through investigation that the director responsible for street interviews, in order to make the program "more humorous and interesting," arbitrarily spliced and edited the statements of Chinese interviewees in different contexts subjectively.

BPO emphasized that the situation of the program "although it cannot be considered as prejudice against other countries, it clearly lacks respect for the feelings of people from other countries."

The timeline provided by the Sankei News shows that after the incident attracted attention, the program "Starting from Monday, Stay Up Late" continued to air normally without mentioning the matter. It announced on May 12 on its official website that it would resume the street interview segment.

In September this year, Japan Television staff said that they would continue to produce the program. "On one hand, the company has taken measures internally to prevent similar incidents from happening again and confirmed improvements in training and inspection systems. On the other hand, the program still receives high support from the audience."

On October 21, the program "Starting from Monday, Stay Up Late" issued a statement on its official website, stating that it took the opinions raised by BPO on that day seriously.

"We will work to strengthen mechanisms to prevent similar incidents from happening again, enhance training for employees and production teams, and apply these lessons and improvements in future program production," the statement read.

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