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> "Super J Channel" TV Asahi News Burseau
Our director, Hitoshi Yokoyama is dispatched to the news bureau of TV Asahi; he is in charge of special news. His specialty is in excavating issues on environment and urban revitalization.
> Our TV program on town planning is now on a long term series
We have been working on pieces on various regional issues one of them being urban revitalization. Our keyword in the activity is "backstreet"; we've been highlighting on issues on condo developments, late night loitering of youth, bicycle parking, illegal waste dumping, bicycle commute, de-greening phenomenon and effect on environment, auto traffic in retail streets, graffiti, private police, dangerous train crossing etc. and focusing the question of "who makes the urban area".
On the other hand, we have a series of programs on food, looking from the viewpoint of consumers, on the issues of mis-indication of producing area, farmers concerning of food safety etc.
We also have programs focusing on regional differences in utility charges,
and subject on building a community where neighborhood people can
communicate regularly.
The series have been extended for over 15 years, the first of its kind in a TV news program in Japan and have won Broadcasting Association awards twice.
Some of the issues we focused on over the years.
- Night time loitering of youth, greeting campaign, swindling, graffiti, illegal parking on retail street
- Dangerous rail crossing and rerouting, unlawful entering of rail crossing, bridging over intersection
- Dangerous intersection (five way intersection, lack of signals, police involvement)
- Littering of cigarettes and trashes, (unlawful using private dumpster, prevention with high security)
- Traffic congestion in front of waste incinerator (resolved by adding extra road)
- Bad manner on shopping street (littering of chewed gum, fast crossing of bicycle, pushy sales)
- Private policing (measures against swindling and nagging sales, setting of 1400 private police box)
- Stray cats problem (fostering to private homes, putting name tags, prohibiting of feeding)
- Crows and starlings problem (netting hunting, and capturing and exporting for food)
- Foreign fish (blue gill, black bass, making them local specialty gourmet)
- Protecting of green (obtaining the ownership of mountain and forest to prevent resort developments)
- Plastic bottle, grease waste (recycling of plastics, making of soap with used oils)
- Meguro saury festival (collaboration with Miyako, Ishimaki , Kochi sudachimo, urban revitalization)
(Some of the issues have lead to revitalization of certain urban area)