Tokyo District Court orders NHK to disclose recordings of management committee meetings. In a lawsuit over the disclosure of the minutes of NHK's management committee admonishing the then-chairman in connection with a program that featured Japan Post Insurance's inappropriate sales of insurance.
About 110 people, including university professors emeritus, said that the detailed circumstances should be revealed, and demanded that NHK fully disclose the contents of the management committee meeting at the time and the recorded data. The court then ordered NHK and Chairman Morishita to pay 20,000 yen to each plaintiff.