TOKYO —

Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) on Tuesday apologized to Aizu-wakamatsu City in Fukushima Prefecture for distorting the history of the city in a quiz program broadcast on Feb 16.

According to TBS, in the program, the answer to a question on why Japan’s feudal government abandoned Castle Tsurugajou in the city was because of bad sanitation issues for enteruria. Aizu-wakamatsu City objected to this answer and repeatedly requested TBS to broadcast a correction.

A TBS announcer apologized by saying, “We are very sorry for offending many people. We apologize from the bottom of our hearts.”

5 Comments

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  Hughgarse at 03:06 PM JST - 9th April

  why would you feel the need to distort the history in the first place.

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  scottff at 07:19 AM JST - 10th April

  Has anyone on this thread heard of enteruria ?? Not in any dictionary...

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  WhatJapanThinks at 07:48 AM JST - 10th April

  It seems to be excreta, but as you say, there seems to be little use of the word in English.

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  GrouchyGaijin at 09:41 AM JST - 10th April

  I'm reminded of Jack Nicholson in "A few good men"..."Aizu-wakamatsu, you can't handle the truth!"

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  curlygene at 03:58 PM JST - 10th April

  you'll all have noticed the wording of the apology, of course: “We are very sorry for offending many people.", not "We were mistaken." So it seems they haven't issued a correction at all, not according to this article, at least.

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