By Barrier Free Japan
September 4 2024
Paris & Tokyo – Japan won its first Paralympic gold medal in wheelchair rugby Monday after seeing off the United States 48-41 in Paris, with the nation adding two badminton gold on the day to make it five total at the ongoing games.
The Chunichi Shimbun reported that on August 30th, businessman Hiroyuki Nishimura (47), known as “Hiroyuki”, updated his X (formerly Twitter), giving his personal opinion regarding Nippon Television’s “24-hour TV”, which began its broadcast on August 31st.
Posting about the Paralympics, “Hiroyuki” said:
“If they’re going to deal with people with disabilities on 24-hour TV, they should broadcast the Paralympics…”, referring to the Paris Paralympics that began on the 28th.
The 24-hour program is a charity program that has been broadcast every summer since 1978. There have been complaints that it has become stale and that it is “hypocrisy”, and last year, it was discovered that a senior executive at Nihonkai Television had embezzled donations. The broadcast is being scrutinized more than usual.
Comments from followers included, “Isn’t it because they wouldn’t make a profit from that?”, “That’s not charity, it’s hypocrisy”, and “They say love saves the earth, but…their actions are so superficial.”
There were also opinions about the treatment of the Paralympics, such as, “They aren’t broadcasting the Paralympics on TV at all”, and “Kids who were excitedly watching the Olympics are saying, ‘Why aren’t the Paralympics on TV?’ I can’t explain it…”
Episode notes:
‘Paralympics: Japan wins wheelchair rugby, 2 badminton golds in Paris’:
‘ “They should broadcast the Paralympics” Japanese businessman criticises lack of broadcasting of Paris Paralympics’:
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