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A Japanese man is angry with Japan's television company NHK. He is of hearing so many English words on TV. Mr Hoji Takahashi, 71, says he is every time he hears an English loanword on NHK. He is taking NHK to . He wants the TV company to pay him 1.4 million yen ($14,300) for his " distress". Mr Takahashi's lawyer told the AFP news that Japanese TV is too "Americanised". Takahashi doesn't understand why NHK uses words from English of Japanese words. He said NHK should use Japanese and not for vocabulary as "toraburu" (trouble), "risuku" (risk) and "shisutemu" (system). He said this would help protect Japanese .

Mr Takahashi started a small called "The Treat Japanese as Important Association". He started it after he wrote to NHK but got no . He said NHK does not care about his . Takahashi said older Japanese people often have with the many loanwords on NHK. He said they have understanding what on NHK say. He told reporters: “Young people can probably understand a lot of this , but for older people like myself…I don’t know what it means.” The Japanese language has of words borrowed from English and other languages. It uses a special called katakana to write them. It also changes the pronunciation to with Japanese phonics.

 


 
 

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