NHK Special TV program hosted by Hiroshi HASEGAWA

Mr. HASEGAWA had his own In-depth News Program named "TO READ TOMORROW."


NHK Chief Commentator, Hiroshi HASEGAWA hosted 58 special news programs named "TO READ TOMORROW" for five years untill his death as shown in the following table. As each line eloquently tells you, Mr. HASEGAWA was an exceptionally erudite news commentator in Japan. His knowledge covered many political fields ranging from defense, foreign affairs, diplomacy and above all "international terrorism." When 9/11 events happened, he was one of the best and brightest commentators to be sought in Japan.

No.57 is the program in question. In the hour of the program, as one of the panelists, he told that there were no Jewish workers in WTC disaster victims on 9/11 according to his heavily corroborated reseach results. And he expressed his suspicion against the statement made by President Bush that the perpetrators are Arab terrorists.

In five years' series of this In-depth News Program, those except this N0.57 are all hosted Mr. HASEGAWA alone. In No.57 titled "New War and the World" there appeared eight panelists including himself. This exceptional style can be interpreted in some ways. True that 9/11 event was itself exceptional as a historical event. And the fact to be revealed  by Mr. HASEGAWA could be a bombshell remark. And some cospiracy theorists say that NHK tried to "dilute" or playdown  Mr. HASEGAWA's message. Yes, his message must have been the most shocking of all in the program. The possible implication of his remark would be tremendous. Mr. Hasegawa knew that best of all in the world at that time. He must have no doubt realized that the fact to be revealed by him might change the course of history. And at the same time the potential danger of revealing the truth would have come into his perspective. The fact that thousands of Jewish workers at WTC were absent that morning as if by common foreknowledge. And its implication and the potential influence of its revealing to the world.

That could have been the very reason Mr. HASEGAWA expressed his message as one of eight panelists. He himself must have preferred to "dilute" his message. He must have casually suggested the producer of "To Read Tomorrow" that they change the style of the program welcoming many panelists to disucss from as many angles. He must have thought that even if the fact in question is expressed incidentally from the mouth of one of the eight panelists, some viewers would surely catch the tremendous implication.

Five days after the airing of this program, Mr. HASEGAWA was found dead in NHK.

(No.58 shows that most of the programs were filmed beforehand for later broadcasting on schedule.)