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.)

     

NHK pundit dead in suspected fall (Japan Times) Oct. 18, 2001

Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001


NHK pundit dead in suspected fall

An employee of NHK who served as a commentator on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States was found dead Monday in Tokyo after an apparent fall from a building, NHK said Wednesday.

Hiroshi Hasegawa, 55, was found on the ground near the NHK broadcasting center in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Monday morning and was pronounced dead soon after, according to the national public television network.

Police believe he fell to his death and are conducting an investigation, NHK said.

Hasegawa joined NHK in 1971 and became a commentator in 1997 after working in the network's political affairs section and serving as manager of its Bangkok bureau.

He had served as a senior commentator since 1998 and appeared Oct. 10 on a special program on the terrorist attacks, according to NHK.

NHK commentator found dead outside company site in Tokyo (Kyodo)

 

NHK commentator found dead outside company site in Tokyo
TOKYO, Oct. 17, 2001 Kyodo

An employee of Japan Broadcasting Corp. NHK Nihon Hoso Kyokai (Japanese Broadcasting Association) who served as a commentator on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States was found dead Monday in Tokyo, NHK said Wednesday.

Hiroshi Hasegawa, 55, was found collapsed on the ground near the NHK broadcasting centerThe NHK Broadcasting Center, in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Monday morning and was pronounced dead soon after, according the national public television network.

The police believe he fell to his death and are conducting an investigation into the incident, NHK said.

Hasegawa joined NHK in 1971 and became a commentator in 1997 after working in the network's political affairs section and serving as manager of its Bangkok Bureau.

He served as a senior commentator since 1998 and appeared Oct. 10 on a special program on the terrorist attacks, according to NHK.

Possibility of a Murder Case

NHK Hiroshi HASEGAWA's Death may be a Murder Case


The police decided the case as a suicide without performing autopsy.During the embargo of two days in question until the final release, no autopsy of his body was performed, which was unthinkable for a case of unnatural death. No investigation as a possible murder case was done.  Normally “a death from a fall” has three possibilities, i.e., suicide, accident or murder.

"A death from fall" has the following three possibilities:

1)  a suicide

2)  an accident

3)  a murder

 The police decided that his death was a suicide ruling out both the second and the third possibilities, without even performing autopsy. The police even denied the possibility of accident. They allowed only the first possibility, "suicide," or "killing himself by jumping." But no notes were left behind and no motives were given by anybody. He had no medical records of depression or mental instability. Yet the police decided his death as "a suicide." Whence came this forcible conclusion?

Mr. Hasegawa was found lying at the bottom of NHK Broadcasting Center building. But no details about the first discoverer, the exact place and the situation of the discovery were given.

If it was a murder, there are again, three possibilities. The first scenario was that Mr. Hasegawa was forced to fall from high window of the building “by force.” The second is that he was killed in his room and his body was fallen from a high window. And the third is that he was killed somewhere else and his body was brought to the bottom of the building. Murderers often try to make their crime appear “suicide.” The above three scenarios all contain such possibility of faking as “killing himself by jumping.”

An apparent "death from a fall" as a murder case has the following four scenarios:

1)  the victim was fallen to death "by force" from a high window

2)  the victim was killed on the high floor and the body was fallen from a high window

3)  the victim had been killed somewhere else and the body was brought to the bottom of the high building 

4)  the victim had been killed somewhere else and the body was brought up to his room to be dropped from the window

Despite such malicious efforts, autopsy would usually reveal almost everything about the truth. But this was the very thing that the police wouldn’t do. The Japanese police didn't do the most essential work to clarify the cause of unnatural death. They are to blame for this grave negligence. But why didn't they perform autopsy? Were they really so lazy? Can’t we imagine a situation where they were "unable" to do autopsy? One possibility is that there was a message beyond the law from above, far above the Japanese police, to the effect that autopsy must not be done. Otherwise it would be extremely difficult to explain such unusual negligence on the part of the police. There might have been some frustration even in the police at that time.

Oct.17, 2001 Asahi Shimbun: Evening Edition

  A disproportionately small article for "unnatural death of a famous TV commentator" Just compare the article with the other upper and larger ones, none of which contains death. The article reporting Mr.HASEGAWA's strange death was entitled to the uppermost and the biggest space on the frontpage. This unusual, deceptive coverage is not limited to Asahi Shimbun. All of Japanese major newspapers treated the event likewise af if by common consent. This unfair media coverage calls for explanation.