Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK makes a program about foreigners living in Japan

Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK will air this week two programs about foreigners living in Japan. I'm one of those foreign guys they will introduce to their Japanese audience. Why me? Basically because at the first Expo2005 football tournament they were looking for people who followed the Japanese language classes, and they got my name this way... NHK collected a lot of material in the past week by shooting at parties, at people home's, at last week expo2005 football tournament, etc.

I personally was being interviewed and videotaped during my second Japanese language class on Saturday morning, and afterwards when I was working in the Belgian pavilion. Today they wanted to see where Belgian staff lives, and what we do on a day off. So they started shooting this morning in the appartment at 10.00 am. After that, we took a cab to Nagoya where we visited the Osu Kannon Temple.

The thing with television is that you really don't know what they will show from all the shootage and interviews they took. People interested in the program, should watch:

- Wednesday the 25. of May somewhere between 18.00 and 19.00 - a five minute show report called 'Hot evening'.
- Friday the 27. of May at 19.30 - a 25 minutes program called 'Navigation' about foreigners in Japan.

For the folks who won't be able to watch the program - for instance because they live in Belgium - I shot this videoblog immediately after we left the appartment and took a cab to the Osu Kannon Temple. And as an appology about the video: yes, I know that my English is not my best foreign language. :(



Watch the video (9,4 MB): "NHK tv video shooting evaluation"