Our immediate management objective is to ensure that digital BS broadcasting makes smooth progress after its launch in December 2000. Our target is to have ten million households register for the service within one thousand days. At the core of digital BS broadcasting is Hi-Vision, a technology that NHK has been working on since 1964, the year of the Tokyo Olympics. NHK will remain unwaveringly committed to fair, accurate, and prompt reporting, with consideration for privacy and human rights. We shall expand our international and regional services and, at the same time, aim for broadcasting services that are more sensitive to the needs of the elderly and the disabled.
Broadcasting is a part of culture.
Based on that awareness, we will urge every member of the NHK staff to strive for self-improvement. At NHK we will keep doing our very best in all of these endeavors, and we seek your continued understanding and support.