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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Feb 19th, 2021 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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Program Director
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Tokyo
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stability
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have a strong effect on people.
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It would be forced to scale back in the future.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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0.0
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3.0
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2.0
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3.0
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3.0
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4.0
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3.0
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7762
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Open
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It's good for you if you want stability.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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20.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Dec 9th, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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Product Packer
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Frankfort, IN
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Nhk
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Good money and good people nice break room too
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Long hours and kind of hard and tiring
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0.0
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2.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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7762
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Oct 2nd, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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IOS Software Developer
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Vancouver, BC
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Hard work, good salary, old culture.
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Great salary, Welfare, have big projects
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So busy, so old and out of date culture.
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0.0
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3.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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7762
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Sep 21st, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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Graduate Student
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Kyoto
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Good company
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Good Pay, Good people, Good environment
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Old structure
busy when we had a disaster
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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4.0
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3.0
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4.0
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3.0
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7762
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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PART_TIME
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No
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Yes
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0.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Jul 23rd, 2020 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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Associate Producer
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Los Angeles, CA
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Depends on who's your boss
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- A lot of experience
- A lot of travel
- Can be really fun
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- No room for advancement
- It's awful if you have an empty suit as a boss
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0.0
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3.0
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3.0
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2.0
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2.0
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2.0
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2.0
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7762
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Jun 19th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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Producer
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United States
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USA
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The flock of sheep - They are bureaucrats, not journalists.
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Sometimes, there are opportunities to meet household names. No smell marijuana.
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If you are interested in conservative, old-fashioned Japanese cultures and look for an entry-level position, you might work but “limited time only” Otherwise, you will be wasted your time. The work environment is not global level- antiquated Japanese level: not only low paying but also endless work, a few paid vacations; feel like a slave. They are very demanding and you may have to wear many hats. Use everything in the company as much as you can, then go to the next place. It is quite hard to maintain work-life balance and keep your motivation at this type of the company. They live in their own tiny world. Their style is completely opposite of "side with the weak and crush the strong"
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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-1.0
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DISAPPROVE
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0.0
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1.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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1.0
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1.0
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7762
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Open
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Look out the window. Don't be too afraid of take risks and believe local staff a little more.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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2.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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May 15th, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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United Kingdom
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GBR
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Decent Employer, Few Advancement Opportunities for Local Staff
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Decent pay, and the opportunity to cover a range of interesting stories. Colleagues are also supportive. Good window into media.
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No advancement prospects, little training,
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0.0
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3.0
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3.0
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3.0
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2.0
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3.0
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2.0
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7762
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Open
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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4.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Feb 3rd, 2019 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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Associate Producer
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New York, NY
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Ups and Downs: Define Your Goals Clearly
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The job can certainly be a big boost to your career if you clearly think about what you can gain during your time here. There are two types of people that usually take this job, those following the "Japan path" and those following the "Journalism path." NHK is a huge brand name that will stay with you for your entire life if following the Japan route. For those more interested in journalism, not so much, but it’s still a big organization that will give you a boost.
While working here you can expect to travel quite a bit around the USA, at least for a few days out of every month. You'll gain experience researching topics in a wide variety of areas that might be unfamiliar to you and will burn away any shyness that you may have in contacting/interviewing strangers. Japanese reporters are very devoted and you can learn skills from them that will stay with you in your future career.
You'll learn how the hot dogs of news stories are made from start to finish and the way its done here is pretty parallel to the way its done in US outlets. You'll have the opportunity to improve or learn the Japanese language. You'll have at least a few chances while here to report for NHK World and these clips will help you in the future if you're pursuing a career in journalism. My ratio has been around four of these per year.
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During my job interview, I was asked where I saw myself in five years in the company. I replied by saying that I want nothing more than to have a company where I feel can devote my entire life and heart to, and turned this into a question to them of where it is possible to be in five years. Their response was point blank: nowhere. There is no ladder in this company for foreigners. This position, they told me, was designed to be a stepping-stone to another company.
Japanese companies are still very ethnically insular and NHK is no exception. Your job here is basically to serve as an assistant for a Japanese reporter and there is no pathway for you to one day become a reporter or real part of the team as they are. In this sense, NHK maintains a permanent underclass to support their “real” employees who are paid several times more than you are, have their housing subsidized by the company, and are assured that their entire family is living comfortably. Your pay here is barely enough to survive and if you find out how much more the respected staff here are making you will feel sick to your stomach.
If you are not ethnically Japanese, you can expect many times where you will feel left out and that you are an outsider here. NHK has no intention of being a truly internationally company.
On the other hand, if you are full or half Japanese descent, I would warn you that you will be taken advantage of in ways that foreign staff are not. This is the case with one of my coworkers and it’s truly horrible. The management will give you lip service about personal responsibility and loyalty and you will be expected to work much harder than your foreign counterparts, but will still only ever be a second-class employee to them.
NHK is by technicality not state-media (funding is from subscribers, who by chance are required by law to subscribe if they have a TV or anything capable of watching NHK (like a smartphone) in their house). As a journalist I often felt that the topics that we reported on were tame and purposely avoided anything that would criticize Japan or prompt any real thought. People who try to push the envelope like former NHK reporter Hiroko Kuniya are pushed out. If NHK does report on anything that portrays Japan in a negative light, It feels as if it is only doing so because it would be criticized by other Japanese media they we didn’t.
Another problem with NHK that is rooted in its funding issue is that it has a 0% incentive to innovate because its funding is taken care of. The only thing that it has to do to survive is to not anger the Japanese government. NHK feels like a time capsule in terms of the lack of innovation and presence on the internet.
Reporting on stories, NHK often has a very clear idea of the point that they’d like to prove through their story, and then will reverse-engineer the story by finding all of the people that they need to interview and the scenes they need to make this a reality. It is the opposite of what real reporting is. The point that they try to prove is in their minds already there, and is often at odds with reality.
I thought that NHK World would be a pathway where I would have greater opportunities for employment, respect, and responsibility, but by design it isn’t. Unlike NHK, NHK World is almost fully funded by the Japanese government and because of this can never truly be a real media outlet. The purpose of NHK World is simply to serve as a PR program for tourists wishing to visit Japan.
I don’t mean to be too doom and gloom about this position. There are certainly things to gain while here, but it isn’t a place where you should hang around waiting to see where you’ll float to within the company because the answer, by design, is nowhere. Define your goals, think of where you’d like to be after this, work hard to help the company, and then pull out to get to where you want to go.
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-1.0
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NEGATIVE
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0.0
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NEUTRAL
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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3.0
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3.0
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2.0
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4.0
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1.0
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1.0
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2.0
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7762
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Open
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If you want productive employees, you need to create happy employees. The way to do this is to give them a reason to want to work for the company besides affixing the NHK brand name to their resume. One big way to accomplish this would be to allow Associate Producers more opportunities to pitch and produce stories of their own so they can feel that they are investing their hearts in the job and are more than just servants. Giving associate producers the opportunity to pursue one story of their own per month in the form of either a written article for NHK World or a NHK World video or radio piece, for example, would give their lives a whole new dimension of meaning, would increase the amount of content on NHK World, and would help eliminate the high turnover rate of Associate Producers.
Whenever possible, it would be helpful to reflect on whether or not all employees have an opportunity to fully invest themselves in the company, and if they are being treated as equals. Associate Producers often feel left out here and that they are second-class citizens of the company. It should be of no shock to you that they decide to leave the company when you tell them from the beginning that the only way to grow is to leave the company for another one. It is getting increasingly difficult to find qualified and experienced individuals who will work like this. It is possible to improve NHK without making a drastic change in the DNA of the company. The rewards of inclusiveness will far outweigh the costs.
One final point that I’ll make is that the pay of the Associate Producers is simply not enough and is certainly not commensurate with what is expected out of them. Employees should not have to rely on overtime to earn a decent living wage. I saw documents detailing the pay gap between the Japanese reporters and the Associate Producers while here and the disparity is jaw-dropping.
This position is exploitative by design, and the same is true of the freelance cameramen and the employees of the “contracted companies” that work within the same office of NHK and work for them as their sole client. NHK would be a stronger company without this kind of exploitation.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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Yes
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2.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Mar 21st, 2018 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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United States
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USA
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Producer
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Working in one of the organization's bureaus in the US will give you great experience producing television news. You'll pitch stories, arrange shoots and interview newsmakers. You'll travel across the country and the world. There are some opportunities for producers to appear on camera, as well.
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There aren't many avenues for advancing past being a producer. After a period of time, you'll likely want to apply your skills somewhere else.
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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0.0
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NO_OPINION
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1.0
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4.0
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3.0
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4.0
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3.0
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4.0
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3.0
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7762
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Open
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Emphasize training and development for producers, i.e., the Americans and other non-Japanese workers, who, for the most part aren't going to be climbing up the ladder in Tokyo, but who could be well positioned, after a stint at NHK, to work at US media outlets and other companies.
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0.0
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[]
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REGULAR
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No
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No
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0.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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|
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private:nhkworld
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https://www.glassdoor.com?employer_id=7762
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Aug 7th, 2017 12:00AM
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Open
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Open
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NHK
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United Kingdom
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GBR
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Best Job
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The company has great values
Up to date with everything
Team is very friendly and supportive
Amazing work/ life balance
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no cons as i was very happy working for them
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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POSITIVE
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1.0
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APPROVE
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0.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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7762
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Open
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0.0
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[]
|
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No
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No
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0.0
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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Mar 25th, 2021 09:17PM
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NHK World
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