nhk Wants to be more international

In addition to Japanese pubcaster nhk's annual personnel reshuffle - which saw Fumio Narashima appointed as head of international program development and Yukari Hayashi, formerly on loan to nhk affiliate mico as a buyer, return to nhk as a senior producer for documentary acquisitions - changes to the organizational structure were also recently made. To ease the decision-making process for international productions, the international program development divisions - including international coproduction, acquisition and international product development - have become part of the programming department. nhk's goal is to make itself more accessible for international programs.