The vote counting of Presidential Election of U.S.A. began from 8 am. Japan time. NHK reported in live from New York on BS1 broadcast band. Mr. Tejima, Chief of their New York bureau, reported flash news on vote counting. But he was not accustomed with news broadcasts. The news came from U.S. TV Net, wirh which NHK made a contact for getting their news on vote counting. The news reported only total number of votes acquired by both candidates and total number of electors got by both camps. As the breaking news came infrequently, Mr. Tejima tried hard to kill time. But his efforts were not successful because audiences, who was expecting to see excitements of people in U.S.A., were bored. NHK reporters sent on-the-spot news from the candidates home grounds occasionally. But they never referred to voters or people there and just read up written notes. I felt the limit of Japanese mass media who are working in foreign countries.
By a bit after four o'clock in afternoon, he reported that it would take time before they got the results. While I left my seat for only a few minutes, he reported the victory of Governor Bush. A few minutes later, he closed the broadcast.
Immediately after that, I e-mailed a congratulation message to a friend of mine who is one of the election campaign staffs for Bush.
After I attended a dinner at a restaurant in Aoyama 4-chime, invited by young friends, I came back to my home about nine o'clock. I was surprised to see CNN news reporting that recount of votes will start tomorrow and its result would be available in tomorrow afternoon. Until the recount was finished, no one knew who would be the person to move to the White House.iAlthough I wished to see CAN during day time, I could see only pictures without sounds because I took off analog wiring when BS Digital TV adapter was installed. So I was obliged to tune to NHK. After I came back, I set the wiring for sounds. Thus I realized that evening's reports were wrong.)