On August 4th 2011 (same year as the Fukushima Accident), Tokai Television aired a highly inappropriate slide during a shopping show:
Rough translation:
Summer Holiday Giveaway
Iwate-produced Hitomebore Rice 10kg winners:
Suspicious Rice
Cesium-san
Suspicious Rice
Cesium-san
Contaminated Rice
Cesium-san
Video is here. The slide was apparently supposed to be used only for testing (which is bad enough). They later hand-wrote the panel:
This was aired exactly when the radioactive fallout was a public concern. It caused major outcry from viewers and rice farmers. The person responsible was fired.
Wikipedia article (Japanese)
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