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A Japanese man is angry with Japan's television company NHK. He is tired of so many English words on TV. Mr Hoji Takahashi, 71, says he is every time he an English loanword on NHK. He is NHK to court. He the TV company to him 1.4 million yen ($14,300) for his "mental distress". Mr Takahashi's lawyer the AFP news agency that Japanese TV is too "Americanised". Takahashi doesn't why NHK uses words from English instead of Japanese words. He said NHK should Japanese and not loanwords for vocabulary such as "toraburu" (trouble), "risuku" (risk) and "shisutemu" (system). He said this would protect Japanese culture.

Mr Takahashi a small group called "The Japanese as Important Association". He started it after he to NHK but no reply. He said NHK does not about his opinions. Takahashi said older Japanese people often have problems with the many loanwords on NHK. He said they trouble what announcers on NHK . He told reporters: “Young people can probably understand a lot of this stuff, but for older people like myself…I don’t know what it .” The Japanese language has thousands of words borrowed from English and other languages. It a special alphabet called katakana to write them. It also changes the pronunciation to with Japanese phonics.