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

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