William runs into a little local difficulty during Japan tour

The Duke of Cambridge’s tour of Japan was embroiled in fresh controversy last night amid criticism of his plans to meet a nationalist broadcasting chief who has revisionist views on the country’s conduct in the Second World War.

This morning Prince William will tour the studios of NHK, Japan’s equivalent of the BBC. He will visit the newsroom and the set of a samurai drama, escorted by one of the most controversial figures in Japanese public life, the NHK president, Katsuto Momii.

Mr Momii has been accused of turning the country’s most respected news organisation into a mouthpiece of the