EXCLUSIVE : Nippon TV , the Japanese broadcaster, is stepping up its unscripted business in the U.S. and has hired former ITV America exec Nick Ower to help. Ower joins as director of development and sales, unscripted. He joins after nearly ten years at the Love Island and Hell’s Kitchen producer. He will report to Tom Miyauchi, Head of Nippon TV’s L.A. Business Office. Ower has been tasked with driving the company’s format strategy across North America and Latin America and will represent Nippon TV and Gyokuro Studio’s unscripted catalogue to broadcasters, streamers, and production partners across the region. The hope is that he will expand Nippon’s reach in the States and Gyokuro Studio’s original development, working with partners. Watch on Deadline Gyokuro Studios, which is Nippon’s inhouse studio, is behind formats such as social experiment Majority Rules , family game show  The Balance  and culinary competition show  Cooking Rush!.…