NGT48 Assault Case

I wouldn't get my hopes up. This is Japan after all. Creator of Ruroni Kenshin was arrested for having a buttload of CP on his PC and he ended up having to only pay a 200,000 yen fine and apologize. Dude didn't even get his manga cancelled.

 

Some excerpts from my translation of the 7/18 summary https://saitowinterstar.com/archives/490:

• Murakumo Fuka announces her graduation. She will retire from the world of entertainment
  • [Please see @Cisalpine88 ‘s translation of her announcement
    http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/murakumo-fuka-mofuchan.11914/page-2#post-1612176]
  • https://i.imgur.com/hadoQHQ.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/l3LqQqV.jpg
    • I decided to graduate after talking with my parents at the start of the year, and was discussing this with managers since the end of February
    • Along with graduating from NGT48, I will be moving away from the world of entertainment and heading towards a new dream
    • My final handshake event will be August 11th, and my graduation performance will be at the end of August
    • There is nothing false about any of the sentiments I’ve sent out before now
    • It is difficult for anything to replace the important presence that NGT48 is for me
    • However, because of its importance, I think that there are also many parts of the current NGT48 that must change
    • It’s become clear to me over the last several months that it is certainly not going to be easy to change the group
    • Still, I don’t want to give up because there are people that want to see the appearance of NGT48 transformed
  • Link to the official NGT video
    • https://ngt48.com/news/detail/100003346
  • The Yahoo News top story
    • https://i.imgur.com/a7n4IPC.jpg
  • “Tomorrow, if you weren’t an AKB Group member…”
    • https://i.imgur.com/ynXmGfY.jpg
• It turns out Hayakawa was lying again about this　
  • Murakumo: “I decided to graduate at the start of this year, and have had discussions with managers since the end of February”
    • https://i.imgur.com/RXChsw6.jpg
  • March 22nd AKS Third Party Committee Press Conference (from THE PAGE, two paragraphs on page 3)
    • Asahi Shinbun reporter: “Are there other members that said they want to stop their activities, or members that have conveyed those sorts of thoughts?”
    • Manager Hayakawa: “At present, no such story like that has come to me”
    • https://i.imgur.com/pdnoMCn.jpg
    • https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190322-00010003-wordleaf-soci&p=3
• Manager Hayakawa tweets about Murakumo’s graduation. There is a flood of criticism
  • https://i.imgur.com/pwV7AmB.jpg
  • https://twitter.com/hayakawamaiko/status/1151773178038874117
• NGT-related articles
  • From Daily Sports: “NGT’s Murakumo Fuka announces graduation… the sole remaining member of the “Yamaguchi Maho faction” – Will retire from world of entertainment”
    • https://www.daily.co.jp/gossip/2019/07/18/0012526702.shtml
    • Over 1000 comments
      • https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190718-00000107-dal-ent
  • From Sponichi Annex: “(Full text of Murakumo Fuka’s NGT48 graduation comments) – “There are many parts of current NGT48 that must change””
    • https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190718-00000197-spnannex-ent
  • From Nikkan Sports: “NGT’s Murakumo Fuka retiring from the world of show business, graduation performance at the end of August”
    • https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190718-07180712-nksports-ent
  • From Tokyo Sports Web: “A Yamaguchi Maho supporter, NGT’s Murakumo Fuka announces graduation – “I’m going towards a new dream””
    • https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20190718-00000041-tospoweb-ent
• Article on Maho in tomorrow’s FRIDAY
  • The tragic idol prepared for a fresh start in a new world. Yamaguchi Maho’s “Tokyo Story” begins
  • https://i.imgur.com/WPbVvMr.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/SfxuRpS.jpg
• Nakamori Akio writes about the Hosei University lecture on the NGT problem in his regular column
  • https://i.imgur.com/oTcqs2d.jpg
  • “<Nakamori Akio’s Bath-house Messages> Serious wota reporter, Hot talk – Idol society and the NGT48 problem”
    • https://www.hokkaido-np.co.jp/article/325982

 

And what a creepily stage-managed announcement it was.

 

I wonder if management wake up every day and think "I really thought this would have gone away by now"

 

Yes and it will be stupid for them if they have indecent u18 material and bring it up in court

Since many user said if the perpetrator do have that picture AKS will do anything to stop that from going public, I just giving an example of what kind of information deserve to be sealed
Even if the picture itself never go public, member name in that picture should be public information

However AKS can ask the court to exclude the picture if it irrelevant to the case, this depend in what kind of case AKS make
I mean if this is Maho assault case, then it is irrelevant to bring the picture as evident to the court
If AKS in their case for example say "they are ruining our business by forcing members to...", the perpetrator have every right to bring the picture and say "just look at the picture, can you say that they're being forced?"

 

AKS has absolutely no case against them, because if AKS had properly handled this situation immediately after the attack, the fans and advertisers would have rallied behind NGT as a show of support for the good girls and it probably would have MADE AKS money. Instead they were stupid. In the end, losses are because of their own incompetence (if I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt - malice if not).

 

^There it is!! With the amount of media reports on the case that clearly asked the questions "why didn't aks support her?" and "why have aks let all these issue's escalate to this state", it makes it very difficult for AKS to even attempt to play victim since everything points to their own incompetence in the handling of the case. I honestly don't know how they expect the court to take pity on them looooool

 

I feel I'm making the mistake of going to this thread again, but I'm going to link a relevant TJMY video discussing Japanese media asking the "irrelevant" questions:

if the video does not show watch the video here

 

I don't really see a relevance or rather correlation between this incident and the NGT situation. In the press conference Yuta is talking about, people were emphasising with the woman holding the press conference as she was clearly feeling guilty about something that was out of her control and that she could not have prevented. Furthermore, it was held the same day as the accident happened and she was probably traumatised from having witnessed everything unfold.

I think it would be comparable if Maho had held a press conference on December 8 (or early the next day) and the media made her out to be the guilty party.

People are not angry at the media or saying that the questions they asked AKS / NGT's management in their press conference were irrelevant to the case. They are angry at AKS / NGT's management. And given that reaction (as they had that reaction even before the press conference), mngmt should have been aware of the situation they were in. Everyone wanted to know answers to the questions the media was asking in that specific press conference.

 

After the 56th single anmouncemnet make me think again.. did nakai acrually involve in mahohon case or not ??? Can someone please explain to me,because there is only homma hinata in the new senbatsu

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Nobody knows which girls are involved in the incident for sure... Hinata is a safe bet though because the former Team NIII girls are considered as the 'dark members' whereas former Team G seems relatively safe. I think Hinata is also the only member left that Maho has spoken positively about recently.

 

It looks like management has chosen the girl who will keep NGT afloat. A safe choice, but I can't help but feel that Hinata deserves better than NGT.

 

Well i think nakai rika heraelf have an interesting personality and i dont this she is as what people said. Im just hoping that nakai and hinata will have better future

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I think they are doing this just to prevent damage and I would not be surprised if management bring back Rika and Yuka, for the next senbatsu.

 

Wasn't there already a basis that fan backlash may occur if Yuka is included in the line up? Like there was this cosmetics or fashion stuff something wherein Yuka was supposed to be one of the endorsers/models but was removed due to public backlash?

Unless things have mellowed down a lot by the next single and Yuka's inclusion won't cause a negative PR for the mother ship, I don't think it will be a wise move to include her.

As for Nakai, I'm not sure what's the public sentiment on her.

 

Rikahime might be favored by management but not as much, she has plenty of antis and she's not known to be quiet and compliant. By merits, Hinata is both safe and financially favorable, and if they feel like they can't completely pariah NGT a Mahohon-approved girl is the best choice to not stir the waters. They'd call more attention if they chose Rikahime or Ogiyuka, or no one at all. At least that's the way I see it.

 

Rika has the problem with her boyfriend (ex?) apparently he is friend with the assault group, now I don't trust much on management doing wise moves so...

 

AKS owe an impressive gift basket to Yoshimoto for getting the media off their backs

 

Seems Inaoka and friends were removed from the area by security before the NGT48 performance yesterday

edit:
Some eyewitness accounts.
https://twitter.com/morning_sun7/status/1157443375164821505
https://twitter.com/gogoaki2010/status/1157451983613124611