Recently, the Japanese entertainment industry has exploded a dose of fierce material. The president of a well-known Japanese agency was arrested on suspicion of molesting his 12-year-old teen idol.
It happened last May when the 12-year-old girl went to the company's studio in Tokyo's Shinagawa ward to take promotional photos in order to become an idol. The president of the company asked her to measure the size on the spot on the grounds that she had set the costume for the singing at the time of the ceremony. And under the pretext that in order to be accurate, she needed to be naked on her upper body and measured her with his own hands.
After returning home that day, the deeply frightened girl told her family what had happened, and her angry parents immediately reported the case to the police. In order to grasp more reports, the media also specially inquired and collected evidence from other employees of the company. According to a female employee, the president also shot at a 16-year-old idol a few years ago. Later, he was also arrested, but because the girl later claimed that she was not harmed and took the initiative to withdraw the lawsuit, the matter was closed.
This news report of the entertainment industry immediately caused an uproar on the Internet, and many netizens have said that the confusing news of the Japanese entertainment circle in the past two years has emerged in an endless stream, which makes people sweat for the safety of the artists under the major agencies. And netizens will have this kind of worry, it is not for no reason.
At the end of November 2020, 24-year-old Japanese actor Masaru Takasugi released a statement through the media that he was about to quit The Ganli Firm, in which he stressed that he would not renew his contract after the expiration of his 21-year contract. The morning drama work facilitated by the company's matchmaking for him will also resign, and in the future, he will set up a firm in his personal name and start again.
At the age of 24, how much courage does it take to support this determination to quit the society and go it alone? In fact, long before Takasugi Makoto retired from the society, many gossip media expressed concern about his situation. This is due to the fact that in 2020, the female agent of Ganli Firm was made public for overly meddling in his private life.
According to insiders, the female agent who took him was responsible for Takasugi's work and diet before his debut. In the process, the female agent also developed more personal feelings for him, and even claimed that even Takasugi's underwear had to be washed by hand. In order to prevent him from having contact with other female artists, the agent also pushed off a lot of external work privately, which also seriously affected the development of Takasugi Makoto in the circle.
Another female agent of Ganli Law Firm was also fired because she interfered in the private life of another male artist, Kenshi Okada, as a girlfriend, and paid too much attention to and controlled his social relations.
Not only that, nao bow Okada, the female president of Ganli Office, scared the female artist Zhiying to live with her in early 2020 and scared the other party to quit the club.
Afterwards, many netizens found that female artists including Masaki Horikita and Mirei Kiritani, a subsidiary of the agency, became famous soon after they chose to marry and have children, in order to avoid same-sex harassment from the female president.
Also last year, the entertainment weekly "Weekly Wenchun" broke the news of another agency president committing a sexual crime against its artists.
A mr. A, who was once an idol, contacted reporters to tell the story of his being molested by former management company executive director Tsuyoshi Osawa. In order to show the ugly face of the other party, A provided the chat history of the two.
As a member of the company's idol group, A considered quitting the club in 2018 due to member conflicts. At that time, Osawa, who considered himself an elder, solved many work problems for him. After that, he said that he had an absolute right to speak in the company and could tutor and cultivate him individually.
In order to control A, Osawa invited him to the apartment for a party. In the apartment, Tsuyoshi Osawa not only molested A, but also took nude photos of him as a coercive tool. Since then, Osawa's sexual harassment of A has escalated, not only frequently sending explicit messages, but also picking up and dropping hands on him in the company's bathroom and taxi to the workplace.
For the sake of PUA and sealing, Osawa just raised A's monthly salary from 130,000 yen to 300,000 yen. The extra 170,000 yen per month is counted as Tsuyoshi Osawa's "personal compensation."
In the years when he was pestered by Osawa, A has been talking about his troubles with his friends around him. Finally, with the encouragement of friends, A stood up two years after quitting the society to prove Tsuyoshi Osawa's misdeeds. In addition to getting yourself justice, you should also consider the young people who enter the company and be fully prepared. A's righteous act was sent to the hot search by Japanese netizens, in addition to the fact that there are too many elements of this sexual harassment incident, but also because Osawa's influence in the Japanese entertainment circle is also extraordinary.
Watanabe Entertainment Co., Ltd., in which he is a senior executive, has a certain national base in Japan, including its artists such as Shizun Jun, Kashiwagi Yuki, and Nakao Masaki. Although Tsuyoshi Osawa was dismissed after this incident broke out, there are still many fans who are quite uneasy about the environment in which they work and live in Aidou.
In addition to the above cases, the Japanese entertainment industry has never lacked such dark news. But unlike the victims of the last century, artists today will bravely stand up when they suffer unequal treatment, not only to defend their legitimate rights and interests, but also to avoid more people from being poisoned by this. Therefore, from this point of view, the news that can be broken in the Japanese entertainment circle is not only a shake for the upper echelons of power, but also a challenge to all the perpetrators.
In 2019, Shiori Ito finally got the notice of victory in the sexual assault case after many tribulations. Her success has also taught many equally fortunate victims that this society should not be affected by deep-rooted gender biases, conservative morals, class theories, etc. Stand up bravely and you will have the same victory. As Shiori Ito writes in her book: A drop of water doesn't change anything, but when it comes together, it can form a tsunami.