A few days ago, the news of Hanyu's divorce frequently appeared in the hot news of countries around the world. After only 105 days of marriage, it ended in divorce, which can't help but make the people who eat melons curious: What happened to such a flash marriage?
For viewers who are not familiar with winter sports, he is just a Japanese beautiful man who often appears in hot searches, and some people even mistake him for an idol star. In fact, Hanyu is the most outstanding figure skater of all time in winter sports, starting with a junior Grand Slam and the youngest Grand Slam winner, Hanyu has gone on to win a second consecutive Olympic men's figure skating title (the last time this was 66 years ago), a men's figure slam (a gold medal in all competitions he can compete) and other impressive achievements. Since turning professional, he has held Prologue, Tokyo Dome GIFT, and RE_PRAY solo ice shows, and is the only figure skater who can hold ice shows on his own, and he also serves as the chief director and producer. As a figure skating sport, the GOAT, Hanyu has always been an insurmountable wall for his contemporaries.
However, Hanyu Yuzuru, a two-time Olympic champion, a top athlete, and a national icon, is actually just a commoner.
In a sense, Hanyu is a "freak". In the era when traffic is king, as one of the most commercially valuable athletes in the world, he has never signed a brokerage company, almost no commercial activities, and only accepted a few minimum endorsements to support his life (most of which are his daily products). After changing careers, he only skated in his life, and even for the convenience of local juniors, he could only practice at the ice rink late every night, living a life of ascetics that is rare in modern society.
insisted on not signing with an agency, and did not defect to the factional docks within the Japan Ice Association like other figure skaters, and stayed in a small place in Sendai for many years without "going to Beijing", so that although he is already a well-known sports superstar in Japan and even the world, he is still a "common man" from the perspective of the social class in Japan, with no background.
As we all know, after World War II, the United States reorganized Japan's political system, making Japan's legal system in line with Europe and the United States, and on the surface it seems to be very "free and democratic". In the last century, this revolutionary system did break down social classes and create a large number of new upstarts, but after decades of continuous precipitation, its social structure has long returned to the pre-war pyramid form.
According to Japanese economist Toshihiro Tachibana's book "The Difference Society", Japan's gap (social and regional class differences) is widening. Behind the high income and high consumption levels of the Japanese people, the prosperity of international cities, and the modern business model are the enormous pressure to survive, the large number of unemployed and homeless people, the entrenchment and inequality of classes, the shrinking social safety net, and the disadvantaged groups living in its shadow.
For example, for young people in Japan, except for a small number of emerging industries such as the Internet, the upward channel is almost blocked, and it has become the norm for children to succeed their fathers, the sons of fish shops still sell fish, and the daughters of flower shops still have to sell flowers. The phenomenon of the second and third generations in Japan's political, physical, and literary circles is very serious, the most typical is the presidential election of the Liberal Democratic Party after Prime Minister Koizumi, and as of June 2006, five candidates were elected, namely "Yasutaro Agaki" (i.e., Taro Aso, Yoshiichi Tanigaki, Yasuo Fukuda, Shinzo Abe, and Taro Kono), whose fathers or grandfathers were all members of the Diet. "Education is the key to correcting class rigidity", but on the other hand, "a person's ability to receive a good education depends largely on the class, occupation and income of his parents".
Unlike this normal state of "dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and mouse sons can make holes", Hanyu Yuzuru has already won two purple ribbon medals and a national honor award for his Olympic hegemony at the age of 23. It is not surprising that his impressive achievements match the accolades he has won. But for the powerful Japanese society, this kind of common people rely on their own hard work to achieve proud results, so as to break through the way of class rise is obviously against their unspoken rules, so Hanyu Yuzuru has long become a thorn in their side, a thorn in the flesh.
The first thing to do is the Japan Ice Association, which manages the Japanese figure skating and speed skating business, and although the Japan Skating Association is nominally an industry association, its essence is actually a place for the second generation of powerful people to brush up their qualifications. Hanyu's number one opponent, Seiko Hashimoto, the former president of the Ice Hockey Association and now the Olympic Minister, comes from a Hokkaido political family, and his grandfather was also the president of the Hokkaido Mainichi Shimbun.
As the second generation of the magnates, Hashimoto is indeed hand-eyed, not only prosperous in official luck, but even after the scandal of cheating with his subordinate male figure skaters broke out at the Sochi Winter Olympics, not only did he not receive any punishment, but he was able to arrange for the Japanese Ice Association to quickly make up a number of press releases to clear his name and the man, and urgently arranged for the other party to retire and go abroad to calm the situation. Under the repeated operations, Hashimoto, who was full of scandals, actually had a smooth political career, and even rose all the way up, and she can also be seen in the Dentsu corruption case at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. (In 2020, due to Yoshiro Mori's discriminatory remarks against women, Hashimoto took over as the president of the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee, but her resume clearly stated that she was "Abe, Tanigaki faction", and after the new president representing women came to power, he had to give himself a "political teacher" every night) Yoshiro Mori called, and repeatedly made statements to stand in line with Yoshiro Mori, and there was no opposition to Yoshiro Mori's discriminatory remarks against women, although it was a female official who claimed to represent women to come to power, but in fact Hashimoto still put the control of Toao in the hands of the misogynistic Yoshiro Mori. ）
Hashimoto and a male figure skater kiss at a celebration party in Sochi
Hashimoto supported Yoshiro Mori's remarks
After Hashimoto stepped down as president of the Ice Association, Akihisa Nagashima, vice chairman of the Ice Association who took over as Hashimoto, was a pure politician who knew nothing about ice skating; as a far-right politician, after he came to power, in addition to repeatedly expressing pro-US and anti-China political views, he also openly favored American athletes in his work, and publicly expressed instructions in support of American athletes on many occasions. Since he took the stage, it has become customary for Japanese judges to give points to American players. At the Beijing Winter Olympics that ended last year, the Japanese referee gave the American and his own faction a crazy extra point, but Hanyu Yuzuru, who led the difficulty coefficient of the free skate, went crazy to sixth place (the Japanese judge was the only referee from all the countries at the Winter Olympics to put Hanyu out of the top five in the free skate), and it can be said that the figure skating podium has become a tribute to the United States by Japanese politicians.
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Within the Japan Ice Association, the path taken by Hanyu, who was born into a family of scholars (Hanyu's grandfather and father were both teachers) and achieved proud results through personal efforts, was incompatible with the second and third generations of those who started with qualifications. On the one hand, Hanyu is in such a bad industry environment, he himself has no power and power, and he is frantically excluded. On the other hand, his success has brought a huge amount of attention and traffic. Because he insisted on independence and had no factional protection, he was sniped by various news media and gossip weekly magazines all year round, and the Japanese Ice Association and other competent departments were even more happy to see it, and it was natural that they would sit idly by and even fall into the ground.
According to Japanese statistics, since Hanyu was still in high school, Gossip Weekly began to fabricate and publish various scandals and rumors about him, inciting rival fans to hunt him down. In November 2014, he received death threats from fans of other figure skaters, but the JJF turned a blind eye to this and failed to investigate the sender.
Death threats from rival fans
During the 2016 season (each of which was released in the middle of the season, and his intentions were visible), several gossip media concentrated on weaving his scandal and spreading rumors to smear his family, so much so that in January, when he went to the remote countryside of Iwate Prefecture to visit the show, he was even questioned by local children in person. This kind of gossip and rumors that match the rhythm of the game has run through his entire competitive career, and there have been incidents where he was chased by the paparazzi and was almost injured by a car.
In 2018, Hanyu was dragged by a car because he was secretly photographed by gossip paparazzi
Hanyu Yuzuru was secretly photographed by a gossip magazine
Hanyu Yuzuru was secretly photographed by a gossip magazine
In this environment, Hanyu himself has become more and more strict about the privacy of his family, and his mother, who accompanied him in his early years, was interviewed by television several times, but in recent years, he has completely lost the shadow of his family in formal interviews. Strictly protecting the privacy of his family and all kinds of identity information, this is the greatest protection that Hanyu can do to his family based on his own strength, which is why Hanyu has always protected his wife's privacy and not revealed his wife's identity after announcing his marriage. However, the more he protects his family, the more crazy the media becomes, and "digging up the wife of Hanyu Yuzuru, the winner of the National Honor Award", is a "hot revelation" that various media have wanted to dig since Hanyu Yuzuru got married, so since he announced his marriage, the gossip media have flocked to it, forming a state of vultures and hyenas grabbing food.
Later, it turned out that the media was crazy to persecute Hanyu. According to statistics, since the announcement of his marriage on August 4, there have been gossip weekly magazines that publish rumors and scandals related to his marriage every week (note that it is weekly!) In addition to treating him as an idol idol and singing about the post-marriage market, such as rumors that the fans have run out of fans when he got married, as well as various malicious speculations about his marriage and object.
As of November 14, before the divorce, several gossip magazines such as Nuzi, Nuqi, Zhounu and the daily magazine New Zhounan had published nearly 100 rumor-mongering reports without factual basis, and there were as many as a dozen so-called wives of Hanyu Yuzuru. All reports are arbitrary, speculative, unsubstantiated and unethical reports. And every time a new rumor is released, it is before he is about to release a personal ice show tour, ticket sales and other critical moments, and even the gossip media directly pointed out in the report that he hopes that all Hanyu Yuzuru's fans will run out and no one will watch his ice show again. With these gossip as the core, other Japanese gossip magazines, online media, and social network marketing accounts have quoted and applied their content, as if because they are quoting other articles, they do not have to take the responsibility of spreading rumors, and collude with each other to spread all kinds of rumors everywhere.
Japanese netizens counted the frequency of rumors in Hanyu's gossip weekly from marriage to divorce
Other rumor-mongering gossip reports from other Japanese celebrities are published on an annual basis, and several articles are published a year. Only Hanyu Yuzuru is calculated on a weekly basis, and one article is published every week. According to the divorce announcement, after getting married, Hanyu's wife was in a state where she could not leave the house for a single step, and was blocked alive for three months. On the one hand, he has to do all kinds of work for the ice show during the day, and he has to practice intensively at night, with almost no time to rest. While working hard, his family, friends, neighbors and himself were frequently harassed by paparazzi, and even were followed by inexplicable vehicles and accosted by strange people. And every morning, new rumors await them on the Internet.
It has also been suggested that it is rare for such a mass harassment among the multiple entertainers known to be married to amateurs. Perhaps it is precisely because in recent years, there has been no news of large-scale harassment of amateurs, that Hanyu thinks that he can marry an amateur while being able to protect the privacy of his family, but after marriage, he finds that this is not the case, so what he didn't think of before he got married, how should he think of it?
But why is Hanyu Yuzuru's situation so special, and such a large-scale harassment by the media?
This is because almost all celebrities in Japan, with the exception of Hanyu, have brokerage firms. In addition to taking a profit from their business, the brokerage company is also responsible for their public relations image, so no matter the size, the brokerage company can take all kinds of problems in black and white. The most famous case is Genesys & Associates, which actually had a sexual assault scandal 70 years ago, but it was not exposed until the end of the century, and it did not affect its business, and finally it really broke out after the death of the actual controller Kitagawa in 2019.
Yoshimoto Kogyo, a well-known law firm, single-handedly controls the business chain of performing arts companies, television stations, and advertisers
In addition, many of the various artists were originally the second generation of actors and the second generation of power, although they also came from poor backgrounds in their early years, but they have been in the entertainment industry for many years, and the relationship network has long been opened. Therefore, the celebrities before Hanyu got married, and the media gossip was a little bit of water even if it was digging privacy. When it comes to Hanyu Yuzuru, who has no background, his true true colors are revealed.
It can also be seen from the case of Hanyu's marriage that it was not the Japanese media who talked about the rules and did not shoot amateurs, but the Japanese media did not shoot amateurs with backgrounds and relationships. When the interests are too large and there is no external force to stop them, the so-called "amateur privacy" is a dead letter to them, and it is not binding. As a sports superstar who is widely known in Japan and even around the world, Hanyu Yuzuru has a huge amount of traffic, but he only buries his head in training, that is, he has no background and never goes into camps to socialize, such a person has naturally become the target of the media's frenzy.
On the contrary, even if powerful people like Hashimoto and Kitagawa are caught with evidence and a real scandal is exposed, the "bigwigs" who control the media industry can quickly suppress them through the guidance of public opinion and gently expose them. In such a society, the media is nothing more than a lackey of capital and the powerful. For Hanyu, who has lived a strict life of restraining his words and deeds for many years, and is very popular among the people, and has no stain on himself, suppressing his reputation through scandals and his family is the best means for those in the upper echelons who don't want to see him continue to rise.
It can not only suppress Hanyu Yuzuru and steal the interests of the figure skating market and even the commercial market, but also use Hanyu's tragic fate to set an example and warn the commoners who have achieved success by their own efforts but do not obey the elite class. The encirclement and denigration of Hanyu killed two birds with one stone, and in the eyes of the powerful and the media, Hanyu Yuzuru was the best target and tool to use.
Hanyu Yuzuru's solo ice show was hard to find and sold out, seriously shaking up the traditional figure skating market
In Japan, a fixed-class society, there can only be ministers, magnates, samurai thugs, and slaves, and ordinary people who want to break through the class and succeed with their own efforts will definitely face the same predicament as Hanyu. Therefore, most young people, after the slightest emergence, will seek refuge in clinging to their predecessors or factions. After becoming famous, he was harassed by the paparazzi media, and under the guidance of public opinion, many Japanese netizens laughed and talked about this as a "celebrity tax", that is, "to be famous, you have to pay a price", but I don't know how famous does not mean that you will make a profit by fame, and I don't know how many celebrities who rely on fame to make a profit have not paid a little cost, and how many simple ordinary people have been devoured by jackals, tigers and leopards on the way to fame and fame. Beneath the surface of the "celebrity tax", what is hidden is the arbitrary trampling on the basic human rights of the disadvantaged by the powerful groups.
After Hanyu Yuzuru announced his divorce, the Japanese people overwhelmingly supported him, because the real ordinary Japanese people felt the same way, and they felt the cold of their lips and teeth, and a Japanese netizen said sharply:
"In the world of politics and sports, it is now commonplace for the second generation of political stars and the third generation. In a world where family backgrounds must be relied upon, Mr. Hanyu has risen to the top of the world through his talent and hard work alone. The support of the Japan Skating Union is also limited to the minimum, and the cost of studying abroad and training in Canada is also covered through scholarships. Since then, he has made a leap forward through the sponsorship support of the company, and in turn, he has brought great benefits to the company and the organization.
He was born into a very modest family, his parents were teachers and part-time employees, and his family conquered the world with the support of his loved ones. I've never heard of celebrities, tycoons, or sports players among his relatives. In today's society, he is a highly unusual figure. The parents of the XX players are also athletes, and in the Japanese national teams such as basketball and football, the parents of many members have prominent experiences.
However, Mr. Hanyu is different. "Even if you are born in an ordinary family, even if your parents are ordinary, as long as you work hard, you can achieve the pinnacle in the world", he should be a role model.
However, nowadays, even if he has achieved excellent results and performed well, as long as he does not have a backer, he will be bullied and destroyed. Neither the state nor the organization will protect, and in the end it will only become unfortunate, and this is exactly the pattern that people are trying to shape.
"It's useless to just try on your own. A wise man should listen to the words of the above."
It is impossible to breathe vitality into Japan with such a mode of operation. Politicians and the wealthy may want to suppress rebels because they are in the way. But I hope they realize that what they are destroying now is the future and pride of Japan. ”
Hanyu's divorce is a move made by ordinary people who have no support in this class society, under the siege and interception of the unscrupulous media, and can only rely on their own strength.
A person who should have been happy, was bullied and oppressed by the media, and after struggling for three months, he gave up his love, and could only let go for the freedom and happiness of the other party.
Hanyu's persecution by the gossip media led to a divorce incident that caused great indignation in Japanese society, triggering a unanimous crusade against the gossip and immoral media of the Japanese people, and the gossip media saw that public opinion was boiling, and in order to shake off the pot, they intensified the rumors and slandered Hanyu Yuzuru, and some Chinese online platform marketing accounts and netizens also created rumors and insults and even created their own rumors to persecute Hanyu Yuzuru for the second time for the sake of traffic and gossip media.
Hanyu Yuzuru uses his personal strength to confront all the bad media and evil forces, but the common people will always be ordinary people, and if they refuse to go along with the same stream, they will be persecuted by rumors, and they will not even be able to have the happiness of ordinary people.