On June 30 this year, the Japanese project group NiziU released the mini digital album "Make you happy", and set a record of 100,000 oricon digital album weekly charts in the history of female singers, which attracted public attention. However, recently, the father of a member of the group has been exposed to scandal, and her family lineage has also aroused the disgust of many Korean netizens. Let's take a look.
Today, a netizen uploaded a post titled "JYP Girl Group (Member) Father War Criminal Enterprise + Derailment Exposure" on the Korean network nate pann.
According to the post, today's Korean media and Japanese media reported that the father of Rima, a member of the popular idol group NiziU, Hideyuki Yokoi (the godfather of Japanese hip-hop), enjoyed a three-day and two-night trip with a young woman at an upscale resort somewhere in Japan on the 15th of this month, but the woman was not his wife, Miwa Nakabayashi. At the same time, after checking out of the resort, the two also made physical contact such as hugging and kissing at the train station. Its company replied: "Just friends".
It is reported that Zeebra and his ex-wife once had two sons, and his current wife, Hayashi Miwa, married and had two daughters. In 2016, the current wife, Mikazu Nakabayashi, also posted news about her husband Yokoi's family violence and threats on Twitter, which caused controversy.
Rimo Yokoi, a member of the group NiziU, is the youngest daughter of Hideyuki Yokoi. At the beginning of this year, Rimo Yokoi participated in the women's idol group selection and survival reality program "Nizi Project" jointly launched by South Korean JYP Entertainment and Japanese record label Sony Music, and finally she successfully advanced to become one of the final debut members, realizing her dream of idols.
And because Yokoi has just debuted as an idol on the road to success, the Japanese media and netizens are worried that her father's extramarital affair scandal will hit her daughter's image. At the same time, The family lineage of Yokoi Rimo has also attracted the attention of netizens.
According to Wikipedia records, Yokoi's father, Hideyuki Yokoi, was the grandson of Japanese entrepreneur Hideki Yokoi and was the adopted son of Hideki Yokoi on household registration. Yokoi Industries began supplying uniforms to the army during World War II, when he owned four garment factories that produced uniforms for the army and began to accumulate property. He has also operated in the real estate and shipping industries. And in the 1980s, Hideki Yokoi had a $4 billion fortune.
The owner said that NiziU is a Japanese group created by Park Jin-young in order to develop kpop, and Park Zhen-young has not been scolded for this. The group is fully Japanese, and the purpose is to operate in Japan and enter the world in Japanese, but the main members are the descendants of war criminal companies.
In addition, the poster added: Yokoi Industries did not just sell military uniforms during World War II... Also conducts munitions management ... That is, the enterprise that managed the army during World War II.
Previously, Park Zhenrong also said on the show that thanks to the fire of Nizi Project JYP's stock, it was able to rise.
In this regard, many netizens expressed great dissatisfaction with the situation that there are descendants of war criminals in NiziU: "Why did you want to form a group of all Japanese in the first place?" "Also trained the descendants of war criminals to become superstars"...
NiziU is a Japanese girl singing group launched on June 30, 2020 by JYP Entertainment and Sony Music, Japan, consisting of 9 members: Mako Yamaguchi, Riku Oe, Rima, Rio Katsumura, Maya, Miihi, Yuka Koima, Ayaka Arai, and Nina. Previously, JYP Entertainment announced its plans for the second half of the year: Japanese project portfolio NiziU will officially debut in November.