<figure id="attachment_297057" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-297057" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="c76355cf"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/02/34f2896163692f9a93a9e51028c022bd.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-297057" class="wp-caption-text">Akashiya Sanma Reveals TV World&#8217;s Breathtaking Stifles with &#8220;Emphasis on Compliance</figcaption></figure>
 The old days of television were fun.
 Many of us have probably had such a conversation before. With the passage of time, a wave of compliance has swept through the TV industry, and creators have become extremely sensitive to &#8220;discrimination&#8221; and &#8220;flame wars.
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 Even Akashiya Sanma, who is known as a &#8220;comedy monster,&#8221; seems to be having a hard time adjusting to such an atmosphere.
 In a late-night broadcast of MBS radio&#8217;s &#8220;Young Town Saturday&#8221; on February 18, a listener commented
 When asked by a listener on a late-night broadcast of MBS radio&#8217;s &#8220;Young Town Saturday&#8221; on February 18, &#8220;Is it for compliance reasons that you don&#8217;t say harsh things to your radio assistants and the assistants of the &#8216;Comedy Improvement Committee&#8217; these days?
 Sanma was asked. Sanma replied
 This is really a compliance measure. And also, countermeasures against internet flame wars. All the talents are now coming in that direction, and even if the director says something harsh, he will cut it out.
 He continued. He continued.
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 I think our generation can&#8217;t keep up with the word choice of the current compliance generation. I feel as if I&#8217;m being told that.
 I am sorry. When I say harsh things, they are cut off. Even if it would have been OK in the past. I think I&#8217;m doing my best, but I&#8217;m in trouble&#8230;&#8221;
 He revealed his true feelings. In the case of Mr. Sanma, he says that he makes a distinction between his choice of words on TV and on other occasions, and that he says some harsh things on stage, where audiences pay to see him.
 The wave of compliance is unstoppable,&#8221; he said. If I say something strange, I immediately go up in flames on the Internet, and some program sponsors don&#8217;t like that. Then there are online programs and YouTube&#8230;I would say that this is actually the toughest place to be right now.
 Especially the latter, a number of top youtubers have seen their earnings plummet this year, and this is not unrelated to the compliant issue. Money falls on good quality content, while money does not come in for videos aimed at inflaming people. For a while, there were a lot of half-breeds putting up You Tubes, but most of them withdrew because their earnings were almost zero,&#8221; said an executive of a mid-sized You Tuber agency.
 Even Sanma is raising his voice in the wave of complacency. Most recently, Rurei Miura, an international political scientist, and Yusuke Narita, an assistant professor at Yale University, were greatly affected.
 Ms. Miura is currently under investigation by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office for a company owned by her husband. She has explained that she has &#8220;no involvement&#8221; in her husband&#8217;s solar business, but she has been criticized on the Internet for her past comments on one program after another.
 Miura has been suspended from appearing on Fuji Television&#8217;s &#8220;Mezamashi 8,&#8221; a regular Thursday program. He was also a regular on &#8220;Live TV till Morning! (TV Asahi), which used to be a regular program.
 (TV Asahi), where he used to be a regular. &#8220;My husband can appear on the show if he is judged to have a &#8216;different personality,&#8217; but TV today doesn&#8217;t have the courage to do so. If he were to appear on the show, he would be 100% exposed to flames, and viewers would call to inquire about it.
 It&#8217;s not like &#8220;keeping the lid on the stinky stuff,&#8221; but since the situation has come to this, they have decided not to touch it. This is a big difference from the way they had been using her so aggressively. I think Mr. Miura sensed the media&#8217;s decline this time around.
 Mr. Narita also had a novel point of view and was very popular among young people, which TV stations consider important these days. However, his comment in the past when referring to the issue of generational change in Japan, that &#8220;the elderly should commit mass suicide,&#8221; was picked up by the New York Times and other media, causing a firestorm. His ally, businessman Hiroyuki said
 He said, &#8220;I was speaking metaphorically, but now it&#8217;s as if I really meant what I said.
 Narita is now out of the list of &#8220;commentators I want to use&#8221; because of this incident. It is not unrelated that he recently announced his graduation from the YouTube program &#8220;Nikkei Tele-Todai Gaku&#8221; in which he and Hiroyuki co-hosted, as well as &#8220;ABEMA Prime,&#8221; in which he appeared as an irregular MC.
 The TV stations decided that it was too late for him to return after he had made a problematic comment. Some TV stations have decided that it would be too difficult to broadcast Mr. Hiroyuki on terrestrial TV. In the case of EXIT&#8217;s Hiroki Kanekon, who has recently been linked to the widespread robbery suspect Yuuki Watanabe, known as &#8220;Rufy,&#8221; the station has allowed him to continue to appear on the show, although he was originally under the impression that he was in the gray. Because of this situation, TV people with a backbone have long since quit.
 According to the source, most TV stations are reluctant to use Miura even if her husband is &#8220;clean&#8221; in the future. There is not a rule, but rather a certain atmosphere.
 It seems unlikely that the public&#8217;s shift away from television will ever stop.

 Kojiro Yamada

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