The deception of Johnny’s’s press conference “NG list” is exposed, and Inohara’s statement “I don’t want my children to see it” is a “big boomerang.”

Johnny’s’s office limited itself to “one question per company” in advance at the press conference on October 2, when it announced the change of company name, the establishment of a new company, and the issue of compensation for the accused. The fact that they did not accept questions from some journalists who have been pursuing the Johnny’s issue has caused a stir, suggesting that the traditional structure of the Johnny’s office, which has controlled the media, has not changed.

The issue of limiting the press conference to “one question per company,” while it would be understandable if one person from one company were to ask questions on behalf of another, the limitation to “one question” was clearly an attempt to contain the pursuit of multiple inconvenient questions, which could be suspected. In the past, for example, an entertainment reporter would ask a series of questions in rapid succession and play catch-up with the celebrities and other participants at a press conference.

It would be a real fallacy to try to control the media at a press conference of the Johnny’s office, which has failed to stop the unprecedented sexual assault of Mr. Johnny’s. Since Johnny’s press conference is a social issue concerning a serious sex crime, it is necessary to answer all questions as fairly as possible within the time constraints.

At the previous press conference on September 7, Tokyo Shimbun reporter Kinshoko Mochizuki, who had asked questions about Higashiyama’s allegations of sexual harassment and power harassment, Eito Suzuki, who is known for his comments and reports that get to the heart of issues such as the Unification Church, and Satohiko Ogata of “Arc Times” raised their hands but were not answered, according to X (formerly Twitter), etc. He explained in detail and criticized Johnny’s’s response. It is no wonder that he was clearly marked from the beginning as a reporter who would not be allowed to ask questions.

According to a report on NHK NEWS WEB on April 4, the company that was entrusted by the office to run the press conference brought to the venue an “NG list” with the names and photos of several reporters and freelance journalists to prevent them from nominating questions. It is believed that the aforementioned journalists and others were the targets of the list.

After the press conference, the company in charge of the management of the conference responded to NHK’s interview, “We cannot give any answers, including the details of the contract,” and Johnny’s’s office commented, “We have no knowledge of that.

While the NHK report caused a huge stir, Johnny’s’s stated late in the evening of the 4th that the list was made at the sole discretion of the PR company that managed the press conference, and that when they had a meeting two days before the press conference, the management company brought a media list and it said NG, so Mr. Inohara asked them, “What does this mean?

What do you mean by this? You definitely have to guess it.

The PR company said, “We’ll make sure you hit the second half, not the first half.

The PR company replied, “We’ll try to hit the second half, not the first half.

The PR firm replied, “We’ll try to guess the second half of the list, not the first half.

No one from our company was involved in the leaked documents. No one has seen them.

Johnny’s has released comments such as, “Even if the PR company did this on its own, it is not the final decision.

Even if the PR company did this on their own, it does not change the fact that they ultimately overlooked the fact that the aforementioned members could not be guessed and consequently eliminated them.

Incidentally, Suzuki said he was going to ask whether the former Johnny’s’s who quit Johnny’s after being sexually victimized would include “lost earnings” that they might have originally been able to gain from their debut. This is another essential question on the compensation issue, but it was not clarified in detail at the press conference.

Some media who were not nominated had a rough time, asking questions without a microphone, but the vice president of the new company, Mr. Yoshihiko Inohara, who will be the vice president of the new company, said

I don’t want the children to see this.

“You have to follow the rules,” he said.

He said, “I don’t want children to see this. It is doubtful that a person who has been on the side of child abuse would use children as a pretext, but some reporters applauded him for it. Either way, if Mr. Inohara was aware of the existence of the NG list and made such a statement, it is a boomerang.

And, as usual, I was surprised by what it tells us about some reporters who are disciplined by the Johnny’s office. Wasn’t the confusion caused by their insistence on the “one company, one question rule” in the first place?

In any case, it remains to be seen how the company will solve the mountain of problems, including the compensation issue for which no one has yet been identified and the operation of the new company. The fact that not a single case of sexual crimes involving hundreds of people has been brought to the attention of the investigative authorities, and the fact that the Child Abuse Law, which defines abuse as abuse by a parent or guardian in place of a parent, has not been revised as it is, also need to be examined. –.

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