Don’t shoot!” TBS admits “Johnny’s discovery” in the Kusanagi Tsuyoshi case and the “former SMAP manager” who remains silent.

The “darkness” in the TV industry, triggered by the sexual assault of the late Janie Kitagawa, is about to be exposed.

On November 26, TBS aired an investigative program, “Special Investigative Report on the Former Johnny’s Office,” in which TBS TV and TBS Radio jointly conducted an investigation into the handling of the report on Johnny’s sexual assault and the relationship with the former Johnny’s Office (now SMILE-UP.).

One of the most interesting points touched on the case of former SMAP member Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, who was caught red-handed in April ’09 on a charge of public indecency for being drunk and rowdy in the nude in a park in Minato Ward, Tokyo. In the verification program, he was described as Mr. B of an idol group. After Kusanagi was sent to the police station, he was released with his disposition pending.

The car carrying Kusanagi then left the police station and went to the underground parking lot in the TBS broadcasting center in Akasaka, being followed by the media. A member of the station’s news department rushed to the scene with a camera, only to be confronted by a member of the programming department who said, “Don’t film!

Don’t film!

and stopped them. Reporters and cameramen surrounded the car and asked Kusanagi questions, and the car drove away, which was broadcast on the day’s news program.

At the hearing, the editor-in-chief of the news bureau

“A reporter covering the story in the underground parking lot called me and reported, ‘The organization is asking me to stop, what should I do?’

There was an employee on the scene who was in contact with Johnny’s.”

‘So it’s a matter of great people even showing up in the parking lot. I felt that people outside of the press, whether it be production or organization, would be that considerate of Johnny’s. It didn’t sit well with me that they interfered with our coverage.”

He testified, “I was not satisfied with the way they interfered with the interview.