Ask Ozawa…” The importance of the trial of Hitoshi Matsumoto has increased! Speedwagon’s Kazutaka Ozawa’s “Silence” on “Witness Appearance

On March 28, the Tokyo District Court heard the first oral arguments in a lawsuit filed by “Downtown” star Hitoshi Matsumoto against Bungei Shunju and others seeking approximately 550 million yen in damages for alleged forced sexual intercourse by the Weekly Bunshun magazine.

Matsumoto’s side claimed that the sexual harms alleged against Ms. A and Ms. B were

“We can’t admit or deny because we don’t know they exist.

The Matsumoto side demanded their names, dates of birth, cell phone numbers, LINE accounts, and photographs showing their looks and appearances.

Yoichi Kitamura, attorney for Bunshun, said in an interview with reporters after the trial

I have been a lawyer for 47 years, and this is the first time something like this has happened to me.

I have been a lawyer for 47 years, and this is the first time this has happened to me,” he said.

Lawyer Hideki Yashiro also could not hide his surprise when he appeared on TBS’s “Hiruobi” on March 29.

In a sense, I was shocked that they would start asking such a simple question like “Who are Ms. A and Ms. B? It was as if he was saying to himself that he had no plan or policy for proving his case.

Looking back at the Bunshun report, it is clear that Ms. Ako is connected to Kazutaka Ozawa of Speed Wagon, who “attended” to the women, and the “line” that Matsumoto wants has also been made public. The “LINE” talk history that came to Ozawa as a thank-you message from Ako was leaked, and Matsumoto posted it on X and said, “It’s finally out.

Matsumoto posted it on X and commented, “It finally got out, didn’t it?

and commented, “This is a big story.

When the identity report came out, social networking sites were inundated with comments like, “Ask Ozawa.

In other words, Ms. Matsumoto and Ms. Ako exchanged phone numbers. Ms. Ako, who was an aspiring entertainer, must have been afraid of Ozawa because he had warned her that she would not be able to walk around the area if she made him angry.

Although we may not know her address or date of birth, it may be enough to remind us of her “familiarity. The drinking sessions with Ozawa and Ms. A’s testimony have been reported in great detail.

One of these women appeared as a witness not only in Bunshun but also in the Asahi Shimbun on the day of the trial.

In an interview after the trial, Masahiro Tashiro, attorney for Matsumoto’s side, stated that not only Matsumoto himself would appear in court, but that he would also ask junior comedians to appear as witnesses “if necessary to prove the case. In other words, the possibility of Mr. Ozawa, who was called an “attending comedian” by Bunshun, testifying in court has increased. Unlike Tamura Kenji and others, Ozawa has remained silent to this point, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that his testimony could make or break the trial.

(Sports newspaper reporter) So far, Yoshimoto Kogyo has not responded to any questions about the facts. What will Ozawa, who gathered the women himself and knows the whole story of the association, say in court? ……