<p>Hitoshi Matsumoto (60) of &#8220;Downtown&#8221; was first reported for &#8220;sexual assault&#8221; by &#8220;Weekly Bunshun&#8221; at the end of last year. One month later, this magazine published a &#8220;photo of a wild drinking session. He held a drinking party in a suite room of a luxury hotel in Osaka with beautiful women who were &#8220;attended&#8221; by a junior comedian. In the picture, Matsumoto is lying on the sofa and a beautiful woman is riding on his upper body. Matsumoto then looks ecstatic. &#8230;&#8230; The following is a recap of the details based on an article distributed on February 7, 2012.</p>
<figure id="attachment_370136" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1614px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-370136"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="c5a904eb"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/04/7d298c007dc59cce4375bae04bcdd64e.jpeg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-370136" class="wp-caption-text">He makes Ms. B straddle him on top of himself. The look of ecstasy on his face shows no sign of the king who has reigned over the entertainment world for so long.</figcaption></figure>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;I have a great VIP coming, so if you decide to have sex with him, please get me a good girl.</span></p>
<p>It was the day before the party that Ako received such a call. Although she was puzzled by the sudden contact, she was curious to know who the &#8220;VIP&#8221; was, so she and her friend attended the party. The attendants took her to the place where they were waiting for them.</p>
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<p>The king of comedy is in a tight spot. The December 27, 2011 issue of Shukan Bunshun reported that Matsumoto had held a drinking party in a luxury hotel suite with his junior comedians and forced them to perform sexual acts on the women who attended.</p>
<p>While the future of Matsumoto, who has suspended his activities, was in the spotlight, FRIDAY obtained a shocking photo of him. A man is straddling a woman over his body as she lies on the floor. Matsumoto, the subject of this story, is in ecstasy as he places his left hand on the woman&#8217;s crotch.</p>
<p>FRIDAY interviewed Ms. Ako, who attended the drinking party. FRIDAY interviewed Ms. Ako, who participated in the drinking party, and she recounts the whole story.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ms. Ako, who was invited to the drinking session with Mr. Matsumoto by Mr. Sense Watanabe (40) of &#8220;Crossbar Direct Attack,&#8221; said, &#8220;At that time, Mr. Watanabe and I were often together. At the time, Mr. Watanabe and I often went out for drinks together. He invited me to a drinking party with &#8220;VIPs&#8221; and asked me to send him a picture of the girl I was bringing. I sent him a picture of my friend, B-ko, and he replied that she was cute and that he would be fine with her. (All statements in parentheses below are those of Ms. A.)</span></p>
<p>On the same day, before the VIP drinking session, Ako and her friends met up with Watanabe and went to an izakaya (Japanese-style pub).</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;There again, Mr. Watanabe said to Biko, &#8216;Are you sure you can do that (with the VIPs)? He was very careful to make sure.</span></p>
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<p>After leaving the restaurant, Ako and her friends were taken to a suite on the 35th floor of The Ritz-Carlton, Osaka, one of the most luxurious hotels in the Kansai region, where a night&#8217;s stay costs no less than 100,000 yen.</p>
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<p>The six participants in the drinking party were Aiko, Biko, Watanabe, Tamura Kenji (50), Mr. X, a broadcaster of &#8220;Matsumoto Family Holiday,&#8221; and Matsumoto. At first, they were talking about their plans for the program, but after a while, Matsumoto began to ask about the private lives of the A-kos. When the topic turned to romance, Matsumoto began to reveal the type of girl he liked, saying, &#8220;I like young and naive girls.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When asked where he was from, Matsumoto replied, &#8220;I like girls who grew up well. When we were asked where we were from, she would say, &#8216;You grew up well, and I like girls with good grades. &#8216; &#8216;How old is your father and what does he do? How old is your father and what does he do? He also asked questions like, &#8220;How old is your father and what does he do? Matsumoto-san said to Biko and I, &#8220;You look like Katopan, and I look like Minami Tanaka!　This one looks like Minami Tanaka! He seemed to be having a good time.</span></p>
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<p>The drinking session continued in a friendly mood for a while, until Tamura said, &#8220;Okay. The mood suddenly began to change when Tamura said, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s almost time to go, so let&#8217;s end by saying the name of the person we like one by one.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> First, all the men except for Mr. Matsumoto went into another room one by one, and then we were called in. Then, Tamuken asked us, &#8220;Who did you like among the men? Tamuken asked me, &#8216;Which of the men did you like? I was puzzled, so he asked, &#8220;If you had to pick one, who would it be?　He persistently asked me, &#8220;You definitely have to pick one of them! I answered, &#8220;Tamuken-san. I later heard that Child B also answered, &#8216;Mr. Tamuken.</span></p>
<p>After interviewing the women, Tamuken came back to the room and said, &#8220;I have finished tallying up everyone. However, what he said was something that even Ako did not expect.</p>
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<h3>Discovery of a junior comedian</h3>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;Tamuken said, &#8216;Oh my God, they were both Mr. Matsumoto! I was honestly surprised. I was honestly surprised, but I refrained from refuting him because I was afraid that it would destroy the atmosphere. Perhaps feeling better by Tamuken&#8217;s comment, Matsumoto-san was in a good mood and said, &#8220;Well, I guess I&#8217;ll have both of them! Then there should be three of us! I said no. As I was softly replying no, Mr. Matsumoto patted Biko on the body and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll take her for today. Then let&#8217;s go over there.&#8217; &#8230;&#8230;&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>The junior comedian set him up, and Matsumoto disappeared into the bedroom with Biko.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;When they went to the bedroom, the rest of them urged me, &#8216;We should leave the room,&#8217; and we broke up. When we walked out of the hotel together, they picked up a cab and Tamuken-san took 3,000 yen out of his wallet for the cab fare, and when we refused, he now forcefully handed it to the cab driver. I was worried about my friend, so I told him I would stay behind. I told him that I was worried about my friend, so I told him that I would stay, but he put me in the cab at the end. As the car started to drive away, I remember seeing Mr. Tamuken hand Mr. Watanabe something that looked like an envelope.</span></p>
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<p>Leaving her friends at the hotel, Ako was forced to return home halfway. However, about an hour after they broke up, she received a phone call.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> A friend of mine is too drunk to go home, so can you come pick me up?&#8221;</span></p>
<p>The caller was not Biko, but Matsumoto.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I was surprised for a moment, but went back to the hotel. When we arrived and waited in front of the elevator, Matsumoto-san came down alone. When we went up to the room together, Matsumoto-san said, &#8216;Since you came all this way, let&#8217;s have another drink,&#8217; so the three of us ended up drinking together.</span></p>
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<p>During the drinking session, Matsumoto was relaxed, unlike when Tamura was there.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;I remember that when we were alone, we talked a lot about eroticism. I remember that when the three of us were together, we talked a lot about erotic things, like, &#8216;People think I&#8217;m an S person, but I&#8217;m actually an M person,&#8217; and &#8216;I like to be on top of you. Then Mr. Matsumoto turned to Biko and said, &#8216;Get on top of me like you did before,&#8217; and put her on top of him. The picture is from that moment.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>Perhaps completely drunk, Matsumoto did not seem to pay attention when Ako and the others took out their cell phones. Matsumoto became talkative and said to them, &#8220;I&#8217;m a genius, aren&#8217;t I? That&#8217;s why I have to leave my descendants, don&#8217;t I? After the drinking session, which lasted until around 2 am, Ako and the others left the hotel and waited for the first train home.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Mr. Matsumoto said, &#8220;To be honest, I don&#8217;t know the truth of the reports of Mr. Matsumoto&#8217;s sexual assault, but it is true that he used junior comedians to hold drinking parties with ″getting laid″ girls. When we went back to drink, I asked Matsumoto-san, &#8216;Do you always invite girls to drink like this?&#8217; He replied, &#8216;Not every time. But it&#8217;s more fun when there are girls around.</span></p>
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<p>According to Ako&#8217;s testimony, Matsumoto had his juniors &#8220;pay up&#8221; to him for women, and despite the fact that he was married, he was still involved in wild debauchery.</p>
<p>FRIDAY asked Yoshimoto Kogyo about the facts regarding the drinking session and his disappearance into the bedroom with the woman, but they did not respond by the deadline, nor did they respond when we called Matsumoto&#8217;s cell phone number, which Ms. Ako said was exchanged that day.</p>
<h3>Just before his first trial, Matsumoto posted, &#8220;I want to do comedy &#8230;&#8230;,&#8221; but &#8230;&#8230;</h3>
<p>On January 31, Tamura appeared on the Los Angeles radio program &#8220;Tamuken is in LA! and appeared on the radio show &#8220;Tamuken is in LA!</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> After prefacing his speech with the words, &#8220;I contacted Mr. Matsumoto and he agreed and said I can talk as I please.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>He said, &#8220;I contacted Mr. Matsumoto and he gave me his approval and said I could talk as I liked,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;m going to say it clearly this time. The drinking parties we had in Osaka were never for the purpose of sexual entertainment, sex payment system, or any other such purposes.</span></p>
<p>He denied it completely. Watanabe also denied it. However, Matsumoto and Yoshimoto Kogyo are still silent about the report in this magazine.</p>
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<p>On March 25, on the verge of a defamation lawsuit with Bungeishunju, publisher of &#8220;Shukan Bunshun,&#8221; Matsumoto updated X. He wrote, &#8220;I have always aspired to make people laugh,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I have always aspired to make people laugh. I am simply bewildered, frustrated and saddened by the absurdity that so many people can no longer laugh at me, that so many innocent younger people are involved, and that my claims are being drowned out and not accepted. I want the truth to be conveyed to the world, and I want to be able to laugh as soon as possible.</span></p>
<p>I want the world to know the truth, and I want to do comedy as soon as possible,&#8221; he said. As of March 27, this post had been viewed more than 95 million times, indicating the high level of attention it had garnered. The next day, at the first oral argument, Matsumoto demanded that Bunshun submit the names (stage names), addresses, birth dates, cell phone numbers, LINE accounts, and photos of &#8220;Ako&#8221; and &#8220;Bko,&#8221; who confessed to sexual assault, as well as their appearance. Without these documents, they argued, &#8220;we will not know if it is true or not.</p>
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<p>In response, Bunshun&#8217;s lawyer said, &#8220;This is the first time this has happened,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> If you didn&#8217;t do it, there&#8217;s no need to identify you.</span></p>
<p>The situation is showing the appearance of an &#8220;all-out war. The next round of the trial will be held online on June 5, and a reporter from a national newspaper familiar with civil lawsuits commented on the future of the case,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> A reporter at a national newspaper who is familiar with civil lawsuits said, &#8220;Since the two sides have been at odds with each other since the first oral argument, it is hard to believe that the trial will be over in one or two years. If the case is not settled, there is a strong possibility that one of the parties will appeal the decision, and it is quite possible that the case will go all the way to the Supreme Court.</span></p>
<p>On the April 13 broadcast of &#8220;Sanma&#8217;s Comedy Committee&#8221; (Fuji TV), Ruma Takahiri (29) of the comedy duo &#8220;Reiwa Roman&#8221; appeared as a guest,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He exclaimed, &#8220;After what happened to Mr. Matsumoto, you never know when you won&#8217;t be able to see anyone again!</span></p>
<p>Murakami (39) of &#8220;Magical Lovely&#8221; was quick to respond, &#8220;Matsumoto-san will be back!</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Murakami, 39, of &#8220;Magical Lovely&#8221; was quick to chime in, &#8220;Matsumoto-san will be back!</span></p>
<p>and &#8220;Mr. Matsumoto will be back! Tomonori Jinnai (50) added, &#8220;Matsumoto will be back!</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Matsumoto-chan is coming back!</span></p>
<p>Tomonori Jinnai (50) also emphatically assured the audience, &#8220;Matsumoto-chan will be back! We will keep an eye on the trial to see if the junior staff&#8217;s wishes will be understood. &#8230;&#8230; We will keep an eye on the trial.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_356665" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1740px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-356665"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="2d7ecad1"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/01/2bb8c8da7791a3bccca6f534ad7b8149.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-356665" class="wp-caption-text">He makes Ms. B straddle him. The look of ecstasy on his face shows no sign of the king who has reigned over the entertainment world for so long.</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_356666" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 2500px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-356666"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="32bcefc8"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/01/5fb0a35ba6611d79db2df9226d2f727f.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-356666" class="wp-caption-text">Even after 1:00 a.m., he is still engaged in a pick-up game with a junior comedian. Behind Matsumoto is a young Hiroyuki Miyasako (far left) (April 4, 2003 issue).</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_356667" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 2500px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-356667"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d1d1a1a5"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/01/33282ad7d0712033becb9c279c6c6268.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-356667" class="wp-caption-text">A secret blind date party in Nakasu, Fukuoka. After leaving the karaoke bar, he and a junior comedian went to a convenience store in search of condoms (Feb. 18, 2011 issue).</figcaption></figure>


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