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<h3>Sexual assault on location bus</h3>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I would never do anything like that forcibly.</span></p>
<p>Last August, the suspect, Shinji Saito, 41, of the popular comedy trio &#8220;Jungle Pocket,&#8221; desperately tried to explain himself in response to a direct interview by Friday. &#8230;&#8230;</p>
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<p>On October 7, it was reported that Saito had been referred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse and non-consensual obscenity. According to the report, he is suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s on a location bus parked on a street in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in July of this year. The woman reportedly told the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department about the damage and said, &#8220;I will never forgive him. Saito responded to a voluntary interview,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Saito said, &#8220;I regret the trouble I caused to the other party and my family by my thoughtless act.&#8221;</span></p>
<p>Saito&#8217;s affiliation is Yoshimoto Yoshimoto. On the same day, Yoshimoto Kogyo, Saito&#8217;s company, announced on its official website</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> We are pleased to announce that Jungle Pocket&#8217;s Shinji Saito has terminated his management contract with our company today.</span></p>
<p>The company also announced on its official website on the same day that the contract had been terminated. Regarding the circumstances that led to the termination of the contract,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> We have been carefully handling the allegations of a serious breach of contract against Saito, including confirming the facts in consultation with the parties concerned, taking into consideration the honor, privacy, and health of the parties concerned, while receiving advice from our lawyers. The company has terminated the management contract with Saito today.</span></p>
<p>The company stated, &#8220;Saito was not a member of our management team at the beginning of August.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> On September 20, Yoshimoto Kogyo announced that Saito&#8217;s activities would be suspended for the time being due to his poor health. Since the details were not disclosed, there was speculation on social networking sites that Saito might be suffering from a lingering effect of Friday&#8217;s two reports of infidelity in 2011, or that he might be mentally exhausted because he has been repeatedly criticized for infidelity.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> However, some people were also asking, &#8220;Did he cause any problems? Some sports newspaper reporters asked, &#8220;Did you cause some kind of problem?</span></p>
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<h3>Two betrayals in two months</h3>
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<p><span class="strongInContent">The</span> latest news report revealed that the reason for Saito&#8217;s suspension was a sexual assault charge against a young woman. <span class="strongInContent">It&#8217;s not fair.</span> People are as worried about members Hirohisa Ota (40) and Otake (41) as they are about Saito <span class="strongInContent">.</span></p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The &#8220;Jungle Pocket&#8221; trio of Ota, Otake, and Saito, who is both a comedian and a great comedian, became very popular. Saito was especially popular for his one-liners and his passionate personality, which he put emphasis on the trio&#8217;s activities, and he was also well-liked. However, the two alleged affairs in August and September of 2011 reported by Friday, turned out to be a betrayal of the viewers&#8221; (TV magazine writer).</span></p>
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<p>Friday first reported Saito&#8217;s alleged infidelity in August of last year. On June 3 of the same year, Saito visited a cabaret club in Fukuoka City with an acquaintance and had physical relations with a female cast member in her early 20s. The woman&#8217;s acquaintance is,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> After leaving the restaurant, Saito sent a message to the cast member on LINE, met up with her at the woman&#8217;s home, and had a physical relationship with her. After that, Saito apparently called the woman on a daily basis. I guess the reason for all the phone calls is to avoid leaving any evidence. &#8230;&#8230;</span></p>
<p>He said. When Friday directly contacted Saito, Saito said,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> [I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;ve already &#8230;&#8230; been a devil. I&#8217;m sorry.</span></p>
<p>I&#8217;m sorry,&#8221; he said. When asked if he had apologized to his wife, he replied, &#8220;Yes,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Yes, I did. I told her and she was very angry with me. &#8230;&#8230; He told me that I should apologize to my employer and make amends. She is a waste of a wife for me. I&#8217;m sorry I couldn&#8217;t say something funny.</span></p>
<p>He was furious with himself, saying such things as, &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I couldn&#8217;t say anything funny. Shortly thereafter, Friday obtained information that there was another woman with whom Saito had an affair, and reported a second alleged affair in September of the same year.</p>
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<h3>I definitely did not.</h3>
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<p>The other party was a former gravure idol (26 at the time).</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> [Mr. Saito and I met at a dinner party on September 11, &#8217;20. After we exchanged lines, he called me on the phone and asked me, &#8220;Do you have big breasts? After we exchanged lines, he would call me on the phone and ask me if I had big breasts.</span></p>
<p>This is the former grad student&#8217;s opinion. We later met again, but for some reason, the designated meeting place was an apartment in Ebisu. When she was waiting in front of the apartment, Saito arrived in a cab and told her to wait for him. After a while, Saito called me and told me to come to his room.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> When I opened the door, a man called &#8220;the president&#8221; who was at the first dinner meeting (September 11, 2008) came out. He told me, &#8216;Mr. Saito is in that room,&#8217; and I was taken to a small room with only a bed. In the room, Saito-san and I chatted alone.</span></p>
<p>Saito was calm, a complete change from the tension on the line. However, Saito&#8217;s attitude began to change at one point.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The boss, who had been in the other room the whole time, said, &#8216;I&#8217;m going out to eat,&#8217; and went out. When I moved into the living room, Saito suddenly hugged me. He said, &#8216;You are married, right?　I said, &#8216;No more than that,&#8217; but he didn&#8217;t stop and kissed me &#8230;&#8230;. He kept asking for more, and I kept telling him no. He still kept coming on and on. He still kept coming on and on, so I left the apartment to escape.</span></p>
<p>When I directly confronted Saito, he admitted to meeting the woman at the condo, but when I asked him about the hugging and kissing,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I never forced him to do anything like that.</span></p>
<p>Saito denied it categorically.</p>
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<h3>After two months of house arrest, he returned to work, but &#8230;&#8230;</h3>
<p>Saito was forced to suspend his work for two months due to two reports of alleged infidelity, but he did not drop his Wednesday show &#8220;ZIP! Saito&#8217;s appearances on variety shows also increased.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Saito&#8217;s wife, Saori Seto (36), accepted Saito&#8217;s apology and apologized to him on SNS, which was a big deal. After his return to TV, he steadily increased his exposure, thanks in part to the loving teasing of big-name comedians such as Akashiya Sanma (69) and Ariyoshi Hiroyuki (50). This time, however, it was a sexual assault case, so no matter how much her family forgives her, the public will never forgive her. I think it will be difficult for her to return to work.</span></p>
<p>Retirement may be inevitable at this point.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_394067" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1667px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-394067"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="202a0c2d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/a0d2d7e32f4e1ea0f0040779ca833e36.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-394067" class="wp-caption-text">He expressed his grief and spoke of remorse. &#8230;&#8230; (Sept. 1, &#8217;23 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_394068" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1455px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-394068"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d106ff8d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/5bb3f6eb711d0841ffccaab51e93d11b.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-394068" class="wp-caption-text">He seemed very depressed, as this was the second time he had been hit directly (Sept. 15 and 22, &#8217;23 issue).</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_394069" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 1355px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-394069"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="82ecf5f1"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/10/50d20b7a4ac6a8b5bf791781fe29f4af.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-394069" class="wp-caption-text">He answered the questions well, but &#8230;&#8230; (Sept. 15 and 22, &#8217;23 issue)</figcaption></figure>
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 On October 7, it was reported that Shinji Saito of "Jungle Pocket" had been referred to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of non-consensual sexual intercourse and non-consensual obscenity. Speaking of Saito, this magazine had reported on his two previous affairs. ......

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