Original] Professional golfer Asuka Kashiwabara was ordered to pay 3 million yen in alimony in her trial for adultery with her caddie.

Kashiwabara Ordered to Pay 3 Million Yen in Adultery Court

On December 13, popular female professional golfer Asuka Kashiwabara (28) updated her Instagram. She cut off her long black hair and revealed her short bob hairstyle with the hashtag “#Sukkiri. Kashiwabara is known as a beautiful golfer, and her sudden image change has been praised on SNS, with comments such as “I thought I was Ai Higa,” and “She looks like a model.

Kashiwabara won her first victory on the Japan Ladies Professional Golfers’ Association (JLPGA) Tour in 1919, and has also performed well in major tournaments. She is known for the accuracy of her iron shots and her approach around the greens. In her personal life, she posted a photo of herself in a pure white dress on her Instagram in February ’24, reporting that she had joined the family.

On December 10, the Tokyo District Court ruled in favor of Kashiwabara in an adultery trial in which he had been a defendant.

Gendai Business” reported Kashiwabara’s affair in March 2012. The Tokyo District Court ruled on December 10, ordering Kashiwabara to pay 3 million yen to his wife, Mrs. B. The court ruled that Kashiwabara should pay 3 million yen to Mrs. B. The court also ruled that Kashiwabara’s wife, Mrs. B, should pay him compensation for the affair.

The popular golfer, recognized both in name and reality, had been having an affair with a man who had a wife and child until a few years ago, and the adulterer, Mr. A, was Kashiwabara’s caddy. The details of the affair, as revealed by the court records, are as follows.

What?　What are you talking about?” and kicked him out.

It was around November 2008 that the plaintiff’s wife, Ms. B, began to have doubts about their relationship, when she found out that Mr. A was frequently in contact with Kashiwabara, both late at night and early in the morning, and she also began to distrust him because he came home less frequently and carried his cell phone around the house without leaving his skin. The relationship between Mr. A and Ms. B began to fray, and she contacted Kashiwabara, but was met with harsh words.

[Joon] I could no longer stand the difficult relationship with my husband, and I thought that I had to repair the relationship with my husband for the sake of our children, so I made a phone call to the defendant for the first time out of the goodness of my heart. When the defendant answered the phone and I told her that our family had become bitter and that I wanted her to keep her distance from my husband so that I would have time to contact him, she replied, “What?　What are you talking about?” and hung up the phone.

According to the trial, their affair began around October 2008, and the following year they began living together in an apartment in Tokyo.

In January ’21 (Reiwa 2021 in the original text), her husband, who was supposed to have arrived at Haneda Airport after returning from a training camp, did not come home at all. At first, he told me over the phone that he was going to be quarantined for about a week because of Corona, but when I asked him where he was being quarantined, he seemed at a loss for an answer. (from Ms. B’s statement)

Eventually, in February 2009, Ms. B used an investigation company to look into the couple and learned of the fact that they were having an affair. Kashiwabara’s management company at the time and Kashiwabara’s parents knew of their relationship before Ms. B did and were opposed to it.

The plaintiff’s husband and the defendant began their adulterous relationship in October ’20 (Reiwa 2020 in the original text), but initially concealed it from the defendant’s parents and the defendant’s management company at that time. (Omitted because of Mr. A’s work situation.) Around this time, their adulterous relationship gradually became known in the golf world, and the defendant’s management company at that time became aware of the adulterous relationship and told the defendant’s parents (omitted because of Mr. A’s work situation.) The defendant’s parents were angry when they heard this.

Upon hearing this, the defendant’s parents became angry and opposed their relationship, and the plaintiff’s husband was removed as the defendant’s caddie in the middle of the camp period. The defendant’s management company and parents told her to end her relationship with the plaintiff’s husband, but she refused, and began living with him in Tokyo.

(From the first brief.) They began living together in a semi-elopement-like manner. Mr. A and Mrs. B had three small children, the youngest of whom was only 0 years old. Nevertheless, her husband left home as if they were eloping, and from around February ’21, he demanded a divorce.

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[Joon] I felt very depressed after my husband left the house due to his affair with the defendant, and suddenly I couldn’t stop crying, couldn’t sleep, and lost 5 kilograms of weight in one month. It was difficult to go to the hospital with my child, and I went to the psychosomatic clinic only a few times, where I was diagnosed as depressed. Her husband, the father, was not present at her children’s Shichi-Go-San celebration or at the shrine visit. The children asked with innocent faces if their father was coming back. I felt sorry for making them feel lonely. （My dizziness, insomnia, cold sweats, and abdominal pain did not get better.

Perhaps because of the continuous insomnia, I suffered from further physical and mental problems for nearly half a year from the summer of Reiwa 2021, and I developed a mild memory disorder. I began to forget everyday events very quickly, and with an infant in the house, it was very difficult, so my mother (omitted for the sake of Mr. B’s personal information) came to Tokyo frequently to support me, and I managed to maintain my life.

It is easy to imagine the mental burden of this situation, but there is another reason, in addition to the fact that her husband left her, that Ms. B suffered so much. From around May 2009, Mr. A began to fail to send money for living expenses; although she was able to use her credit card, which Mr. A was a subscriber to, she ran out of cash, and frequent reminders for pension and tax payments began to arrive at her home. Why did Mr. A stop sending money to his family?　In the complaint, Mrs. B’s side alleges that

[Defendant] told Plaintiff’s husband that he wanted her to divorce him as soon as possible, but for external reasons because he himself is a professional golfer, he stated that the adulterous relationship between them should not be used as grounds for divorce, and he tried to speed up the divorce by soldiering on the plaintiff. Specifically, he suggested that she not pay the marriage expenses (living expenses: editor’s note) on the grounds that she could not work because she was not motivated to work and could not earn an income when she was with the plaintiff, and had her husband inform the plaintiff and her attorney to that effect.

In order to hasten the couple’s divorce, Kashiwabara allegedly arranged for Mr. A to stop sending money to Ms. B. However, this claim by Ms. B was rejected by the trial court. However,

[Joon] later learned from the plaintiff’s husband that the defendant had offered to stop the plaintiff’s husband from using his credit cards as well. The plaintiff’s husband had falsely told the defendant that he had also stopped using credit cards in order to provide for the children’s needs.

(from the complaint). If Ms. B appeals the case, the court of appeals may find a different verdict from the first trial.

Their passionate love affair, which had continued for about a year and a half, came to an end after Mr. A sacrificed his family and did not heed the advice of those around him. Around March of 2010, Mr. A returned home unexpectedly.

In this magazine’s questionnaire, Kashiwabara wrote ……

〈Suddenly my husband came home. He said that the restraint by the defendant was too strong and that he was fed up with too many bad words by the defendant about his ex-boyfriend (omitted due to personally identifiable information) and that he indeed could not stay with him anymore, but such reasons were not important to me, who had not forgiven my husband. My husband even showed me a line where the defendant stated that she still did not want to leave him.

I was filled with a desire not to have my husband in the house, but I could not kick him out because I saw the children’s faces when they were happy to see their father after a long time, to whom I had not told them what had happened so far, and also because our life was difficult and the house was in my husband’s name, etc.” (from Mrs. B’s statement)

Although the couple is not currently divorced, Ms. B’s statement reads,

Although the couple is not currently divorced, Ms. B’s statement also states, “Of course, there is no way that their relationship will ever return.

(from Ms. B’s statement). How does Kashiwabara feel about having been a major cause of the destruction of a family?　Her written answer is as follows.

The plaintiff’s husband told me that his marriage with the plaintiff had broken down, and so I entered into an unfaithful relationship with the plaintiff’s husband. The defendant, who was 24 years old at the time, believed the words of her husband, who was 13 years older than the plaintiff, that their marriage was broken, and she took his word for it without question. The defendant deeply regrets her actions, which were shallow, and she feels sorry for the emotional distress she caused the plaintiff as a result of this unfaithful act, and believes she should pay damages.

How does Mr. B feel about the outcome of this trial?

In an interview with Friday Digital, Ms. B responded, “The trial has just ended.

The trial has just ended, so it is difficult for me to talk about it at this stage. （I am still in the process of consulting with my lawyer (regarding an appeal), so I don’t know yet.

Meanwhile, we also sent a letter of inquiry to Kashiwabara. How do you accept the verdict? How does he feel about the fact that he broke up Mr. B’s family and caused him pain? And is it true that you pressured Mr. A to get a divorce or that you made him stop sending money to Ms. B?

I have no comment to make.

The answer was, “I have no comment.

Will the four-year-long affair be resolved in the near future?