<figure id="attachment_406316" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-406316" style="width: 576px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b9db6e9e"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/12/211b0ef43d757e7e86537b0ca8a99e94-1.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-406316" class="wp-caption-text">Downtown&#8221; Hitoshi Matsumoto finally broke his silence&#8211;but &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
 Hitoshi Matsumoto has finally broken his silence.
 After dropping his lawsuit over the Bunshun Weekly article, he finally spoke his mind, not at a press conference, but to a &#8220;single reporter.
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 The title of the interview published on Yahoo! News is &#8220;Hitoshi Matsumoto talks about his current thoughts. And the future that he is looking forward to. The interviewer was Masao Nakanishi, a member of &#8220;KOZO Creators&#8221; led by former Daily Sports reporter and entertainment reporter Kozo Inoue.
<h2> Nakanishi has interviewed many comedians from Yoshimoto Kogyo.</h2>
 The article shows a picture of Nakanishi facing Matsumoto.
 The article, however, only contains what Matsumoto &#8220;wanted to talk about&#8221; and does not mention his relationship with a woman, which is the key to his comeback.
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 Nakanishi apologized, but the rest of the article focused on his shock at the pay cut and his plans to start a &#8220;Downtown Channel.
 When we looked at past Yahoo interviews written by Mr. Nakanishi, we found that most of them were with comedians affiliated with Yoshimoto Kogyo. Nakanishi lives in Kansai, but he travels to Tokyo every week to ask Yoshimoto Kogyo to set him up with a comedian for an interview. This means that Mr. Nakanishi is a very important partner for Yoshimoto. Since a weekly magazine interview does not have editorial rights, they probably have Mr. Nakanishi, whom they can trust, write the article for them.
 (Wide-show desk) It is possible that Fuji Television and other TV stations have decided not to allow Nakanishi to return to work without an explanation, which is why the article was published.
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Nakanishi&#8217;s X also introduces Matsumoto&#8217;s article, but a general user commented
 &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this just a PR article?
 &#8220;Isn&#8217;t this just a PR article? Is he paid?
 &#8220;He&#8217;s not a journalist, just an interviewer.
 Many users were very critical of Mr. Nakanishi, saying, &#8220;He is not a journalist, but just an interviewer.
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 In addition, not only ordinary people but also celebrities have voiced their criticisms.
<h2> It means he is not a journalist.</h2>
 Soichiro Matsutani, a journalist who is an expert on Yahoo!
 This article is written in a one-person narrative style, and the interviewer does not dare to make a comment. This means that the interviewer is not a journalist, and he is probably aware of it.
 When the columnist and film critic, Tomohiro Machiyama, made the comment, &#8220;The treatment of the women is a problem.
 Tomohiro Machiyama, a columnist and film critic, made the following comment: &#8220;The problem is the way he treated the women, but he made no apology for that. The interviewer should have asked them a question.
 He also questioned the way the interview was conducted.
 Writer Wakako Tago also questioned Nakanishi&#8217;s lack of any comments or questions.
 I felt a strong sense of discomfort because the &#8220;person in the middle&#8221; who has never given a press conference was the subject of the interview,&#8221; she wrote in X.
 When I wrote in X, Mr. Nakanishi himself replied, &#8220;If that&#8217;s the case, you should have done it yourself.
 Mr. Nakanishi himself responded, &#8220;If that was the case, you should have done it yourself.
 Mr. Nakanishi himself responded, &#8220;If that was the case, you should have done it yourself.
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 Mr. Nakanishi is the type of person who, when criticized on X, directly responds to the criticism, even to users he does not know. But this time, there were too many criticisms for him to respond. He belongs to an entertainment reporter&#8217;s office, but he never refers to himself as an entertainment reporter. However, if he is proud to be a reporter, he could have asked more penetrating questions.
 Matsumoto may have been able to appeal to the public with what he wanted to say. However, Nakanishi&#8217;s reputation as a &#8220;journalist&#8221; may have been damaged by the incident.

 Ippei Hara

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