Fuji Television’s “President’s Regular Press Conference” in February will inevitably be a rough one due to Masahiro Nakai’s “90 million yen trouble,” even though his legal advisor will be present.

Apology on a paid member site

Fuji Television Network’s response to ex-SMAP member Masahiro Nakai’s 90 million yen “trouble” with a woman is attracting attention.

In June of the year before last, Nakai had a serious problem with a woman named Xko, who was working for Fuji Television at the time, and paid 90 million yen as a settlement through a proxy.

When this came to light, the recording of TBS’s “Masahiro Nakai’s Friday Smile Tatakashe,” in which Nakai serves as MC, was canceled at the last minute, and “THE MC3,” which was scheduled to air at the beginning of the year, was cancelled.

On December 27, Nakai posted the following message on a paid members’ website

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We apologize for the inconvenience.

and apologized for the inconvenience. In addition, he added

I am earnestly and diligently working on what I must face now.

I am sincerely doing my best to deal with what I have to face now.

On the Internet, the movement to pursue Fuji Television even further than Nakai is gaining momentum.

The Weekly Bunshun reported that Xko’s boss, Mr. A, set up a drinking party with Nakai. However, it is said that only Xko and Nakai attended the meeting, and the other participants were absent on the day of the meeting.

Later, this trouble occurred between X-ko and Nakai. The story was so “too good to be true” that some people on the Internet pointed out the existence of a “payment system” within Fuji.

The key is how the president himself will respond at the press conference.

Fuji reacted vehemently to this. On its own website, Fuji announced the following

Fuji has recently received reports about our employees in some weekly magazines and other media. The content of the article is untrue, and the employee in question was not involved in any way with the dinner meeting mentioned in the article, including the setting of the meeting. We are not aware of the existence of the meeting, and there is no evidence that he was suddenly absent on the day of the meeting.

He strongly denies this.

However, the mood within the bureau is said to be unusually tense. Older members of the bureau are maintaining a calm demeanor, but younger members of the bureau are upset.

Some of them called me to ask if the company was doing all right,” he said. Some of them even received phone calls from their parents asking them if the company was doing all right.

If the existence of a “payment system” were to be proven, sponsors would leave, and the station would be unable to survive. That is why Fuji is denying any involvement of its employees and is trying to put out the fire.

Yutaka Hasegawa, an alumnus and former announcer who left Fuji Television in 2012, exposed Fuji’s internal situation in an interview with some of the media, and Fuji’s upper management was furious. The upper management of Fuji is furious with him, saying, “Somebody shut him up! I hear they are furious.

As Fuji enters its 25th year, the crucial moment for the company is the regular press conference held in February every year by Koichi Minato, the station’s president.

It is customary for the reporters in charge of the station to attend the press conference to hear about the future prospects of the station, but that is not the case this year. The press conference is sure to be peppered with questions about the series of problems, and it is likely to be a wild affair.

There is even talk that the president’s legal counsel will be present on the day of the press conference. “There is even talk that ‘will their legal counsel be there on the day of the press conference? “Was the trouble really between Nakai and Ms. Xko personally?” “How did Fuji initially respond to Xko’s damage report? The public’s impression of Fuji will depend on how the president himself answers these questions. Will Fuji TV make any moves before the regular press conference? Will Fuji Television make any moves before the regular press conference, or will negative new facts emerge? It seems that things are quite tense within the station.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the next regular press conference will decide Fuji’s fate.