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<h2> Payment of 90 million yen in the name of settlement through an agent</h2>
<p> The TV industry is in a flurry of activity regarding former SMAP member Masahiro Nakai.</p>
<p> The year before last, Nakai had a trouble with a woman, Xko, who was working for Fuji Television at the time, and paid 90 million yen as a settlement payment through his agent. The first report was in the December 19 issue of &#8220;Josei Seven,&#8221; followed by a detailed report in &#8220;Shukan Bunshun&#8221; on December 26.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> The settlement payment of 90 million yen is extraordinary,&#8221; Bunshun reported. Bunshun specified that the content of the trouble was a sexual issue. Nakai has no objection to that so far. In today&#8217;s TV industry, which is sensitive to sexual assault, this means that he has &#8216;crossed the line'&#8221; (reporter in charge of entertainment for a sports newspaper).</span></p>
<p> As a result, Nakai&#8217;s regular programs have been &#8220;replaced&#8221; since the beginning of the year.</p>
<p> The January 10 broadcast of TBS&#8217;s &#8220;Nakai Masahiro no Friday no Smile Tachihe New Year&#8217;s SP&#8221; was replaced by the movie &#8220;I fell in love like a bouquet of flowers&#8221;; the January 11 broadcast of TV Asahi&#8217;s &#8220;Nakai Masahiro no Sato-na Kai&#8221; became a separate program; and the January 12 broadcast of &#8220;Dareka to Nakai&#8221; was also cancelled.</p>
<p> Nakai was not the only &#8220;epicenter&#8221; of the incident.</p>
<p> Fuji Television is also under scrutiny. According to Bunshun and other sources, Xko was summoned by her boss, Mr. A, to a drinking party where Nakai was attending. When she arrived on the scene, she found that Mr. A and the other participants were not present, and she was forced to have a one-on-one with Nakai.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> After that, there was serious trouble between the two. Some people said to Xko, &#8216;If you don&#8217;t like it, why don&#8217;t you just go home,&#8217; but there is no way a young station employee could do such a thing to Nakai-san, who is a natural.</span></p>
<p> A source at the TV station said, &#8220;There is no way a young station employee can do such a thing to the younger Nakai-san.</p>
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<p> Because of this, Bunshun and the Internet are pointing out that Xko was &#8220;paid up. In response, Fuji posted the following statement on its website</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The content of the article contains untruths, 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. He was not even aware of the existence of the meeting, nor was he suddenly absent on the day of the meeting.</span></p>
<p> Nakai denies everything.</p>
<p> Nakai&#8217;s &#8220;allegations&#8221; are not a matter of concern to other bureaus.</p>
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<h2>Nakai&#8217;s agent said, &#8220;No third party was involved in any way.&#8221;</h2>
<p> The sense of caution grew last fall when rumors of Nakai&#8217;s ugliness surfaced in some quarters, and last month&#8217;s simultaneous reports opened a Pandora&#8217;s box. There are reports that stations other than Fuji have launched investigations to see if there are any similar problems. According to a TV person who has been in the industry for more than 30 years, &#8220;Nowadays, you can watch TV on YouTube.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> He said, &#8220;Television has long reigned as the &#8216;king&#8217; of the media industry, although it has now been overtaken by social networking services such as YouTube. There were many cases of excessive entertainment from TV stations to big-name celebrities, and conversely, there were many cases of executives of TV stations being entertained by major production companies. I have heard that some of them were even treated with &#8220;meatballs.</span></p>
<p> The people who are more likely to make a mistake than younger station staff are veteran station staff who have been steeped in the industry.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> They have lost their senses,&#8221; he said. Even looking at the news report on Mr. Nakai, there are some people who would say, &#8216;We paid 90 million yen for him, but it&#8217;s a disaster for him, too. The stations are picking up such &#8220;potential troublemakers&#8221; and checking to see if they have any troubles around them.</span></p>
<p> In the process of this investigation, it is said that a &#8220;byproduct&#8221; of the investigation is the discovery of past infidelities within the station.</p>
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<p> As for the future, Nakai&#8217;s attorney, with Fuji A in mind, stated, &#8220;No third party is involved in this matter.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> A., and that &#8220;no third party is involved in any way.</span></p>
<p> If we are to believe this, it would be a mistake to believe that the affair is a conspiracy.</p>
<p> If we are to believe him, the trouble is between Nakai and Ms. X and not between the two of them.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> If we are to believe him, the trouble was between Nakai and Ms. X, and it will probably end with only Mr. Nakai being cut off.</span></p>
<p> Behind the scenes, we can see the &#8220;darkness&#8221; of the TV industry, which wants to &#8220;end&#8221; with Nakai alone. It seems that this is not a good time to take this opportunity to drain out the pus.</p>


 Shinji Hasuo

 Masahiro Nakai's "90 million yen" trouble with a woman still does not seem to have subsided even after more than a year. Not only Fuji Television, the epicenter of the trouble, but also other TV stations are said to be scared that "we might be next...". The reason for this can be found at ......

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