<figure id="attachment_416554" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-416554" style="width: 1210px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b8293503"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/03/045159ef287ab5a81eb90240606448ee.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-416554" class="wp-caption-text">Masahiro Nakai has retired from show business. Since the first news was reported, TV stations have had mixed reactions. &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2> If only Mr. Nakai had been aware of the retirement-level scandal.</h2>
<p> Masahiro Nakai, 52, has disappeared from the entertainment world. It all started with a woman trouble reported in the December 19 issue of &#8220;Josei Seven&#8221; last year. About two and a half months have passed since then.</p>
<p> The presidents of all major commercial TV networks except Fuji Television and TV Tokyo recently held regular press conferences in rapid succession to review how they handled the situation at the time.</p>
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<p> What NTV, TBS, and TV Asahi had in common was that they were informed in advance by Nakai&#8217;s side that the article would be published before the release of Women&#8217;s Seven. At that point, the details of the trouble were not explained.</p>
<p> NTV broadcasts &#8220;The!　Sekai Ohten News&#8221; for NTV, &#8220;Masahiro Nakai&#8217;s Friday Smile Tatsu&#8221; and &#8220;THE MC3&#8221; for TBS, and &#8220;Masahiro Nakai&#8217;s Saturday Night Club&#8221; for TV Asahi. A TV station official recalls.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> At the time, we didn&#8217;t imagine that it would cause such a big commotion. If Nakai himself had been aware that it was a retirement-level scandal, he would have announced at that point that he would not appear on the show. However, I am told that no such announcement was made.&#8221;</span></p>
<p> TV Tokyo, which aired &#8220;Entertainment World All-Star Kusayakyu 2024&#8221; on December 30 last year, did not receive any advance notice from Nakai&#8217;s side, perhaps because it was a one-off program, according to President Ichiro Ishikawa,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> President Ichiro Ishikawa said, &#8220;I first learned of this incident through a report in a weekly magazine in late December.</span></p>
<p> President Ichiro Ishikawa said, &#8220;I first learned of this incident through a weekly magazine report in mid-December.</p>
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<p> The tide turned in the December 26 issue of Shukan Bunshun. The headline read &#8220;SEX SCANDAL,&#8221; and it became clear that the nature of the trouble was sexual in nature and that the victim woman&#8217;s anger had not abated.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The headline of the Women&#8217;s Seven, which reported the news, read, &#8220;Masahiro Nakai overcame women&#8217;s troubles with huge sums of money. The details of what happened were withheld, but it was written that a settlement had been reached with a 90 million yen settlement fee and that the trouble had been &#8220;resolved. It is not surprising that the mood was optimistic, saying, &#8220;If this is the content of the article, it should be &#8230;&#8230;.&#8221; However, according to the content of the Bunshun article, although a settlement had been reached, the woman&#8217;s side was not satisfied, and there were indications that more specific reports would follow. Moreover, the term &#8220;sex scandal&#8221; was heavily used in the report. In today&#8217;s TV industry, sexual problems are not tolerated. All the stations were in an uproar from top to bottom, and they were discussing what to do about Nakai&#8217;s program day after day.</span></p>
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<h2>TV stations regretted that they should have gone further into the issue.</h2>
<p> When it was learned that Nakai&#8217;s &#8220;Kim Summa&#8221; cancelled the recording of the new year&#8217;s episode at the same time as the release of the Bunshun article, all the TV stations followed suit. From there, Nakai&#8217;s career spiraled downward until he retired from show business. According to a source at another TV station, &#8220;In hindsight, I think Nakai was the first to retire from show business.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In retrospect, when Nakai first explained to us that the article would appear in a weekly magazine, we should have gone into it more. At the time, Nakai was a top celebrity in the entertainment world. It is easy to imagine that the bureau, not knowing what Women&#8217;s Seven would write about him, would have said, &#8216;Let&#8217;s not pry too much into the matter. Moreover, the fact that a &#8220;settlement&#8221; had been reached was a &#8220;reassuring&#8221; factor for the TV station.</span></p>
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<p> As is the case with Downtown&#8217;s Matsumoto Hitoshi (61), there are TV personalities who sometimes have more influence than the TV stations. The root of the series of troubles lies in the fact that such big names have been treated in a special way.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The backstage area for the bigwigs is a special room, their lunches are different from those of other cast members, and several humidifiers are specially set up in their rooms. When they arrive at the station, they are greeted by all the executives, and the post-recording dinner is paid for entirely by the station. If a big shot says, &#8216;I&#8217;d like to meet her,&#8217; we do our best to cast her. The casting authority is essentially with the station. Because this kind of thing has been going on for so long, when a big name does something wrong, there is hesitation, and the initial response is delayed,&#8221; said a reporter in charge of entertainment at a sports newspaper.</span></p>
<p> Aside from Fuji TV, which was involved in the incident, and TV Tokyo, which was not contacted by Nakai, the remaining three commercial broadcasters&#8217; responses were as follows: TBS last saw Nakai on December 9 for &#8220;The MC3&#8221; and on December 13 for &#8220;Kinsuma&#8221;. He has not appeared since the first Women&#8217;s Seven report.</p>
<p> Mr. Nakai&#8217;s last appearance on NTV was on the December 27 broadcast of &#8220;Nakai no Mado&#8221;. He also appeared on TV Asahi after the report, with &#8220;Saturday Night Party&#8221; on December 21.</p>
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<p> The first was that both Nippon TV and TV Asahi had reported that the matter had been &#8220;resolved,&#8221; and the second was that Mr. Nakai was a major celebrity. When asked if these two factors influenced the decision to continue using Nakai after the report, NTV&#8217;s public relations department responded</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> However, there were many details that remained unclear, and we had no basis for making a decision to suspend the broadcast of &#8220;Nakai no Madoka: Nakai&#8217;s Window&#8221; Resurrection SP on December 27. After Mr. Nakai visited our office at the beginning of the year and we had a dialogue with him, on January 7, &#8220;The!　Sekai Oyoten News&#8221; on January 7 was broadcast with scenes featuring Mr. Nakai cut, based on a comprehensive judgment. After that, we decided to ask him to step down from the program. NTV will continue to take appropriate measures in accordance with our human rights policy.</span></p>
<p> NTV responded by e-mail. TV Asahi&#8217;s public relations department responded by fax</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> We have been closely monitoring the situation, but since the truth is still unclear, we have suspended the program for the time being from the beginning of the year, and after that, based on various opinions from viewers and the response of advertisers, we have decided that the program is not in an environment to continue broadcasting, and have terminated it. (To the question about Nakai being a big shot, I answered, &#8220;No, nothing like you have pointed out.</span></p>
<p> He responded, &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t.</p>
<p> Even Nakai, who is a &#8220;major celebrity,&#8221; has disappeared from the entertainment industry. The TV stations should have been a little more careful in their response.</p>


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 Masahiro Nakai's "trouble with women" has called into question not only Fuji Television Network, but also the "state" of television stations. It was revealed that Nakai had contacted the stations before the release of the first "Josei Seven" report. ......

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Masahiro Nakai “contacted” the TV stations in advance…but the TV stations were looking the other way because of the “resolved issue” and the “special treatment” of the big-name celebrities.

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