TV Asahi’s “Nasdaq scandal”: “Only demotion” without announcing names, and why “other stations would fire them”?

Nas D, whose contribution to the station was unbelievable.

A charismatic director disappeared without a moment’s notice.

On March 19, TV Asahi announced that it had demoted an executive director (50) of the 2nd Production Department of the Contents Organization Bureau for power harassment of staff and inappropriate use of company expenses.

The man is Takahide Tomoyori, a.k.a. “NasD,” who is in charge of “NasD Great Adventure TV” and also appears on the show. The program’s broadcast has been terminated, and its related website and SNS have been “erased” without a trace.

What does NasD mean to a TV person?

It is a very rare case for an employee to have a regular program. The fact that the program does not require a celebrity as the main star saves on production costs, and Nasdaq’s contribution to the program is not insignificant. In the first place, the fact that a 50 year old employee is still working as a director is in itself very rare. Usually it is an annual that he/she becomes a chief producer or a general manager.

He is so unconventional that he has even starred as a director and producer, and is married to a popular TV personality at the time. On the other hand, such charismatic individuals often become the “king of nakedness” within the company. It is malicious that he was harassing them in an outside editorial office, where he is not easily seen.

In addition, from 2007 to January of this year, he misappropriated a total of approximately 5,170,000 yen by billing the company for personal dinners and other expenses.

When TV Asahi announced these facts, people on SNS and other social networking sites started to comment.

“They are too soft on their own people to just demote them.

If other stations had caused the same disturbance, he would have been fired without a doubt.

TV Asahi’s response was criticized.