<figure id="attachment_449264" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-449264" style="width: 3533px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d32642bf"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/12/cffb85fad1e5bf82b1ec002fe5bd763f-1.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-449264" class="wp-caption-text">Masahiro Matsuoka (right) and leader Shigeru Johjima questioned NTV over the compliance issue of Taichi Kokubun (left)</figcaption></figure>
<h2> Nippon TV &#8220;doesn&#8217;t need to answer the question.&#8221;</h2>
 Are celebrities people or things?
 Former TOKIO member Masahiro Matsuoka (48)&#8217;s &#8220;Preparedness Confession&#8221; poses such a question.
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 In June of this year, Kunibun Taichi (51) was interviewed by NTV&#8217;s &#8220;The! DASH ministry! DASH ministry&#8221; staff. Kokubu was dropped from the program and TOKIO was disbanded.
 Kokubu was furious, but Nippon TV would not reveal the nature of the offense. On November 26, Kokubu, unable to move, held a press conference in the presence of his representative to ask Nippon TV what the violation was.
 &#8220;I want to answer the question.
 In response, Kunibuchi appealed to Nittele&#8217;s Hiroyuki Fukuda, the director of Nittele, for an answer.
 In response, Nippon TV President Hiroyuki Fukuda said at a regular press conference on December 1, &#8220;From the viewpoint of victim protection
 In response, Nittele President Hiroyuki Fukuda said at a regular press conference on December 1, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think it is necessary to answer the question. In light of the wishes of the parties concerned, NTV believes that no further action is necessary.
 The NTV dismissed the matter.
 Matsuoka was the one who opened his mouth.
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 In an interview with the December 4 issue of Shukan Bunshun and Shukan Shincho, he questioned the lack of explanation from the station regarding Kokubu&#8217;s departure from &#8220;Tetsuwan DASH. President Fukuda told Matsuoka and Shigeru Johjima (55)
 President Fukuda said to Matsuoka and Shigeru Jojima (55), &#8220;You will continue to appear on the show.&#8221;
 Matsuoka told &#8220;Shukan Bunshun&#8221; the following about this.
 I thought, &#8216;Ah, finally we don&#8217;t have a choice anymore. I frankly wondered what position we should take and how we should deal with the program from now on. Since there is no explanation, we are left wondering, &#8220;What on earth is this?
 Entertainers are &#8220;products,&#8221; and their agencies enter into appearance contracts with TV stations. If the station wants to put them on the air, they receive an offer, and vice versa. The ups and downs are partly due to the fact that celebrities do not have the authority to make decisions.
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<h2> Even within the station, there are voices saying, &#8220;There must be a better way to say it.</h2>
 One entertainment industry insider said, &#8220;Tetsuwan DASH is a long-running program that celebrated its 30th anniversary this year,
 Tetsuwan DASH is a long-running program that celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. For Mr. Matsuoka and Mr. Jojima, it would be strange for them not to share the reason for Mr. Kokubun&#8217;s departure from the program, with whom they have shared many years of hardship. At the root of the matter is the low status of TV personalities. When you get right down to it, is a talent a thing or a person &#8211; is it a person? Ms. Matsuoka&#8217;s confession &#8220;sticks&#8221; with many entertainers.
 He expressed his sympathy.
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 Even within Nippon TV, there is a difference in temperature regarding Kokubu&#8217;s response.
 President Fukuda and other top management are furious with Kokubu for violating compliance and filing a human rights complaint without prior notice. This is because &#8220;human rights&#8221; is the word to which TV stations are most sensitive.
 On the other hand, at the production site
 Kunibun&#8217;s act is unforgivable.
 On the other hand, there are those on the production floor who feel uncomfortable with the station&#8217;s response to the situation.
 For example, President Fukuda said at the press conference
 &#8220;We don&#8217;t even need to answer the question.
 at the press conference. One Nippon TV official said
 One person involved with Nippon TV said, &#8220;Mr. Kokubun is a person who has made a great contribution to Nippon TV. Many employees of Nittele feel that there must be a better way to say it.
 President Fukuda was appointed president of Nittele in 1985.
 President Fukuda joined Nippon TV in 1985. He was promoted to General Manager of the Sales Promotion Department in 2007, then to General Manager of the Business Promotion Department of the Programming Strategy Center in 2009, then to General Manager of the Programming Department in 2011, and finally to General Manager of the Production Department in 2002, before being appointed Director and General Manager of the Programming Department in 2006. In 2006, he was appointed to the position of Director and Head of the Programming Department. This year, he began serving as President and Representative Director of Nippon TV.
 He is from the programming field, so he has a dry side to him. He saw the enormous damage that Fuji Television suffered from the Masahiro Nakai incident, so he probably cut off Kokubu before it became a major problem. It is not a wrong management decision, but I think it would have been better if they had dealt with Mr. Kokubu a little more in terms of after-the-fact care, or rather, in terms of &#8216;emotion.
 Therefore, this website interviewed NTV about the Kokubu issue.
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 Q. Were there any problems with NTV&#8217;s handling of former TOKIO members Matsuoka and Jojima?
 We have been in careful dialogue with Mr. Matsuoka and Mr. Jojima, who are important performers, either directly or through STARTO ENTERTAINMENT Inc. and TOKIO Corporation, and we have tried to communicate our thoughts firmly to them and to talk to them about how they feel. We would like to talk to them so that we can receive their feelings.&#8221;
 Q. Mr. Kokubun stated many times during the press conference that he would like to &#8220;answer the question.
 I hope you will find that Mr. Taichi Kokubun&#8217;s response to the press conference was discussed in detail at our regular press conference on December 1.
 I hope you will check it out.
 It is said that within the station, voices of uneasiness about President Fukuda&#8217;s &#8220;stand&#8221; are increasing day by day. There is no doubt that the entire entertainment industry is watching closely to see what NTV will do.

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