Yakult’s “star of promise” is out of the lineup after the season… “After” the “bogus” pregnancy trouble with his adulterous partner.

Yakult Swallows pitcher Yuto Kanekubo (26), a “star of promise,” was involved in a “bogged-down pregnancy trouble with an adulterous partner. The following is a look back based on an article we distributed on September 19, 1925.

The Full Story of the Pregnancy Troubles

He tricked me into having an affair with him without my knowledge, and when I got pregnant, he asked me to abort the pregnancy. …… This is just too much.

Ako, who lives in Tokyo, said with a sad face, “He” is a man who has been cheating on me for years. The “boyfriend” is Yakult’s promising right-handed pitcher, Yuto Kanekubo. She and Kanegubo have a child together.

Kanegubo is a pitcher of the “Murakami Generation,” who participated in the Senbatsu Tournament at Tokai University Ichihara Mochiyo High School and was drafted fifth overall in 2006 by the Yakult baseball team. He won his first professional game in 2009, and is a promising star who has been named as a candidate for the next ace.

What on earth does it mean that Kanegubo was “cheated”?

In October 2012, I received a DM from him on my Instagram account. To be honest, I didn’t know Kanegubo until then, but as we continued our casual exchanges, we ended up going out for dinner. I asked him, “Do you have a girlfriend? He replied, “No, I don’t have a girlfriend! I asked him if he had any desire to get married, and he replied, “No, I don’t have a girlfriend. When I asked him if he had any desire to get married, he replied, “Not until we get together.

At the end of December, they had their first meal together at a restaurant in Tokyo.

“The second time we had dinner after the new year, he said to me, ‘Let’s go out. I was attracted to his soft-spoken nature, despite his sportsmanlike appearance, and I immediately said yes. I looked in the player’s directory and on the Internet, but nowhere did it say that Kanegubo was married.

After the camp period, Ako and Kanehubo began seeing each other from April of 1925.

At first we did, but he stopped using contraception halfway through. I even had a video taken of him in the act.

Then, in June of 1925, they found out that Ako was pregnant. Kanegubo’s attitude changed drastically when she told FRIDAY about the incident, showing LINE communication and echo photos of her stomach.

When I told him about it, he brushed it off as a lie. When I showed him the echo photo, he said, ‘We were never together in the first place,’ and ‘I want you to abort.
I was convinced that he was playing with me, and when I questioned him, he confessed that he was not playing with me, but that he was actually a divorced man and that it was too soon for him to take responsibility and remarry. Do you even have children?’ I asked him, ‘Yes,’ he said. Moreover, he told me that his divorce had not yet been finalized when he committed the act with me. To tell the truth, I was completely blindsided.

In July 1925, when Ako visited the coffee shop to discuss the matter, Kanehubo handed her 60,000 yen in the name of abortion expenses.

She said, “I can’t have an abortion for 60,000 yen. He said, ‘We’ll split it with you. …… I was so disgusted by his irresponsible attitude that I initially thought about aborting the child, but the child is innocent. I could not take away the life of a child for the convenience of the parents.

A shocking fact was also discovered. Kanegubo was not even divorced.

“In retrospect, no matter how much I asked him, he wouldn’t let me into his house, saying, ‘My house is dirty. I thought it was suspicious, but I had no idea that he was still living with his wife and child.

FRIDAY interviewed Kanegubo directly to find out how he is taking the “series of pregnancy troubles.

–I would like to ask you about Ms. Ako. Is it true that you approached her by DM and demanded an abortion when you found out she was pregnant, even though you have a wife and child?

It is true, but we are getting divorced soon. In the meantime, we are living together. …… But it’s been decided.”

–So you are still married?

Yes, and it was my fault to begin with,……, but she is also demanding money in the name of child support from Child A. She is asking for something like 30 million yen. I wonder if the purpose of this is to get money in the first place. ……. I also receive slanderous remarks on my LINE. It is indeed harsh.”

Ms. A countered, “They are not paying for my child’s upkeep, at least.

When I told him that I wanted him to at least pay child support for our child, he said, ‘I don’t want to be involved anymore. If that’s too much trouble for you, then you should just pay it in one lump sum, because the average child support from age 0 to adulthood is 30 million yen.

Otherwise, don’t tell me you don’t want to be involved anymore,’ I said. Besides, he was hiding the fact that he had a wife and child and was having an affair with her, so it was only natural that his words would be stronger. I don’t agree with the way he talks about it as if I am a beauty pageant.

I didn’t approach him in the first place, he sent me the DMs, and I didn’t tell him that I had a wife and child. I returned the 60,000 yen for the ″abortion fee″ to him.”

The lawyer representing Kanegubo told the interviewer , “We cannot answer this question because it is a matter of privacy, but at least there is no such thing as unauthorized filming (during sexual intercourse). Mr. Kanehubo was intimidated by Ms. A, and we were having a hard time dealing with the situation.

Yakult, to which Kanegubo belongs, responded to the interview , “There are some facts that are not true, and we are discussing how to deal with them with our lawyers.

Out of the lineup as rumored.

In the end, Kanegubo’s record with the first team in the 2013 season was his highest number of appearances (12), but his earned run average was 7.71, which led one team official to remark immediately after the report, “Yakult’s parent company is a publicly traded company, and they are very strict about compliance,

The parent company of Yakult is a publicly traded company, and they are very strict about compliance. There is a strong possibility that he will be removed from the team this offseason as well.

He is in a very difficult position in terms of competitiveness. True to his word, he was informed by the baseball team on September 29, 2013 that he was no longer a member of the team.

After that, Kanegubo was interviewed while he was training at Toda Stadium in Saitama,

There are a lot of things to talk about. I’m looking at the conditions, but the most common is Korea, so I’m going there,” he told “Sunspot” (November 2, ’25).

He said, “The most important thing is that I want to be able to play baseball,

I want to do my best so that I can work on baseball to the best of my ability. I want to play until I am satisfied. I have nothing but regretful results in Japan, so I would like to come back (to the NPB), but even if I play in another country, I will try my best to get results and continue playing baseball for as long as possible.

He expressed his new resolve, despite his misgivings. Then, on December 16, 2013, the Kium Heroes of the Korean Professional Baseball (KBO) announced the acquisition of Kinkubo for a total of $130,000, consisting of an annual salary of $100,000 and a piece rate of $30,000.

Kinkubo will begin his new baseball career in a foreign country in the ’26 season.