<figure id="attachment_469242" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-469242" style="width: 1848px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d97a5055"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2026/05/a6faf6270929be47064ca51bd569b480.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-469242" class="wp-caption-text">Former director Shinnosuke Abe, who was forced to take off his uniform as a director due to his arrest, &#8230;&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
<h2><span class="strongInContent"> He grabbed him by the collar and threw him off.</span></h2>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> He grabbed Abe by the lapels and threw him to the ground, &#8220;I am filled with a sense of deep apology for tarnishing the name of a traditional manager of the Giants.</span></p>
<p> Shinnosuke Abe, 47, was arrested on May 25 for assaulting his eldest daughter (18) and released before dawn on May 26. He held a press conference at the Yomiuri Shimbun&#8217;s Tokyo headquarters in Tokyo before noon on the same day, apologized with tears in his eyes, and announced that he would resign as manager.</p>
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<p> The news was first reported on the evening of May 25.</p>
<p> At around 6 p.m., when Abe tried to stop a fight between his daughters at his home in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, he became angry when his eldest daughter retorted, grabbed her by the collar, threw her down, and otherwise assaulted her.</p>
<p> The eldest daughter then took to AI&#8217;s chat GPT.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> &#8220;I was assaulted by my father.</span></p>
<p> and was urged to report the incident to the Child Guidance Center. The Child Guidance Center deemed the situation urgent, and the police went to Abe&#8217;s home and arrested him in the act.</p>
<p> At the press conference, a letter said to have been written by his eldest daughter was read out by a representative.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I am the one who is most surprised by the arrival of the police, and when I saw my father being taken away by the police, I broke down in tears right in front of him. （Please be assured that my father and I have already made peace with each other.</span></p>
<p> The family&#8217;s voice touched many people&#8217;s hearts, but it did not end as a mere family quarrel.</p>
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<p> Abe met with Giants owner Yamaguchi on the morning of the same day and tendered his resignation, which was accepted. Mr. Yamaguchi also said</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The director&#8217;s violence was a very serious incident, and his resignation was inevitable.</span></p>
<p> The director&#8217;s violence was a very serious incident, and his resignation was inevitable.</p>
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<h2><span class="strongInContent">The &#8220;notice&#8221; came quickly.</span></h2>
<p> The Yomiuri Group&#8217;s quickness is not limited to Mr. Abe&#8217;s &#8220;immediate cutoff. A source at NTV told this website, &#8220;When we received the news of Mr. Abe&#8217;s case, we immediately sent him a message.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> When we received the news of Mr. Abe&#8217;s case, we immediately received a notice. The word &#8220;manager&#8221; of the Giants could not be avoided, but we were told not to use the uniform or the Giants&#8217; logo. At the same time, the programming department must have also contacted each program.</span></p>
<p> NTV&#8217;s &#8220;news zero,&#8221; which was the first to report the news, as well as affiliated TV stations, the Yomiuri Shimbun of the Yomiuri Group, and Sports Hochi did not use Abe in his uniform in their initial reports.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> I checked other TV programs and sports papers, and Yomiuri was the only one, including Nippon TV, that did not use any images or photos of Abe in his Giants uniform. Since Abe is the current manager of the Giants, it would be normal to use him in his uniform. I was surprised at the way they handled the situation, as if to say that the Giants and Abe had nothing to do with it and that it was an incident that Abe personally caused on his own.</span></p>
<p> Tsuneo Watanabe (98 years old), the former owner of the Giants, had strictly disciplined the players under the motto &#8220;Always be a gentleman&#8221; and &#8220;Be a role model for working people. Was this quick response really a gentlemanly response? &#8230;&#8230;</p>
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 The resignation of former manager Shinnosuke Abe just before the interleague game was triggered by his arrest for assaulting his daughter. His arrest for assaulting his daughter was the trigger, but what stood out behind the scenes was the Yomiuri Group's move to "immediately cut off" Mr. Abe. ......

Don’t use it!” NTV avoided former manager Shinnosuke Abe’s “uniform”.

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