Among numerous business pulling advertisements
- by Ollie Reynolds Yesterday, 1pm
Nintendo is pulling commercials from airing on the Japanese station Fuji Television (Fuji television) following a continuous sex scandal centred around Masahiro Nakai, among the station's most significant hosts.
As reported by Nikkei (thanks, Automaton), in December 2024, a 90 million yen ($569,000) out-of-court settlement followed reports declaring that Nakai– likewise a previous member of the extremely popular young boy band SMAP– had actually sexually attacked an unnamed female in 2023 at a company-arranged supper.
Nintendo signs up with around 50 business boycotting the channel, consisting of the similarity Nissan and Toyota.
Preliminary reports did not right away trigger business to begin pulling advertisements, a subsequent press conference from Fuji Television led lots of to implicate the station of doing not have both openness and regret. Fuji Television President Koichi Minato likewise acknowledged that the business understood of the occurrence over 6 months prior to the reports, however stopped working to reveal it openly.
Nakai provided a declaration in January stating that the “problem” had “all arised from my imperfections”. Fuji television has actually now supposedly worked with external attorneys to examine the scandal.
[source nikkei.com, via automaton-media.com]
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