NGT48 Assault Case Summary for October 22, 2019

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1553736787 for 10/22 (Tuesday).

Note: I try to repeat the Japanese thread as closely as possible here. Where I do make some editorial additions I’ll put them in [ ], though I do occasionally soften the posters’ tone.

• Maho will have the opening gravure and supplement in Young Animal
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• Rena’s tweets
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• (Revised 3/29/2020 with contribution from @speranzom)
  Takkentaro: “NGT48, Reconstructing the court’s preparatory papers (defendant side) with the help of memory, “Wouldn’t you present the voice recording data?” No. 1
  • “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ZwJjkTDqs
  • (* The pictures in blue background are excerpts from the plaintiff’s original complaint)
  • Since the alphabet notation “I” would get mistaken with a 1, they say they aren’t using it.
  • Regarding the claim from the defendant’s side, they say that there was no assault act.
  • That is, using to his advantage that there’s no evidence around, the criminal molester is telling that such a thing never happened in the first place
  • The defendants are also agreeing to a sizable part of the lawsuit complaint of AKS, the plaintiff.
  • One of the things the plaintiff acknowledged to is the part which says, “Harmful actions of the defendants (see picture with blue background)
    • ”Here, they acknowledge the part about how they asked for information before [Maho] was ambushed
  • But to be completely accurate, there is a part they are denying, saying that the assault incident didn’t occur, that they didn’t clutch her face.
  • They also assert that there was no case of them conspiring together, in regards to the assault incident
  • The assertion from the defendant side that there was no such case of aggression looks to me as rather questionable.
    • In a condition where nothing did take place, you wouldn’t end up being arrested and undergoing investigation until the maximum extent of the police custody period
  • Didn’t the police see how the case of aggression was real, if anything?
  • But nonetheless, again, the question of whether they conspired together, whether or not they went there with the explicit purpose of committing an aggression is a separate issue
  • About the part of the plaintiff’s lawsuit complaint going, “After said physical assault took place, Miss Yamaguchi contacted B, etc…”
    • Since “After the physical assault” is attached to it as a premise, the defendants’ side is denying it, on the claim that they didn’t commit an physical assault.
  • Up until the part about how they headed toward the public park, both the plaintiff and the defendants are of the same mind.
  • Afterwards, in the plaintiff’s lawsuit complaint it goes on to say that the [staff’s] bus then arrived and they went on to have a conversation inside
    • If the chronological order is right, then it would mean that the conversation inside the bus was recorded
  • Now, in the defendant’s preparatory papers they make no kind of mention to them being inside of the bus. That doesn’t mean they are denying it, either.“
    • Since the conversation at the public park was being recorded”, wouldn’t you present the recording? — they are instead saying.
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• Police in Japan will not bring you in merely for “suspicions” you committed a minor offense
  • What does it mean that Tano and Nishigata have not been brought in?
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• Today’s Niigata Nippo
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• Maho’s tweet
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• Riko’s tweet
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• Rena’s Instastory
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• Tano provoking things in her Instastory?
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• Maho’s tweet
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