My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1553736787 for 10/30 (Wednesday).
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.
- Sponichi brings out a photo from an AKB photo session and writes a ridiculous article, which is being thoroughly flamed online, that says, “We have an exclusive 2-shot photo of Yamaguchi Maho and the assaulter!”, and “They’re showing each other’s room numbers with their fingers”.
- Maho refutes Sponichi’s fabricated story on Twitter
- Sponichi is so incredibly slanderous I don’t want anything more to do with them, but I have to say something here
- At a photo session event you will do the requested pose
- Since I’m looking at the camera I can’t really know what pose the other person is doing
- Sponichi is exceptionally terrible as they should know about these photo events from what the AKB Newspaper has done
- Members were harassed on SNS
- After I quit I was blamed for what other members had been doing
- Current members are being allowed to have private interactions with the suspects
- I haven’t given it out, but there is also audio of that
- https://i.imgur.com/WoeQPlg.png
- In her Instastory the rebuttals are mixed with revelations
- I have a good memory of it, and I also remember that it was weird
- There were lots of requests for cryptic poses like in Sponichi’s photo event images
- The “3” was a request for a “nyanya pose”
- The “6” was a request to “point at the middle of your paw”
- When I didn’t know the meaning and asked what sort of pose it was he just said, “don’t worry about it” while we were steadily being photographed
- When I think about it now, it’s so scary how overtly deliberate of an attack it was
- They admitted to the whole assault
- Since they didn’t have any connection to me, at the police station they were discussing with the management, “If we were to sell a scandal we have about other members, would NGT be finished?” (I heard this from the police)
- When they demanded money (from the suspects), they colluded with management to blame me
- It has been thoroughly confirmed that management and the suspects are in contact with each other (From the parents meeting & I heard it from someone at AKS)
- https://i.imgur.com/Wpc43NP.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/T5m2GQf.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/c5HbOB3.jpg
- A nyanya pose
- AKS and the suspect Kasai give their explanations. AKS: “We didn’t give them the photos. We aren’t involved in the article.” Kasai: “I’ve never provided an interview or offered material to the media.”
- Sponichi’s parent company Daily Shinbun also tweeted a rebuttal to Sponichi’s article
- Various media outlets such as Sports Hochi, Tokyo Sports, and Daily Sports are reporting on Sponichi’s actions and Maho’s rebuttals.
- From Sports Hochi: “Yamaguchi Maho is extremely upset by “incredibly slanderous” report on “photo linking” her to the assailant… Also suggests that she has audio evidence of private contact with current members”
- From Daily Sports: “Yamaguchi Maho angered by “incredibly slanderous” report running photo of “a connection” with assault incident assailant”
- From Oricon News: “Yamaguchi Maho refutes “incredibly slanderous” report of “photo evidence of a connection””
- Maho’s Instastory “How many times do you think you’ve encountered the dignity of Buddha?”
- https://i.imgur.com/6q25QLb.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/c5H7crw.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/hsVjyoF.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/NTrSBQ8.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/tQN48zq.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/y43c53k.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/futmR2d.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/ubmcKwH.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/Z5E4KaN.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/zGDdXha.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/Nm53bsD.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/C8W61Fn.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/YCjaA9M.jpg
- Sponichi is continuing to write articles again and again attacking Maho
- Regarding the three’s graduation performance, “Because the chasm between them and the NGT members was so deep, only one member came to see them off”
- (*In actual fact, AKS issued a directive not to participate)
- https://i.imgur.com/nuTfqW3.jpg
- They made up a story that at Murakumo’s graduation performance, “she declared that the current members were ‘white’ and unrelated to the incident”
- An article that, “Murakumo had a change of heart, and has this new information about Yamaguchi’s sudden quarrel with Nishigata!”
- They describe the suspect as the, “male victim”
- They run a large article of the part written in the legal brief where the suspects claim a connection
- Regarding the three’s graduation performance, “Because the chasm between them and the NGT members was so deep, only one member came to see them off”
- Tanaka Hidetomi and Habu Yoshiharu’s wife reference the Sponichi article and Maho’s rebuttals
- A Zaikei Shinbun writer tells about a story from a certain (unrelated) official.
- “After Yamaguchi quit, if she talked about the incident, AKS planned to go on the offensive and accuse her of being at fault”
- “But since she didn’t touch on it at all, they decided to bring out the accusations and stir things up themselves”
- https://i.imgur.com/qMN59Uh.png
- When the Sankei Shinbun was called up to complain that, “Your former reporter is damaging Sankei’s reputation”, they responded,
- “This has to do with Saegusa, right.”
- https://i.imgur.com/aQ4t8cT.png
- Rena and Riko’s tweets
- Photobook editor Kodera Tomoko has Maho’s photobook in her Instastory.
- Makeup artist Yoshikawa Yasuo quotes Maho’s Instastory in his own.
- Sugahara Riko’s good friend, AKB48 Team 8’s Hashimoto Haruna “likes” Maho’s tweets.
- (She had also revealed that at Maho’s last handshake event, AKS ordered AKB members not go to her send-off. She also posted an Instastory with emojis for the three of them.)
- https://i.imgur.com/HSNJA2A.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/rvLIyUH.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/5so6eXJ.jpg
- https://i.imgur.com/ArtdxBD.jpg
- Majisuka Gakuen and Shin Mimibukuro director Toyoshima Keisuke “likes” Maho’s tweets.
- [He also directed “Who Killed Tokuyama Daigoro?“]
- https://i.imgur.com/rehk4B6.png
- Story written in the comments of the YouTube video with the full audio recording, “When I heard the current NGT wotas’ side of things, I had no idea how unspeakably terrible those guys were”.
- [TV shows] Su-Matan!, Ohayo Asahi, TV Asahi’s Good!Morning, and Mentai Waido reported on the Sponichi article as it is, with their entertainment reporters repeating the slanders against Maho.
- NGT-related articles
- From Josei Jishin: “Continued support for Yamaguchi Maho’s Twitter rebuttals! Voices request for a calm response”
- From NetLab: “Yamaguchi Maho refutes report of “private exchanges with male assailant”, exposes her unpleasant feelings “I don’t want anything more to do with them”, “it’s just too awful” — Yamaguchi: “It’s exceptionally terrible because they should know the setup of a photo event”
- From Wezzy: “Is NGT48 lying, fabricating a “connection” between Yamaguchi Maho and the suspects?”
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