NGT48 Assault Case Summary for April 5, 2020

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1553736787 for 4/5 (Sunday).

• Riko’s tweet
  • https://i.imgur.com/WkKakYn.png
• Rena’s tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/DyWo3UK.png
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irb0ofBaLl8&feature=emb_title
• (Conversation about a rumor) Was there a meeting on Friday to explain updates to their contract with their new company Flora?
  • https://i.imgur.com/kuCnetr.png
• A tweet pointing out this from the University of Tsukuba professor’s paper: “Kasai obtained seats next to Matsui Rena on the Shinkansen”
  • https://i.imgur.com/mNW8c29.png
• 2014 story about Kasai assaulting a junior high-aged female wota
  • https://i.imgur.com/OSHeQCh.png
    • https://i.imgur.com/zflnDVu.jpg
• Takken Taro video: “Reading Professor Hirayama’s editorial, “The NGT48 Problem — Results of a 4th-party investigation””
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKzWrR9KZHk

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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.

Why is this here? My original announcement