NGT48 Assault Case Summary for April 15, 2020

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1553736787 for 4/15 (Wednesday).

• Riko’s tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/5QNATO6.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/cHiXOtR.png
• Rena’s tweet
  • https://i.imgur.com/g2RojrZ.png
• Sankei publishes part of the NGT trial settlement stipulations and the text of the apology.
  • https://i.imgur.com/pIA35Wl.png
  • Settlement stipulations
    • The two men will apologize to the former management company
    • They will pay 2.4M yen in damages within 5 years
    • They will not participate in any events of the AKB48 Group, which includes NGT48
    • If they damage the reputation or image of the AKB48 Group they will pay a 10M yen penalty for breach of contract
  • Text of the apology
    • https://i.imgur.com/wJh70Nw.png
  • From The Sankei News: “NGT48 civil trial — Full text of the two male fans’ apology, restitution is 2.4M yen”
    • https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20200415-00000509-san-soci
    • https://www.sankei.com/smp/affairs/news/200415/afr2004150001-s1.html
• Attorney Takahashi
  • The stipulations of the settlement were likely disclosed by the management company
  • The request to draft an apology letter was done under the assumption it would be made public by the media
  • This case was about the assault done by the defendants, not about the claim that other members were involved
  • And yet it is a feature of this apology text, put in assuming it would be made public, that it emphasizes “reiterating that the NGT members were not at all involved” as an essential detail
  • https://i.imgur.com/MujZutd.png
• Kitahara Rie writes in her blog that she played Animal Crossing with Murakumo Fuka and Yamada Noe
  • https://i.imgur.com/ArdQFhj.jpg
  • https://ameblo.jp/kitahara-rie/entry-12589682867.html
  • A few days ago Nakai posted in her Instastory that she played with Murakumo and Nakamura Ayuka
    • https://i.imgur.com/KNolH9b.jpg
  • In a Showroom, Seiji Reina also said she’d talked with Murakumo on the phone
    • https://i.imgur.com/taVtnea.png
    • https://mobile.twitter.com/sr_ngt_48/status/1250067805866729473
• It seems Takken Taro has figured out the location of Flora Co.
  • https://i.imgur.com/5OhoSbj.png
• Takken Taro video: “NGT — Takken Taro is right on the mark!! ‘A rotten settlement’ ‘with no secret clauses pending” and the ‘defendants’ apology'”
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEkI3F1HEKA&feature=youtu.be

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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