NGT48 Assault Case Summary for June 6, 2020

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1553736787 for 6/6 (Saturday).

• Riko’s tweet from yesterday
  • https://i.imgur.com/cU5VZow.png
• Rena’s tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/E9p9tUY.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/qtrM5VY.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/dv23ULk.png
    • https://twitter.com/seiyu_paradise/status/1269131209843466240
    • https://twitter.com/bbg_hasegawa315/status/1269250007523160064
• The Niigata newspaper gives a compact report on the big news of the release of NGT’s first single in 1 year and 9 months.
  • https://i.imgur.com/kLjpaWO.jpg
• Akimoto Yasushi is the lyricist for NGT’s new single.
  • https://i.imgur.com/rybwszj.png
• (Continued) Tweets from the person that sent an open records request regarding NGT to (the city of) Niigata.
  • Memo on the key points of AKS president Yoshinari Natsuko’s remarks (1 week after the 3rd Party Committee press conference)
    • An apology regarding the series of problems that had led up to that day
    • An explanation of the path that taken her to where she is now in her career
    • She is being very considerate in the care of [name redacted]
    • She is having in-person interviews with every member
    • She is having discussions with the members’ parents as well
    • The members are all kids with future prospects
    • The management bears the responsibility for not having been able to instruct the members
    • She is striving to strengthen the management organization
    • They will have a firm discussion with each member individually, and after that will keep on those members that are willing to continue with NGT and want to make a comeback (*1)
    • They want to begin with straightforward activities, restore trust, and operate as NGT would
  • https://i.imgur.com/43z4tgt.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/S8OtubB.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/n2vXHol.png
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  • https://i.imgur.com/hMgvJ3l.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/jZ8l6QM.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/X0S8Fy6.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/dzQZyi1.jpg
    • (*1) Related to an April 11th Bunshun article
      • [At the] NGT Emergency Group Meeting — Yoshinari: “If you’re still talking about the incident and don’t want to do activities because you detest this kid, then I don’t mind if you quit.”
        • https://i.imgur.com/QNgZoeE.jpg
• During the AKS collusion trial, Ken-On sent correspondence to the Niigata District Court to the effect of, “As Yamaguchi is assuredly the immediate victim, she is able to be an interested party in the claim for restitution”
  • https://i.imgur.com/6LDLzdD.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/q9rrI7Y.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/nlv1pry.png
  • Explanation of “Participation of an Interested Party”
    • https://i.imgur.com/oUBGo6u.jpg
• Kato Minami: “I want to put out a photobook someday” (9:18)
  • “加藤 美南KATO MINAMI 2020年06月05日220248”
    • https://youtu.be/yeJBXp1Hkx0?t=557
• One of the suspects tweets regarding the Sproot president’s comments: “If you really are feeling that way, it tells me you can’t criticize anything I say. So why are you trying to make me stay quiet?”
  • https://i.imgur.com/KUFAqA3.png
• Riko’s tweet
  • https://i.imgur.com/vhEOs7B.png
• Nishigata Marina’s mobame
  • “Remarks that I’ve always done my best up to now make me cry”
  • “When I thought about my past self, I got motivation with, ‘I just can’t give up here'”
  • “I’ve still only lived 24 years, but there have been days I’ve cried about enough tears for a whole lifetime”
  • https://i.imgur.com/LmshqQM.png

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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