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You skipped the funniest part. Between the first closed press conference and the 11 hour long conference there was one more. It was so funny and unreal I wouldn't believe if you told me. The conference was broadcasted and people were able to ask questions, but for every sensitive question they would cut away to commercials during the answer. For every single one. The whole conference was like 80% CMs and 20% some harmless content. It was a huge midle finger to their whole audience and I can't believe they thought they would get away with this. This is what lost them the few remaining sponsors and lead to that 11 hour conference, which was basicaly just a public execution, where they allowed every reporter to stone the old leadership with questions. Some people were realy happy to see these guys get bullied. My wife even cracked open a beer and watched almost the whole thing live, laughing all the way. This actualy worked well and since then the hate towards Fuji TV has cooled off a bit.
@noe-pothecary
It actually goes deeper than this. The scandal with Nakai had also exposed the internal "practices" they had. Male executives/senior management would regularly force fujitv female announcers to sleep with them. A popular youtuber called Kanon Aoki who used to work for Fuji has a video up talking more about this. She detailed her time working there and how she was coerced into having relations with an executive. He would publicly talk about her tits in front of other STAFF, her coworkers, and one time had her show them to his friends (other important people in the industry) in a restaurant in Roppongi. Basically this was an open secret in the company. Executives like the guy Kanon talked about didn't give a shit about secrecy and paraded the announcers as lovers, grabbing their wrists to drag them places like some third rate kdrama lead. They were basically pimping these women in and outside of the workplace.
@wingdingz
Just a little aside: the reason tabloids in Japan are more credible than the tabloids in the US is because their anti-slander laws in Japan are very severe. Even tabloids can't publish stories based on outright lies, so there always needs to be credible grounds for the stories to be published in any public way.
@JohnDoe-f7v8s
Fuji TV's headquarters looks like a Bond villain's orbital space laser control centre.
@Jakal_205
From genshin content, to Japanese news reporter. What a crazy ride its been Mujin.
@KoinzellGaming
I and my wife followed the scandal and I have a few additional points: 1. The leadership is mentally stunted and were incapable of adapting to the situation. Like, they literally could've fired Nakai, said "we will start a company-wide investigation to find out how and why this could happen, make sure that it will never happen again and set up whistleblowing channels for that end, also the leadership will all take a 50% pay reduction for the next 3 years and make sure to contact the victim to see if there's anything we could do for her". 2. Nakai is a horrible person, he supposedly stated that "What is the issue, I already paid her" when the story was getting out. Also it seems like she was NOT paid the promised amount of 90 million yen, which caused her to go public (this wasn't mentioned in this video). 3. The length of the (desperate) AMA shows how things weren't thought through properly. My wife watched a lot of it and it seems like a lot of members of the media kept asking the same questions throughout the speech, some media members also asked unrelated and stupid questions as well (I guess just for certain media sites to be able to claim that "we asked questions as well!").. They could've literally given 2 hours for media for questions, 1 hour to talk about the incident, investigations they had, and future contingencies they will have in place - this is all that was needed. Those old men clearly have no idea on how to do PR. 4. A big part of this situation was that the executives and the CEO weren't willing to properly apologize and promise to improve things UNTIL all the sponsors had already pulled out - this was a trainwreck from start to finish. 5. Why the hell didn't police start an investigation towards Nakai when it's clear that he committed r**e, ass**lt and blackmail? He also seemed to have bit off a part of her nip*le during the attack and she needed to get it stitched back? I guess the justice system is still at the beck and call of the elites in Japan. The big part of this incident is that it shone a light on the dark underbelly of Japanese showbusiness. Japan isn't above the Hollywood's "Weinsteins", "Diddy's" and other such people - if given power, they will abuse it all the same and such corruption has been present throughout history. Just because there's more of a public scrutiny towards celebrities in Japan, doesn't mean that they don't have similar degenerate interests as the Hollywood people have - they just bottle it up more and they tend to be more thorough in hiding it as well (due to the huge power that these big entertainment companies wield).
@esoes835
When the company is saying "We're looking if our company had those issues", remember that HR is not to protect you, it's to protect company from outside intervension.
@dewaeryadi7776
Fuji tv operates like its still the 60s 80s glory days, absolutely pathetic
@claracatlady9844
“Fun” story about Japanese work culture: the Japanese branch of the company my father used to work for, used to sent over Japanese representatives to work in the German branch for a while or collaborate on projects. There was a very infamous incident which led to Japanese HR introducing the “Cultural Sensitivity training programme” for all Japanese employees travelling to one of the European branches. It wasn’t at my father’s location but it was almost like a company legend because of just how infamous it was. Essentially an arrogant Japanese young hot shot upper management dude learned very quickly that 1. Sexually harassing your female coworker isn’t ok in Germany 2. German women are on average not afraid to socket punch you in the face if you pull shit like this 3. Subordinates will NOT gather behind you and back you up just because you are their Boss and will tell HR an accurate account of events. The even crazier part is that the Company is (for the most part) a LAW firm. This was in like 2005-2010 (I don’t remember exactly when) so you would think that this kind of behaviour would have been long gone but I guess not.
@OHYisWatching
Mujin news strike again
@Gregtami
11 hour press conference?! Holy shit. They roasted them publicly on an open fire.
@nature9490
I like how you straight up turned into a journalist😭keep up the good work😭
@Lulu-qt5vl
I can't emphasize how huge Nakai was in Japan. Culturally every person who grew up watching Japanese TV has definitely watched him. Every celebrity has interacted with him and if you end up on a TV show with him then you've "made-it" as a Japanese entertainer. He comes from one of the most influential boy band in Japan (and it's so funny because he's known for being a terrible singer lol). I hate hate hate watching these men consistently hold the lead MC roles on Japanese TV while the women TV co-hosts are only there as eye-candy assistants to elevate the male co-host. Glad to see Fuji TV burn under this scandal.
@Rose-pr2nd
At least there’s one good thing about big figures messing up in the most egregious ways, we get to hear Mujin talk about it
@KamiKazuo
Anytime my mom had the TV on, it was on the FujiTV channel. So growing up I was unfamiliar with the other networks like NHK, TV Tokyo, etc. Every Sunday morning "One Piece" would come on, and in the evenings it was "Chibi Maruko" and "Sazae San." Driving to and from Narita Airport, we'd pass by the Fuji TV building. It's actually wild to see a network that had been a huge part of my life go through a downfall to this level. Deserved but still.
@ryuukusensei
A LOTTT of Japanese companies are still doing things as if it's still the 1980's. Many of them still use fax machines to do business. Also, just in my experience anyway, whenever drinks and refreshments are served at a company, it's almost ALWAYS by a female employee. My wife was just saying the other day how she's tired of answering the phones, serving drinks, welcoming guests and such when she's in charge of doing her company's finances, not a secretary.
@MartyrPandaGaming
The adults are panicking, but the kids are loving no commercials. Edit; People in the replies: "aCksHuAlLY!"
@sirflimflam
This is a pervasive problem not just in Fuji TV, not just Japan... It's an entertainment industry wide problem across the world. We overlook it as a society because we like the entertainment, not really considering what it does to the people inside it. It's the perfect storm of ego and villainy.
@ezyuunn
japan: famous jpop idol fucks up, ruins whole tv station meanwhile, here in korea: famous current president fucks up, ruins whole government
@MujinOfficial