Controversy reignited in Japanese entertainment industry
Ayaka Ogawa, the main announcer of TBS broadcasting. Photo = TBS broadcast screen.
[아시아경제 김봉주 기자] As Ayaka Ogawa, 35, a signboard announcer on TBS in Japan, said that she apologized for her husband’s affair, the controversy over “why the victim of the affair apologizes?
On the 3rd (local time), the Weekly Munchun, a weekly magazine, reported the news of the affair with Ogawa’s husband, Toyota Koichiro, 36.
My husband’s affair, who is the CEO of Medley, a medical venture company, was a web designer the same age as Ogawa.
It is reported that Toyota has been in the woman’s house several times and committing an affair even after an emergency was declared in Tokyo due to a novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) on the 8th of last month.
Ogawa is the main anchor of the TBS wide news program’News23′. Her husband, Toyota, is an elite doctor and entrepreneur from the University of Tokyo medical school. The two married in February 2019 after a year of dating and held their first child in July last year. Ogawa returned to the broadcast after three months of giving birth and confessed her working mother’s grievances.
Toyota said, “As a husband and as a representative of the company, I deeply repent and apologize for disappointing many people with my foolish behavior as a husband and representative of the company.”
Ogawa also apologized for her husband’s affair.
Ogawa said, “I am very sorry that my husband’s behavior was revealed even though it was declared an emergency situation (due to the aftermath of Corona 19).”
Netizens said, “Is the affair the wife’s fault?” “Why should my wife, who is the victim, apologize?” “It seems like she thinks her husband as a child. Oh, I’m sorry I raised it wrong.”
Recently, in the entertainment and sports world in Japan, the wife apologizes for the husband’s affair, and criticism has been created.
In September of last year, Daiya Seto, 27, a national swimmer, posted a handwritten apology with his wife Yuka Seto (26, former diving national team) when an affair scandal broke out against him. In particular, the wife posted more apology than her husband, which was controversial.
In June of last year, news of an affair with famous comedian Ken Watabe, 49, was reported, and his wife, actor Nozomi Sasaki, 32, apologized through Instagram.
In January, when it was reported that Actor Masahiro Higashide, 32, had an affair with a younger than 10 years old, his wife, Actor Ahn, 33, came to an official stand and apologized.
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