Nintendo is pulling advertisements from airing at the Jap station Fuji Tv (Fuji TV) following an ongoing intercourse scandal centred round Masahiro Nakai, one of the most station’s greatest hosts.
As reported by way of Nikkei (thank you, Automaton), in December 2024, a 90 million yen ($569,000) out-of-court agreement adopted reviews alleging that Nakai — additionally a former member of the vastly in style boy band SMAP — had sexually assaulted an unnamed lady in 2023 at a company-arranged dinner.
Nintendo joins round 50 corporations boycotting the channel, together with the likes of Nissan and Toyota.
Even supposing preliminary reviews didn’t right away reason corporations to start out pulling advertisements, a next press convention from Fuji TV led many to accuse the station of missing each transparency and regret. Fuji TV President Koichi Minato additionally stated that the corporate knew of the incident over six months previous to the reviews, however didn’t divulge it publicly.
Nakai issued a remark in January announcing that the “bother” had “all resulted from my shortcomings”. Fuji TV has now reportedly employed exterior legal professionals to research the scandal.
