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Shukan Bunshun had published two scandalous articles about two AKB48 members. One was Minami Takahashi's mother arrested for committing a lewd act with an underage boy. The other one was more recent with Rino Sashihara's ex-boyfriend talking about their past romance and releasing photos. These two stories greatly damaged AKB48's innocent image. AKB48's general producer Yasushi Akimoto has now decided to use AKB48's concert publishing rights to exchange with the publisher. In return, the publisher has to stop writing any stories that might damage the image of AKB48. This exchange has been labeled in the entertainment industry as an "evil reconciliation".
AKB48 already has 8 singles that sold over 1 million copies. They are constantly making money and was one of the highest earning musical acts in the world in 2011. Shukan Bunshun's two published article were damaging to AKB48. Akimoto knows that there will be much more, and even heard that the magazine are holding on to more Rino Sashihara pictures; some that are worse than the ones posted. If Akimoto could not tell the publisher to be quiet about it, then he might as well work with them.
It has been reported that the two parties will reconcile on the terms of AKB48's Tokyo Dome concert in August and Atsuko Maeda's official graduation. The publishing rights of these two events will be given to Shukan Bunshun's publisher Bunshun to print and publish. There were news that AKB48 had already reconciled with other magazine companies including FRIDAY and FLASH, that is why those magazines had dropped writing any news regarding AKB48.
With AKB48's Tokyo Dome concert in August and Maeda's graduation, both news are extremely big and any publisher with information on it will sell very well.
| Band name | AKB48 |
| Band type | girlband (91 members) |
| Debut | 8 December, 2005 (active) |
| Label | AKS, DefStar Records, King Records/You! Be Cool |
| Official website | http://www.akb48.co.jp/ |
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Hopefully this will work...
I think.. this is.. intelligent. XD
akb48 -__-!!! lol
Akimoto Yasushi looks like a father protecting his children. I was touched by his bravery.
People who read this article: I beg you, don't ever become like these "magazine" people.
So she got caught while showing her boobs to her fan and apparently the producer moved her to another idol group?? WTF am i missing... lol it's japan. any fuckery can happen and concealed
its NOT her for God's sake. the photos were of a porn star who looks like her geez. one can easily 'faked' the boobs photos 'cos we dont even know where they came from.
No it was a guy she was dating/or at least interested in, who just happened to be an AKB fan. Since Sashi herself was originally a wota, idol fan, when she joined, chances are she probably have a few friend who are fans as well.
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It's kinda sad that they had to resort to this...
lol just lol
LOL~ why not? it's interesting to know the secrets of the stars XD
Secrets and Lies are two different things. People are free to trust in whoever want. But let's trust on the right people.
"Shukan Bunshun" sucks.......I don't get why ppl will read it
lewd act with an underage boy.......................
She was raped and later threatened into it by a leader of a middle-school gang who was bullying her son. Then she was charged with "corrupting a minor" when this came out.
maybe you should read into the situation before passing judgment.
It's not clear what happened but the boy is actually a criminal who has been arrested before. And the mother said he "persuaded" her into the relationship so it's possible she was either....
1. resisting it, but actually want to do it.
2. was threatened into the relationship, since the boy is a friend with her son and can hurt him, as well as have an arrest record that can hurt the family since there's no one to protect their family, the father left.
3. raped, and then coerced into a long term relationship because the boy said he will spread the rumor. Rape is a serious in Asia and most of the time the law don't do anything, and people actually look down on you if it come out. That's why most victims don't say anything and just go along with it because they don't want to be called "broken products" or something similar.
good plan..
if you can't contain them, join them and keep them under your fingers