It is the story of a fire brigade leader of a small island who, together with his members and the islanders, systematically kills a yakuza and tries to make it look like an “involuntary manslaughter”.

Unwillingness” is a legal term that refers to “acting with awareness of the possibility of a particular result, but knowing that the result may occur.”

For example, suppose a person takes the action of throwing a large rock off the roof of a tall building. Although that person does not clearly intend to hurt anyone, he/she understands that someone may be hurt by his/her action.

This concept is important in legal decision-making and reflects the philosophy that people should be held responsible for the possible consequences of their actions.

The islanders living on this “certain small island” may be us Japanese. A society that has known about Janie Kitagawa’s sexual crimes against minors for more than half a century, but has been unable to do anything about it. This is the “community illusion” that Kimiho Abe depicted.

The malicious crimes committed by Mr. Janie Kitagawa were not criminalized by recent compliance. According to the article below, it was a historical fact that he had already been tried by law since the 1960s. The case has been prosecuted and convicted on several occasions since then. The current president and 100 million Japanese have been complicit in this crime for more than half a century.

The media is particularly responsible. Television is especially responsible. In most TV stations, the news department and the programming department are so different that they seem to be separate companies. That is why, although the BBC’s report has been widely covered in the news, no matter how much the news department makes a fuss, the programming department is probably trying its best to protect its sanctuary. No matter how much the public clamors, they continue to insist that the hard-working talent has nothing to do with it. They are victims, not to be blamed. That is a matter of course. Even if a company is a social evil, its employees are not to blame. But that logic does not apply here. The reason is that the company that knew that Mr. Janney Kitagawa was a sex offender of the highest degree and continued to do business with him was a publicly traded TV station that made a profit by using the public’s spectrum for free (as well as NHK). (NHK, too.)

Behind the fervor of the fans, there was this terrible crime. The TV stations turned a blind eye because the talent discovered by Mr. Kitagawa Janney was a money-making venture for the stations. In other words, this case is consistently structured as a “profit-making story for adults using children as a pretext. Therefore, sophistry such as “the talent is blameless” is not valid. The TV stations should respond to the victims, who have suffered great trauma in their subsequent lives, by immediately ceasing business with the companies created by the criminals.

The same is true for major clients who use their talents. If you recognize that the company you are doing business with is a company created by a vicious criminal, I think that a suspension of business is an appropriate social response. It is only natural, since your fees allowed the crimes to continue and the number of victims to continue to increase.

Again, “the agency is bad, but the talent is blameless” does not hold true in any industry other than the mass media. No matter how wonderful the products produced by the ill-gotten gains are, clients will stop doing business with them. How much longer are TV stations going to be able to rest on their laurels of privilege?

Mr. Janney Kitagawa’s criminal activities over the past half-century are expected to be punishable by hundreds of years in prison and more than 100 billion yen in compensation in the United States. The fact that he even set up a “training camp” for his crimes to satisfy his own greed is systematic and truly horrifying.

The excuses that “the talent is doing their best” and “we want to take care of our fans” no longer apply. To condone a crime of this magnitude and to have known about it but not to have been aware of it constitutes “willful negligence. I believe that all of us Japanese were complicit in this crime.

◆ Notes

(1) [Allegations of sexual assault by Mr. Janie Kitagawa] Reported since the 1960s, when the Johnny’s Office was born. What has been the background of this overlooked story?

(2) What would happen to Janie and Janie Kitagawa if the issue of Janie’s sexual assault were in the U.S.? Sandusky case carries minimum 30 years in prison, costing Penn State $200 million

(3) Are you satisfied with Julie’s explanation?　We asked 110 sponsors