On October 4, Richard Keita Kusama, 29, of the A!group, was arrested on suspicion of public indecency. Following Kusama’s arrest, “The! DASH! (NTV), in which Kusama makes a semi-regular appearance, was aired with a different content on October 5. Kusama was arrested at around 5:30 a.m. on October 4 at the Yotsuya Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for exposing his lower body in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo. Kusama was arrested by the Yotsuya Police Station of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department at around 5:30 a.m. on April 4 for exposing his lower body. He was reportedly intoxicated. The sports newspaper reporter said, “There may be room for extenuating circumstances, including the fact that there is no direct victim.” However, Kusama’s office announced, “We take the social impact of this incident very seriously, and we will be suspending her activities. Kusama was referred to the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office on the morning of January 6. Kusama is a semi-regular participant in “Tetsuwan DASH” and was scheduled to appear in the “Giant Diner” corner on the October 5 broadcast, but a message was displayed saying that the content would be changed and the corner would not be aired. It was announced that in addition to Shintaro Morimoto (28) of SixTONES, another semi-regular guest, popular actor Koshi Yamamoto (48), who is close to Morimoto, would also make a guest appearance in the “Giant Diner” segment, which was suspended. It is very rare for an actor to guest on “Tetsuwan DASH,” but Mr. Morimoto, who co-starred in the drama, made an enthusiastic offer to appear on the show. Many viewers were looking forward to seeing Yamamoto show off his cooking skills and talk about his private life with Morimoto, but …… was cancelled due to Kusama’s arrest. As for the cast of “DASH,” on June 20, Taichi Kokubun (51) was dropped from the program after NTV announced that they had “confirmed that there had been multiple compliance issues in the past. He was suspended indefinitely from performing arts activities, and on the 25th of the same month, the dissolution of TOKIO and the closure of TOKIO Inc. were also decided. The week before Kusama was arrested, Masahiro Matsuoka (48) appeared on the September 28 episode of “Tetsuwan DASH” and made a “wish” for the suspect. When the episode aired, the content of the wish was talked about as being reminiscent of Kokubun’s case, but now that Kusama has been arrested, this has come back into the spotlight. In order to prevent wild boars, he participated in the work of cutting thin strips of blue vinyl tape to make it look like a curtain and stretching it over the entire rice field. There, he used the blue tape as a paper strip for the Tanabata Festival, and wrote, “I hope nothing too bad happens to you. At the time of the broadcast, many viewers reminded Kunibun of the case, saying, “It’s not funny,” “It’s too earnest,” and so on.
