Actor Shosuke Tanihara (53) appeared on Fuji Television’s information program “Sun! Shine” (Monday-Friday, 8:14 a.m.). He corrected his remarks in the program and apologized to Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito and others. The “ mysterious three shots “ of who shook hands with who…? At the beginning of the program, announcer Kyoko Sasaki (52) began by saying, “First of all, a correction,” and then added, “In the broadcast on the 10th of this month, when we dealt with the arrest of Takashi Tachibana, the Tanihara caster asked whether Mr. Takeuchi was the mastermind as Mr. Tachibana said, and whether the police would make a decision. Mr. Takeuchi was about to say that he thought it was up to the police to decide whether he was the mastermind as Mr. Tachibana said, when Mr. Saito mistakenly said that he thought it was up to the police to decide whether he was the mastermind as Mr. Tachibana said. Announcer Sasaki apologized to Governor Saito, the people involved, and everyone watching the program for the correction,” and Tanihara bowed his head and said, “I apologize. On September 9, the Hyogo Prefectural Police arrested Takashi Tachibana, 58, leader of the political group “Party to Protect Citizens from NHK,” on suspicion of defamation for defaming Hideaki Takeuchi, then 50, a former prefectural assemblyman who died in January after pursuing the issue of a document alleging allegations against Hyogo Governor Motohiko Saito. The suspect, Tachibana, had repeatedly sent out a message that Takeuchi was under suspicion of a crime, and Takeuchi’s wife had accused him of falsely accusing her of the crime.
