{"id":3259,"date":"2009-04-24T21:06:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2009-04-24T21:06:45","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T12:06:45","slug":"amateur-paparazzis-livecast-a-pop-star-under-arrest-for-indecent-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/amateur-paparazzis-livecast-a-pop-star-under-arrest-for-indecent-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Paparazzis Livecast A Pop Star Under Arrest For Indecent Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might hear from the news, the Japanese pop star <em>Tsuyoshi Kusanagi<\/em>\uff08\u8349\u5f45\u525b, a.k.a. <span lang=\"ko\" xml:lang=\"ko\">\ucd08\ub09c \uac15 or <em>Chonan Gang<\/em> in South Korea<\/span>\uff09, a member of popular group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnys-net.jp\/j\/artists\/smap\/\">SMAP[J]<\/a>, was arrested Thursday for public indecency after being found drunk and naked at a park near <a href=\"http:\/\/wikitravel.org\/en\/Tokyo\/Roppongi\">Roppongi<\/a>, Tokyo.<br \/>\nOn the popular video sharing site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicovideo.jp\/\">Nico Nico Douga[J]<\/a>, some curious onlooking videocast enthusiasts brought live pictures shooting TV crews and showbiz reporters who were at the crime scene for covering the story, and the others showed live images of the police building where <em>Tsuyoshi<\/em> was detained inside for an investigator&#8217;s examination.<br \/>\nJapanese government has used him as a promoter for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpa.or.jp\/english\/\">digital terrestrial TV broadcasting<\/a> (a.k.a DTV in the U.S.) which replaces analog broadcasting in 2011.   They are afraid if his arrest may dampen the widespread use of digital TV sets in Japanese households, which may force them to postpone the transition deadline of Japanese TV industry&#8217;s road-map.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3262\" title=\"Nico Nico Live\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/niconicolive.jpg\" alt=\"NicoNico Live\" width=\"538\" height=\"292\" \/><br \/>\nA screen-shot above was quoted from <a href=\"http:\/\/live.nicovideo.jp\/\">Nico Nico Live[J]<\/a>, a livecast category on Nico Nico Douga.<br \/>\nThis livecast was performed by an onlooking guy in Thursday&#8217;s lunch break, he mimicked <em>Tsuyoshi<\/em>, took off his clothes and entered a pond in the park where the pop star had been found.   An audience watching it expressed pros and cons while they ate lunch at their offices.   The park is located next to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tokyo-midtown.com\/en\/\">Tokyo Midtown<\/a> shopping complex, which was built a few years ago at the ex-site of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.go.jp\/e\/\">Japanese Defence Ministry<\/a>&#8216;s Headquarters.<br \/>\n<strong>See Also:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tsuyoshi<\/em>&#8216;s fan and blogger traveling in Cambodia started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shomei.tv\/project-954.html\">a signature-obtaining campaign online[J]<\/a>: 10,000 signatures expected to be submitted to mass media and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soumu.go.jp\/english\/\">Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications<\/a> in the hope that they will show some leniency in his situation, by refraining from removing him from the leading roles.<\/li>\n<li>An another fan also started running <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shomei.tv\/project-960.html\">a campaign online[J]<\/a>: 100,000 signatures expected to be submitted to the prosecutor and <em>Tsuyoshi<\/em>&#8216;s management office, by asking them to dismiss the case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might hear from the news, the Japanese pop star Tsuyoshi Kusanagi\uff08\u8349\u5f45\u525b, a.k.a. \ucd08\ub09c \uac15 or Chonan Gang in South Korea\uff09, a member of popular group SMAP[J], was arrested Thursday for public indecency after being found drunk and naked at a park near Roppongi, Tokyo. On the popular video sharing site Nico Nico Douga[J],&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/amateur-paparazzis-livecast-a-pop-star-under-arrest-for-indecent-exposure\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amateur Paparazzis Livecast A Pop Star Under Arrest For Indecent Exposure<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8,11,17,20,24,27,38],"tags":[643,2588,2590,3378,3834],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-community","category-event-report","category-japan","category-korea","category-news","category-person","category-video","tag-chonan-gang","tag-nico-nico-douga","tag-nico-nico-live","tag-smap","tag-tsuyoshi-kusanagi","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}