Yahoo: Tokyo police raid Avex over Ayu's traffic violation
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090610...cjapanhamasaki

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/natio...na007000c.html
omg ayu what have you done!! Why do they always use the worst photos of Ayu too?

wow. and, ayu really looks old in that pic. @_@ without tons of make-up...

The only crime here is using that ugly photo.

A RAID? Sounds way more important than it actually is. :P

thanks for the article.

"omg ayu what have you done!! Why do they always use the worst photos of Ayu too?"

I think we all knew what happened already, and yes they always pick weird pictures lol


EDIT: that picture is old anyways lol i dont think she looks old xD

they could have chose another pic (-_-||)

hopefully people will forget about that scandal quickly

Oh dear... what's happening??? :(
I hope she's fine... despite of this horrible scandal.


And WHAT THE HECK! on the pic.
Its 3 or 4 years ago!


Thanks for the flash news.

:roflmao

Hmm... this scandal just never ends...

And a raid? Lmao, yeah okay, avex is hiding drugs and Ayu just raped a woman. :innocent

I thought they had stopped this? >.<

Guys, the picture could be hella' worse.

A raid?
:S
A raid for what? :S

honestly this doesn't really affect ayu, they just use her name to get the notice. i mean it affects her staff, but not her. she doesn't organize those events :P

but i literally just saw this on the news hahaha

ahhh that photo looks bad!

Aahh... still with this? -__-
And that pic? OMG They could have used another one!

This is old news. Why posting this again every few weeks?

lol yeah absolutely..they should have used a better pic!

and Avex should actually have went and got a license, but now they're stuck in this mess :D

lol, I love how they throw in Ayu's name as much as they could to get the publicity for this article that they need. :P Geez, the media can't get more obvious.

And honestly, using the word "raid" is such a word choice... it misleads the reader so bad. Haha...

Wow it's on the US Yahoo News o______o

Well they can't prosecute Ayu - she didn't know they didn't have a permit, and honestly, the police SHOULDN'T be surprised so many people showed up. If they can't find a permit, some bad things could happen to Max and some other people DX

Why do they use such an old picture from a Panasonic promotion? It's completely unrelated..

^ They always use old pictures. I remember with the announcement of her being deaf in her left ear, they would use pictures from the Panasonic press conference in 2006.

another news about that?! looks like its not ended yet

ew this is still going on?
the police needs to get over themselves omg!

Sounds like someone was late to the party.. haha.

They just like one of the newspaper in Taiwan, always chose the worst pics of AYU to make fun of her>"<
Thanks for the news anyway, though I think the Tokyo police had done too far, they can't just investigate other serious cases?!

Haha... Oh Ayu, what a criminal you are. :roflmao

that pic was like so many many years ago...
OMG!!!
can't they just use the recent ones...

Hahaha.

And am I like the only one that think that she is pretty cute on that pic? ^^

this.

BTW lol at the old pics that they used always :D but well is better than the one they used for the deafness news

Agreed! :yes

LOL instead of talking about the issue, we are commenting on the photo. Well. i wonder why they have to use photos from 2004 era? i dont get it.

anyway, whats the point of raiding Avex's office? the event is over. everyone has moved on lol

LOL @ Everyone finding the photo more disturbing than the news :laugh

That woman was me (-_-)/

And I enjoyed every minute :innocent

The pic looks like her wax figure

Now we know why the police had do a "RAID" at avex office, lmao!

And discussing the gross factor of the photo is more constructive than this old and misinformed news~

I love how people are focusing more on the so called "ugly" picture of Ayu and not the insane police.

Dear Tokyo police,

GET THE **** OVER IT <3


Love,
Me.

Oh please. This is so melodramatic and sounds like a huge waste of time and resources that should be spent on more serious crimes. Just give her manager a fine and get on with it.

ia.
people are like "SHE'S TOO PHOTOSHOPPED" then they see a non photoshopped pic and are like "EW OMG OPEN PHOTOSHOP NOW GET RID OF THOSE EYEBAGS *PUKE*"

i don't really understand the point of a raid..

the photo was horrible@@

Double this. .___. Sometimes the fans make me sad.

LOL She looks like a normal person in the picture, that occasionally happens you know xD; Nothing will beat that one candid shot of her overseas! She was unrecognizable...

Isn't this a little... arbitrary to be receiving such scrutiny...? There have to be better things the Japanese police could be doing then trying to charge a pop star with a traffic violation...

i love how the police are "raiding" Ayu's avex office and people are mostly concerned with the fact that Yahoo used a comparatively unattractive picture of her.

umm.. why don't they use recent pic or something xD

LOL so true

Here in California, the police have been really alert, springing tickets on the littlest traffic violations in order to bring in revenue for the state since voters approved a budget reform/cut/whatever (not sure of the term, don't like politics :P) a while ago. Maybe the Tokyo police are in the same situation or something?

I really hope this doesn't create negative publicity for Ayu, though.

^probably.. the government needs money!

Whatever, it's not like she was wandering the streets of Tokyo drunk and nude. ;)

a raid...? wtf!

Why do they have to "raid" the office like they're trafficking drugs or something, geez.

I think we should all calm down and look it at logically. By raid I'm pretty sure they don't mean the special police forces came with guns blazing, door rams, shields, and w/e else they might use to raid the place of a criminal (flashbangs and tear gas perhaps?).

The way this article is "sensationally written" is the problem. I'm sure the police arrived at the agency and requested a search for material or documents (or lack thereof) that would incriminate her violation of the law that day. It makes perfect sense why'd they take this route in their investigation but I still think they are over reacting "just a little" over a traffic violation. Somewhere deep inside I feel that if this person who violated the law didn't go by the name of "Ayumi Hamasaki", they wouldn't be this darn serious about going after that person. Perhaps the legal system sees this as a good opportunity to "set an example" and show how "diligent" it is in bringing wrongdoers to "justice".

One last thing: I think that picture looks very sexy. I can't look at it for more than 5 seconds without having my hormones act up.

LOL people...don't be too naive :laugh There's a reason why they chose a bad picture, and there's really not much to wonder "why". That's a tricky resource in journalism. When you want to bring some news into a negative light, specially to those involved in the bad news, they try to put pictures as raw and unproduced as possible, so that it might cause some "anger" towards the "criminals" for those reading the news. When a politician is involved in huge scandals here in Brazil, they put his picture in the main page of the most famous news magazines, with his face asll sweaty and all pores visible so that it will cause a disgusting feeling for those reading. When they want to bring a news that a woman is incredible beautiful, they photoshop her to have crystal clear skin and amke an excellent job on the make up so that they can really sell what they're implying.

Seems like 'raid' was supposed to be like 'gang up on' instead.. haha.

Hmm...raid sounds strange. Maybe it was a translation error or something? Unlikely, but maybe. And I think that's a cute picture of Ayu.

This might be a scandal, but at least it isn't about women's amniotic fluid rotting at 35!

Hahahaha do I have bad tastes? Based on what you just wrote about putting a person into the most negative light possible, you'd think they choose a more grotesque picture of her lolol. I mean she could definitely look better but it's not the absolute worse I've seen of her heh.

Also, not only that but the way they write the article to make it seem worse than it really is with the clear intent of moving copies. If I'm not mistaken that's one of the main characteristics defining a tabloid. Quite unfortunate, really. I'm going to wait for some more articles to pop up and see what they have to say. Hopefully they give me pure untainted journalism.

i dont like that picture. XD but hope all this gets resolved ..

I'm hating the media at the moment -__-;

I know, the picture might not be great, but I agree with you - it's not the worst. I'd say they don't really want to make ayu the ugliest villain with such news, though they also don't want to put her into a good light either. That picture seems to bring mixed feelings among ayu fans, what to say the casual reader who isn't that much into ayu. :laugh My example was that of an extreme case though so that people could get the picture. It's just like when you advertise a product there's a whole "science" behind the advertisement so that people will feel attracted to the product and favor it over adversary companies products LOL

:roflmao

I completely agree.

I thought this whole issue was over with!

Who's to say they aren't already doing the better things out there? Just because ayu is a celebrity and avex is a rich record comapny doesn't mean the law shouldn't be enforced towards them. It actually makes me glad to see that in Japan they aren't all sweety when it comes to celebrities. If anyone's to blame, maybe it's the media that is blowing this out of proportion. You can't blame the police for doing their jobs. In my country it gets to the point that media lick celbrities so much that they give special time in TV shows so that the celbrities can defend themselves and they even try to clean their images, and osmetimes they've made some pretty foul crimes like driving drunk and hitiing and killing people while driving. And then people go: [ "aww" poor him is suffering because of the law, now his image is tarnished]. To the hell with hypocrisy! ayu is not to blame for this incident but saying this should just be overlooked is a little too much. They have already decided that something illegal happened in that event, so nothing fairer than doing a close investigation on the matter. Putting this to rest would be an offense to japan's citizen's who pays taxes to have their rights assured. it's pretty annoying that media puts a lot od sensasionalism over this, but then, that's not the police fault.

I think the reason people, myself included, are saying this is a waste of time or this is getting out of hand is because it's already been established that they didn't have a permit. Doing a raid proves nothing but dragging Avex, Ayu's staff and Ayu herself through the mud. It seems like the police or treating them as nothing more than scapegoats just to "make an example" of them, which I think is a bit ridiculous... Of course they have to do their job, so I guess a lot of the blame for this blow up is the media. Nothing new there.

I don't like celebrity preferential treatment any more than the next (sensible) person, but I don't think that applies here. Ayu didn't do something illegal herself--she just showed up. It was up to the staff or the management to get the proper papers in order, and they didn't. So it's not like she got away with something like, say, public drunkenness or running around without clothes, if you catch my drift *coughSMAPguycough*.

Of course, anything for the ratings~

A raid....they make it sound like Ayu is smuggling Cocaine into Shibuya.

The police is not going to avex building to "prove" that what they did is illegal. They are going there to investigate. They have to. They have to know what went wrong. That's an important step that can't be jumped. People assume it's a waste of time because they don't really take the time to think why the police did this. It was not "to prove further that avex is at wrong", it is to reach a conclusion in what, where and why did it went wrong, which is a completely different thing. The media is the one making this a huge deal, and then people assume it's the police that is making mud out of this. Again, they are doing their job, and they should never be negligent of it just because it is causing the media to tarnish ayu's beauty. They shouldn't neglect something of public interest in favor of a celebrity. If you guys are to whine about something, it should be about ayu's PR team incompetence. If they had been careful and followed the rules, ayu wouldn't have been in this situation. Compalining that the police shopuldn't be doing their jobs is a little ridiculous. It's like saying physicians should neglect assistance to someone dying in an ER. Someone broke the laws and the issue has to investigated, and this is what they are doing, and it doesn't matter if there are other major laws that have been broken, if they have been assigned to investigate this specifically, they have to folllow their duties, otherwise such laws shouldn't even exist, if they can't be enforced.

The police didn't go to avex building to bust ayu. They went there to investigate avex. Even you are assuming that ayu's amnagement did something wrong, so why are you also defending that the police is doing too much in investigating? They've done something wrong, and the police went there to take clues. Fair enough. The media takes this and portrays it into a negative light over ayu - That's not the police fault. They are doing their jobs investigating an irregularity at avex. If there's anyone to blame here is ayu's team responsible for getting these permissions, because they were incompetent and are now causing this to happen and the emdia for making such a big thing out of nothing. Thep olice should go on and do their jobs, people like it or not :yes

You guys have to be careful with things you read. This article makes things look worse than they seem and they use terms that cause a little shock, making people to go too dramatic over this matter.

Because I think it sounds stupid to say omg it's a raid~ two months after the damn fact that the crime happened (though obviously these things take time). I already said that I know they have to do their jobs, AND that the blame lies on how the media is blowing it out of proportion, but I also wonder if the cops are being as thorough in their investigation of other crimes that surround celebrities--especially if they're actually done by the celebrity his/herself. I wouldn't have a problem with their thoroughness on this matter if I knew they were doing the same thing to other artists who mess up (or whose people mess up).

I also just don't like cops in general lol. I have a bias showing.

Ayu is innocent for this. I love that photo although looks old. It's her natural expressions!

I have a feeling the police are putting so much effort into this just because of Ayu's status. Come on, raiding an office over a road traffic violation? Give her a fine, drag her to court, whatever, just be done with it. Looks like they're looking for evidence to charge Avex with something criminal. Even if it's clear they didn't have a permit, the more evidence the better.

jeez are they still up in arms over this traffic violation ; ; poor ayu she doesn't need this type of stress. lol can you imagine? You can't travel anywhere without setting it up first with the police and getting proper permit. So that means she can't just wake up and decide to shop for shoes one day without alerting police and getting a permit because Ayu will draw crowds if she decides to just go out

I saw this on NHK news last night and had no idea what was going on (just that I wishing I was in Shibuya that day lol) so I came here to read about it. A raid seems unnecessary, but I doubt it was as harsh as the papers are making it sound.

Why did they need to RAID avex? LOLLL It's not like they were hidng bombs. XD

they are not done with this arent they?

I leave for a few days and then there is finally some news? It seems to me that the police wanted an excuse to raid (maybe some other thing they were after and used this as a way in.) Doesn't make sense that they would do this so much after the event otherwise. As for this being a "surprise" event - seemed like a totally planned PR event to me, including Ayu "accidently" leaking the news the night before.

tnx for posting

^ Thanks for the news. I'm really glad Ayu didn't have to deal with them.

So likee what's the punishment? XD...

Maybe the other companies they talk about are ViVi magazine... and another one... ViVi sure was interested in make the event no matter what...

well, I'm happy they left Ayu alone XDDD

^

well it wasn't her fault, as I thought since begin, these events aren't always planned by singers themselves.

Glad Ayu didn't have to be questioned or anything, because indeed it is not her fault. Thanks for sharing~

Well it's not ayu's fault anyway, thanks for sharing!

This whole incident just made me laugh, hah! People can be so crazy sometimes...