Hamasaki Ayumi and Avex face investigation by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

[Lanz16]

This is bad...
Ayu was so innocent to this and she'll arrested for walking around the Shibuya tower?
That's really sucks.


We all know that she was not just a star but an Icon of Japan's music.
In other words, she was a very high profiled artist.
Like Michael Jackson, there will be a mob of fans, media's, passerby and such even when he walked on public (which it didn't happened, im not sure).



I do hope AVEX will do something to save her for being sentenced into jail as much as possible...

[waterballoon]

I just think it's quite infuriating now that Maxker has specified the reason... sure it's spontaneous, but it's like... she's human too... heck even I have my weird desire sometimes to visit some place...

She wants to promote the event as a surprise, because she wanted to surprise her fans... I mean how can she be accused or get arrested for THAT?!

The most ridiculous thing is that a 30-year-old woman needs to get PERMISSION just to walk around her country... gosh.

I feel like going up to her PR manager and give him/her a good tight slap man.

And, I have a feeling the media is really blowing up things as well. Unnecessary uproar.

[k21sh3n]

despite of all of the negative fuss this news might cause, there's no such thing as bad publicity rite? this news at least once again shows the public that Hamasaki Ayumi still has her touch.. I mean.. "wow~~ the number of crowd, 8000 !!" "wow the book sell well" etc etc..

[elvesword]

It was really unbeliveable, those fans chose to follow as their will, and now the police is going to investigate that thing??Are they being too boring or what?!

[Fairily_Spark]

So this is it. I saw something written in Japanese yesterday about police investigations on Ayu and Avex but couldn't understand it

[Suteisi]

Honestly, they make it sound like it's HER fault, when really, it's the staff of Avex that was in charge of putting all of this together.

I'm sure the media is making it sound worse than it really is. They always do.

[alternarist]

this is so lame. the japanese jolly well knows that ayu is so damn famous!!

does she need permission wherever she goes? So they are trying to imply a famous person has to cover his/her face wherever he/she goes because he/she will cause a commotion that can cause harm to public.

WHAT THE?

[truehappiness]

Honestly, it's not worth discussing. I don't get why the police are jumping on this now. Maybe there's no news in Japan at the moment? "A cat has fallen from a tree in Shibuya. We are currently reporting breaking news. Stay tuned."

IMO, the whole thing kind of unraveled like that party that Cady had in Mean Girls when she only invited a few people and like, everyone from school showed up. Who would've expected almost 8,000 people to appear?

I understand that they had problems with the amount of people and the commotion they caused, but to place that blame on Ayu? No. That's just a little.. much.

I hope nothing happens to Ayu and this thing blows over.

[ayumisrael]

The whole event was planned in advance, we in AHS knew about it and knew there are going to be loads of people, why the police woke up a month afterwars?
It still doesn't make sense to me at all.

I hope that the investigation will end soon since if the whole issue is wrong they are just giving her a bad name.

[freedreamer]

Ok weird...I mean its just a fan event?
and shouldnt Avex have dealed with this...if it was necessary to begin with?

[noidea]

No she needs permission just to walk around? Its not ayus fault, the blocked streets are her fans fault and the no-permission-for-the-event thing is her managers fault!

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by Maxker

Singer Hiromi Go, attending his own event in Tokyo on Thursday, offered a sympathetic comment about the case. Ten years ago, he was similarly prosecuted for holding an unannounced performance in Shibuya.

I'm glad that Hiromi Go is being sympathetic since he had the same issue, though ayu's event was announeced.
I hope they will clear it up like with his case.

[SolarAngel]

Since it was a bona fide public event, her manager should have been responsible enough to obtain a permit. But at least it doesn't look like anyone was frightened, trampled or anything like that...

[Bad Wolf]

Originally Posted by panda♥

Just shows people will do what they can to get money, whether it be the police or not.

. Sad, isn't it? This whole situation is so damn stupid, too.

[panda87]

man...

"We're free to go anywhere we want. We're free to do anything we want." - Heartplace

gawsh, this is ridiculous. to have a permit just to go from store to store. but the thing about holding the event to promote her book and album does need a [permit] to reserve the area and have safety guards for a safe promotion... so in away, i think she shouldn't be such a diva. she's so powerful, she can't just go where and when she wants anymore... she makes the world go crazy, it's like she's a queen who needs all the extra preparation for her arrival or else.

[Bad Wolf]

^ getting a permit isn't Ayu's responsibility. It's her staff's. Going to music stores in the area is hardly "diva."

[maikaru]

I didn't know it's illegal to walk into a store, and see people you know, and greet with them.
I also didn't know it's illegal to attend your own book opening.
I also didn't know it's illegal to walk the streets on your free well, and go buying somethings once in a while.

I am really tired of Japanese media and news, they are making things up or making a big deal out of things one or two months after it happened.
Look at the SMAP guy, Kusanagi!!! He goes back to work 4 weeks after like nothing has happened, and the police decide not to prosecute him, or ANYTHING!!!
But for Ayumi, it goes on forever and ever, one thing after another,
And she is just walking on her own time, and through the streets of Tokyo, and she will get investigated by the police?
I am tired of this!!!!

[Bad Wolf]

Yeah, I agree maikaru. It's like what gossip mags and the media do over here about big name celebs: they just put them on the highest pedestal and rip 'em down any way they can, for any stupid little thing. .. Only of course sometimes those celebs really do things worthy of a lot of attention and confusion (Hostage Brituation '08, Never Forget), but that's the exception to the rule.

It's retarded, plain and simple. Pls to be holdin on to yr integrity, journalists.

[ayumisrael]

Originally Posted by panda87

man...

"We're free to go anywhere we want. We're free to do anything we want." - Heartplace

gawsh, this is ridiculous. to have a permit just to go from store to store. but the thing about holding the event to promote her book and album does need a [permit] to reserve the area and have safety guards for a safe promotion... so in away, i think she shouldn't be such a diva. she's so powerful, she can't just go where and when she wants anymore... she makes the world go crazy, it's like she's a queen who needs all the extra preparation for her arrival or else.

The opposite, she is just a human being and she wants to be normal like everyone else, she doesn't want all that divaish protection and special things and treatments like "look I'm coming everyone get far away from me I want to walk here I want to walk there so no one will be here go away, spread shooo oh and if anyone will do anything stupid the guards will punish you!" full of guards and stuff when she goes out. But still it wasn't her job to ask for a permission and it's wierd she is being blamed for that.

[waterballoon]

Omg maikaru, do you think that it MIGHT because Ayu's a woman that the police are hard on her neck? From what I know, the sexual inequality in Japan is still quite prevalent...