Karata Erika's Agency Releases Statement, Higashide's Drama to Air as Planned

Karata Erika's agency releases statement

Source: Sports Hochi, Yahoo! News Japan

Karata Erika's agency released a statement via fax late at night on the 22nd.

"She is deeply reflecting on her careless actions. She wants to face her weakness, foolishness, and naivety head on."

"Our agency will give her strict guidance so that this will never happen again and to regain your trust. Thank you very much for your continued guidance and encouragement. We are truly sorry."

han*****
It's been 3 years right? She knew about Anne-chan, she knew about the twins and the baby. Unbelievable.

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Pineapple Soy Milk Man
This wasn't just a one or two time mistake.
Don't make me laugh. Their "mistake" has been going on for three years.
To begin with, the act of starting a relationship with someone you know is married deserves contempt.
Becky and the rest. Leave.
Back Number's already crying.

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sho*****
It's incredible that they had an affair for three years, from when she was 19 to now, without anyone finding out
The first thing you should be doing is apologising to Anne-san

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ech*****
When Anne was young, her mother got into a religion and turned strange, her parents divorced. After that, her dad who was the person she relied on, had affair after affair after affair. Cheating even though he knew that makes Higashide pure scum. I completely misjudged his character.

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mzk*****
Where's the apology to Anne-chan? She knew that he had a wife, yet she dared to continue the affair for three years!
Where is the "pure" actress?
Just disappear together with Higashide.

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yougive_love_badname
I, frankly, don't feel any reflection in this half-baked excuse.
It's not, I was weak, foolish, naive – this was adultery! She doesn't even apologise to the wife or kids of her affair partner, instead she's like, "My weakness, foolishness, and naivety", it's like she's trying to get sympathy. That really pisses me off.

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asa*****
This is by far the most unpleasant news in recent years... in my opinion.

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yos*****
Nope, you can't bring age into this.
She was flaunting it on Instagram.
It completely looked like she was saying, "I'm dating Higashide~~". She only deleted the photos when their affair was exposed.
Higashide is bad enough but Karata is just as bad.
I'm worried about Anne-chan and her children's mental well-being.

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sui*****
Very different from the pure image she had in that damage insurance CM. She's horrible. Her image is bad now. I hate Higashide. Anne-san, I'm rooting for you.

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Taiyō to Ciscomoon
Just looking at the details and sequence of events, I haven't seen such scum in a long time, it will be hard to recover their reputation.

She looked so pure too...

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Higashide Masahiro's drama to air as planned

Source: Nikkan Sports, Yahoo! News Japan

TV Asahi stated that the television drama 'Keiji to Kenji' which stars Higashide Masahiro would air as planned. The first episode had an average viewership rating of 12.0%. (Video Research Ltd.)

naha
I don't think anyone wants to watch it anymore. A public prosecutor having an affair is unthinkable. Higashide's already over. Anne-san, I hope you can overcome this.

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pi*****
He's playing a prosecutor. No matter how good his arguments in the drama are, I'm always going to think, "This is Higashide-kun, the guy who lured a minor into having a 3-year affair with him."

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 gnuman@cars
This separation will be a big blow to Higashide's career.
The sponsors are probably against using him
They probably don't want the name of a man who had an affair and hurt his wife attached to a TV program that they're sponsoring

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exm*****
If it just happened once I'd understand that he's "repenting", but it was going on for a long time, so saying he's "repenting" now is just strange.
If he loses all of his jobs it'll be his own fault, but it will be unfortunate if Anne-san loses jobs too.

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idq*****
Just axe the whole show. No one wants to see an adulterer's wooden acting.
For 'Byoushitsu de Nenbutsu~', they should swap Karata out for another actress. Her acting sucks and she has no presence so you won't even be able to tell if they get rid of her. It's settled, let's change it!

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