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Talent Miki Fujimoto revealed on “Otto ga Neta Ato ni” (After My Husband Falls Asleep) that her eldest son’s rebellious phase is “already in its 5th year,” lamenting, “I do everything for him, and yet…”
On 5ch, reactions were split: some questioned the wisdom of airing family matters on TV at all, others argued that being overbearing is what invites rebellion in the first place, while still others defended the rebellious phase as a necessary step toward independence.
Miki Fujimoto on her eldest son’s rebellious phase, “already year 5”: lets slip her true feelings — “I do everything for him, and yet…”
Talent Miki Fujimoto (41) appeared on TV Asahi’s late-night show “Otto ga Neta Ato ni” (airing Tuesdays at 0:15 a.m.), broadcast on the 25th, where she talked about her eldest son’s rebellious phase.
That day’s episode featured Taichi Shiozaki (25) of the group “M!LK” as a guest, and the two discussed rebellious phases.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Sounds overbearing. He's probably thinking 'just leave me alone already.'
Only step in when he actually asks for something.
Even when he does ask, unless it's something serious, it should be the dad telling him to try it himself.
Moms, left unchecked, want to do everything for their kids.
Apparently for some people the rebellious phase lasts clear until they start working. This one really comes down to personality — or how someone's wired mentally.
He's probably getting teased at school with stuff like 'Hey, it's Mikitty's kid!' (Mikitty is Fujimoto's nickname)
Nah, that's just way too overprotective.
Once he lives on his own, he'll quickly realize how much his parents did for him.
Exactly, exactly. It's a sign of growing independence. Once he starts high school, just put him in a dorm.
Re: #58
A rebellious phase is a necessary process for becoming independent.
Exactly. From the kid's perspective, it must be unbearable.
Nah, that kind of thing just felt too embarrassing back then — anyone would've reacted the same way at that age.
Exactly, exactly. Way too inconsiderate. It'd only be fair if her son were also allowed to broadcast what his mom's really like at home to the whole world on social media.
Background and Key Points
Miki Fujimoto, known by her idol-era nickname “Mikitty,” rose to fame as one of the most popular members of Morning Musume, Japan’s flagship all-female idol group, in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She is married to Koji Yamamoto, a former professional baseball catcher, and the couple has three sons; the eldest, whose rebellious phase she describes, is reportedly in the ninth grade (chugaku 3-nensei), the final year of Japanese junior high school. In Japan, the “rebellious phase” (hankouki) isn’t just a colloquial complaint — it’s a recognized developmental stage, the “second rebellious phase” (dai-ni-ji hankouki), widely discussed in parenting media and typically expected to run through the junior-high years before tapering off by the start of high school or shortly after. That expected timeline is exactly why “already year 5” struck posters as unusually long.
The thread’s actual fault line wasn’t really about the son’s behavior — almost everyone treated some rebellious phase as normal or even necessary for independence. The split was over cause and blame: one camp read Fujimoto’s “I do everything for him” line as proof of overbearing, smothering parenting that provokes and prolongs teenage pushback; another camp, and arguably the more repeated point, blamed the disclosure itself — that discussing an identifiable teenage son’s private struggles on national television is what’s actually humiliating him and fueling resentment.
What outside readers may not register is a Japanese-specific sensitivity: many celebrities here keep children’s identities and school lives strictly out of media, so parading a real, current, named struggle on air reads as a more serious boundary violation in Japan than the equivalent might elsewhere.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread [Entertainment] Miki Fujimoto on her eldest son’s rebellious phase, “already year 5”: lets slip her true feelings — “I do everything for him, and yet…”.
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