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Former Fuji TV announcer Nagisa Watanabe sparked debate on 5ch’s Geinou/Sports Breaking News+ board after saying, in a YouTube video offering job-hunting advice, that “people with a strong sense of justice aren’t suited to TV stations” and “there’s all kinds of power harassment and sexual harassment.” Commenters also pointed out her past admission of “20-hour workdays,” and the sense of unease around her now speaking as a kind of job-hunting advisor after leaving the company.
While some in the thread sympathized with the working conditions she described, others questioned her stance, with comments like “she’s talking with criticism as the whole premise” and “she’s going to stop getting booked.”
“People with a strong sense of justice aren’t suited to TV stations” — Ex-Fuji announcer Nagisa Watanabe’s “industry criticism” in job-hunting video sparks controversy… Previously admitted to “20-hour workdays,” now unease over her turning into a “job-hunting advisor”
2026.08.27 20:30
Nagisa Watanabe, a former announcer who left Fuji TV in August 2024 and now works as a freelancer, has never been short of buzz since her departure — and now comments from her YouTube channel about job hunting are stirring up social media.
Source: smart-flash.jp / Original article here
What people said
One fake report and they should lose their broadcast license, no questions asked.
Super black company, lol ("black company" = Japanese slang for an exploitative employer).
Yasuzumi: "What kind of soft talk is that — you shouldn't have become an announcer in the first place."
There's probably a break somewhere in there.
Also, if it's 2am-10pm then back on shift late the next night, that's basically a 20-hour shift followed by 26 hours off — a one-day-on-one-day-off pattern.
The popular ones are probably busy, but isn't losing work the scarier option?
Plenty of jobs have long hours too, like medical workers.
it feels like she's talking with criticism as the starting point.
It's the ones who want to be famous and rake in money who join the TV crowd.
"Strongly principled types aren't suited to organized crime."
"Strongly principled types aren't suited to showbiz."
Applies to literally everything.
Any job, you end up quitting partway through, huh.
What happened with her being listed in the track record of two announcer schools while saying she never attended one?
Her job hunt for Fuji TV started in the summer of her third year of university, so "at that point" she probably hadn't attended one yet.
In the follow-up part of the video, it sounds like she was told "you should do this" and ended up joining some "something" aimed at aspiring announcers partway through.
Not sure about an informal offer, but the official offer came in her fourth year, so I guess the announcer exam process itself just runs long.
Isn't that true even in the religious world?
Even in Christianity, saints are rare characters.
Most people give in to the devil's temptations, drown in pleasure, and end up on the side wiped out by the flood, right?
Then she should just explain that, you'd think.
Letting people believe she was still hospitalized when she'd already been discharged, without clarifying — that kind of thing is where I don't feel any sincerity.
You'd get the nuance better by actually watching the video — not pushing you to, though.
What gets you with "this is exactly her problem" is that, to begin with, it slowly sinks in from the latter half of part two that Fuji TV itself is "that kind of company."
As for the third-party committee's report, the premise is that you shouldn't swallow any of it whole —
but the more you listen to her rattle on, the more you think "she cozied up and pandered to a bunch of unhinged people, and it just made her more unhinged in the process."
That's where I landed, lol.
And with the police too, strongly principled types
just end up feeling suppressed, so it's better not to join
the police — it's an organization that's a parade
of unreasonableness.
Since there's so much sexual and power harassment, if you're not strongly principled, the police and Self-Defense Force become a total free-for-all.
There's data showing that the more of a jock/meathead type someone is, the more they tend to love bullying.
"You can't take a joke."
"You're so serious."
"You can't improvise."
That's what people say.
Well, I'm talking about myself, but.
In two kanji, that's just called "incompetent" (無能, munou).
"Real Value," "On Mute," "News Post Seven," "Yoga Journal"
Don't people like that usually turn pessimistic about the world and leave secular life behind? Like a sadhu in India. Though you can't survive without giving up vanity and desire. It's tough.
People who go around calling others small-minded are basically the bully type, I think.
On Nep League, she'd call out to the senior announcer doing the voice-over in a cutesy voice, like "○○-san~"
She was Fuji TV's top pick as a variety-ready rookie female announcer —
the type with a cute face who's also pretty blunt and says what she thinks.
If they don't properly keep them separate from entertainers who've clawed their way up on talent and connections and have seen it all, the same kind of incident is just going to happen again.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread ““People with a strong sense of justice aren’t suited to TV stations” “There’s all kinds of power harassment and sexual harassment” — Nagisa Watanabe’s job-hunting video “TV industry criticism” sparks controversy… [Ailuropoda melanoleuca★].”
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