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The story
On September 2, FRIDAY published an article — complete with on-scene photos — alleging that Hanshin Tigers ace left-hander Ryuto Ihara assaulted a woman in her 20s while she was drunk. Weekly Bunshun had reportedly been covering the same story, and the overlap between the two outlets’ reporting became a talking point in itself. Reactions on 5ch were split: some questioned the credibility of the report, others pointed to a recurring pattern of women-related trouble in pro baseball, and the view that “the woman may have been at fault too” drew strong pushback. Posts also frequently brought up past cases involving Shinnosuke Abe and Hotaka Yamakawa for comparison.
Published Wed, 9/2, 7:00 AM
FRIDAY
Angry shouts and screams ring out
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Oh, this thing lol
Guess they got scooped
There it is, there it is
Baseball fans always start blaming the woman the second a player screws up
Seriously gross
Baseball fans always want to defend the player with 'he's not at fault, the woman is'
Male chauvinism is probably just the norm across the whole sport
Oh really
That's awful
It's basically a profession full of guys racking up offenses like criminals-in-training
So he just happens to hit someone while being filmed? Probably because it's an everyday thing for him
Baseball guys really do love choking women
That's because they had it done to them by their senpai too
And on top of that, this guy has a judo background
A judo guy choking someone is just the worst
Baseball fans always want to make it the woman's fault whenever it involves a player and a woman
They were bashing the daughter hard during the Abe case too
There's the precedent of Hotaka Yamakawa's total victory, after all
So not being indicted counts as a win lol
Not guilty isn't the same as innocent, you know
He only got off because the woman hesitated — thinking 'I still have to work with him' — and it took too long for her to go to the police
It'd actually be strange if a sport with only male players *didn't* end up sexist
And Yamakawa was in it for the money anyway
Yamakawa was only not indicted due to insufficient evidence
It's just baseball fans bashing him over the delusion that it was 'about the money' — so gross
Just means they're that popular with women
Background and Points of Debate
This article is based on FRIDAY’s own reporting, and as of September 2 neither the team nor the player had issued an official comment. Even with photographic evidence, at the weekly-magazine stage no judicial determination has been made — it’s worth remembering this remains, for now, an “allegation.” Within the thread, opinion split between those questioning the credibility of the report itself and those criticizing the recurring pattern of women-related trouble surfacing in pro baseball, with the view that “the woman may have been at fault too” drawing strong pushback. The cases of Shinnosuke Abe (Yomiuri Giants) and Hotaka Yamakawa brought up for comparison are separate incidents with their own distinct circumstances and have no direct connection to this case. That Bunshun had been pursuing similar reporting also became a talking point, but this only shows overlapping coverage and doesn’t corroborate the underlying facts.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[Full Text] Grabbing Her by the Hair… Hanshin Ace Left-hander Ryuto Ihara’s Raw On-Scene Photos of a ‘Drunk Assault on a Woman in Her 20s’.”
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