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Basketball player Okoe Momoka updated her X (Twitter) account on September 10, sharing her feelings as a family member about the media coverage of her brother, former Yomiuri Giants player Okoe Rui: “Please stop digging up the past over and over, writing speculative articles, and chasing him around.” Rui had been playing for a club in Mexico in recent years, but reports say he was released by that team around May of this year, and his current affiliation and whereabouts remain unclear. Reactions on 5ch were split, with some questioning the way he’s being covered and others saying that, given his past conduct, being reported on is unavoidable.
Thu, Sep 10, 2:26 PM
Basketball player Okoe Momoka (27) updated her X account on the 10th, sharing her thoughts on the coverage of her brother, former Giants player Okoe Rui (29).
Momoka opened with, “There’s one thing I’d like to say, just once, as a family member, about my brother,” noting that up to now, “truly so many articles have been written” about him.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
I think he was in Mexico, but did he just vanish somewhere?
Then he should've just gotten a normal job.
I still think of him as an active player…
If they explain that, won't everyone just drift away?
Don't worry about the trash media's (マスゴミ, a slur blending "mass media" and "garbage") reporting — if it gets too rough, just come home.
why are you throwing fuel on the fire?
I don't think Okoe Rui has the ability to make it as a baseball player anymore, but he's got a good body and some shady rumors going, so I want him on Breaking Down (a Japanese MMA/street-fight exhibition show).
He'd look seriously strong.
stop calling yourself "Leaky Rui" (wordplay — footballer Ruy Ramos shares the same 瑠偉/"Rui" kanji as Okoe Rui, and もらす means "to leak/wet oneself").
What did her brother do in the past?
And knowing the whole story and still choosing "I won't forgive him" is a perfectly normal option too.
Supreme Commander — Zion
Marshal — Hachimura
General — Sani Brown
Errand boy — Okoe
Let Kusama Richard Keita join the group too (another mixed-heritage Japanese TV personality).
Getting arrested is one worry, but I'm also scared he'll get mixed up in something weird and just disappear, so I think he should come home.
Showbiz, or dancing — showbiz probably would've suited him, he seems like the flashy type.
Apparently he moved to a different team in May and got fired there too.
Background and key points of this story
Okoe Rui joined the Yomiuri Giants in 2016, and in recent years had shifted his career to a club team in Mexico. As the 5ch reactions note, there are reports that he was released from his contract shortly after moving to a different team around May of this year, leaving his standing as a player unsettled. In the thread, a defense of the coverage (“digging up the past is normal for reporting”) and a sympathetic view (“the family is speaking out of worry — why pile on?”) are roughly evenly matched, making this a case that doesn’t reduce to simple right and wrong. Note that many details about what specific trouble Rui got into circulate in the thread only as hearsay or unconfirmed information, so this article has omitted comments touching on unverified allegations about a named individual. One point readers could easily misread: Momoka’s post is strictly a protest against “the repeated rehashing of past coverage” — it is not an official statement on whether Rui remains active or has retired.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports Express+) thread “Okoe Momoka appeals over coverage of brother Okoe Rui: “Please stop digging up the past over and over, writing speculative articles, and chasing him”.”
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