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The story
On September 14, 2026, the Yakult Swallows announced just before their game against the Hiroshima Carp that they were cancelling the planned first-pitch event “Champagne Le Rêve Brillant Day,” citing “various circumstances.” The event had been set to feature a first pitch thrown by an influencer who also works as a current hostess-club hostess, but the same game was also a free-admission day for elementary and middle school students. On 5ch’s entertainment/sports news board (Geinou Supo Sokuhou+), speculation over the reason for the cancellation mixed with debate over the choice to feature a hostess-club hostess in the first place, along with comparisons to risqué promotions other teams have run in the past.
Pro baseball’s Yakult Swallows announced on the 14th that they were cancelling the event “Champagne Le Rêve Brillant Day,” which had been planned for that day’s game against the Hiroshima Carp at Jingu Stadium.
The team apologized on its official website, saying: “Regarding today’s planned ‘Champagne Le Rêve Brillant Day’ event, we have decided to cancel it due to various circumstances. We deeply apologize for the last-minute notice.”
The game itself on the 14th will go ahead as scheduled.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Can't think of any other explanation.
Given this trend, I was hoping we'd get a first pitch from a popular adult-video actress too.
Don't call a hostess girl — call a Yakult Lady instead (the door-to-door probiotic drink saleswomen the team's named after).
People who go to the ballpark are basically there for the hostess-club vibe anyway lol
Most of them are just lined up at the food stalls instead of watching the game.
You just want to look at the beer-vendor girls and the idol doing the first pitch, don't you?
Even the YouTube view counts come from stuff involving women, not the actual plays.
The players and team staff were probably looking forward to the "after" once the game was over lol (a hostess-club term for going out with a customer after her shift)
The post-game "first-pitch ceremony" is cancelled too (a pun: 子宮式 "uterus ceremony" is a homophone of 始球式 "first-pitch ceremony")
This is a human rights violation.
> The first pitch was set to be thrown by KIHO, a current hostess-club hostess who also works as an influencer and brand producer.
Inviting someone like that to throw the first pitch —
whoever planned this must be out of their mind lol
"Vendor Girl Bar" to Open After Games at Nippon-Ham's Home Stadium Escon Field — Could It Violate the Adult Entertainment Business Law? [Updated]
2023/7/25 (Tue) 8:35
It's been reported that a "Vendor Girl Bar," featuring the stadium's top-selling concession vendors, will open after games at the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters' home stadium, Escon Field Hokkaido. The concern is how this relates to regulations under the Adult Entertainment Business Control Law.
Nippon-Ham pulled a shady stunt and got slammed for it.
In Japan, this kind of thing runs straight into legal trouble.
Nippon-Ham forced through problems with the stadium design too, so they probably just ignore the rules.
You really have to wonder what's going on with compliance at Yakult HQ at this point.
If it were the Giants or Tigers, they never would have planned this.
Yeah, that's exactly it.
It really is always Hiroshima that gets this kind of treatment.
Probably because tickets sell themselves for Giants or Tigers games without needing gimmicks like this lol
After all, they looked the other way when yakuza members forcibly took over the backstop seats right in front of the cameras during a Giants game.
https://www.yakult-swallows.co.jp/ticket/make_friends
I see, so they nipped both sides' futures in the bud, huh.
Amazing that they thought it'd be fine to have someone who works at a venue that bans minors throw the first pitch lol
There are plenty of female fans too.
Seriously, exactly.
Might as well call in a host-club guy too while they're at it.
Exactly this — wish they'd think about whether the event actually fits the audience back at the planning stage.
[Yakult] Dan Mitsu's Seductive First Pitch in a School Swimsuit
[August 11, 2013, 9:25 PM]
https://www.nikkansports.com/baseball/news/f-bb-tp0-20130811-1171788.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksX_IIZvREI
Hmm…
That's not something you do somewhere with kids and women around.
Whoever planned it clearly wasn't thinking.
Did the Yakult Ladies (the door-to-door probiotic drink saleswomen, affectionately called "Yakult aunties") push back?
At this point, let's just invite a sex-industry worker too!
Background and Key Points of This Topic
There’s precedent for this kind of controversy: back in 2023, the Nippon-Ham Fighters drew criticism over the “Vendor Girl Bar” at their home stadium Escon Field, which raised questions under the Adult Entertainment Business Control Law — showing that team-run events pairing hospitality-industry staffing with baseball tend to invite backlash. Yakult itself has form here too, having run a first-pitch event in 2013 featuring Dan Mitsu in a school swimsuit, so a risqué promotion is nothing new for the team. This time, the fact that the game in question overlapped with Free Admission Day for elementary and middle schoolers appears to be one reason the mismatch with the audience fueled so much criticism. The team has not disclosed any specific reason for the cancellation beyond “various circumstances,” and the real story remains unannounced.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou Supo Sokuhou+) thread “[Baseball] Yakult Abruptly Cancels “Champagne Le Rêve Brillant Day,” Which Was to Feature Hostess-Club Hostesses, Apologizes Citing “Various Circumstances” — Stirs Controversy Online.”
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