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Actor Masahiro Higashide (38) updated his note blog on the 24th with a rebuttal exceeding 1,200 characters, taking issue with reporting from certain news sites. Ever since the affair scandal with actress Erika Karata led to his divorce from Anne, Higashide’s child support payments, relationships, and lifestyle in Yamanashi have repeatedly made headlines. On 5channel, reactions were split: some wondered “what’s the point of covering this so relentlessly,” while others were unmoved, calling it “just clickbait” and insisting “it won’t change how people see him.” Unverified claims about child support and his home life also circulated, fueling the debate.
Masahiro Higashide: “What’s the Point of Writing an Article Like This?” — Actor Disputes Reports in 1,200+ Word Essay – Nikkan Sports
September 24, 2026, 11:50 AM
Actor Masahiro Higashide (38) updated his note blog on the 24th, disputing an article from a news site.
Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
He went on ReHacQ (a popular interview YouTube channel) and it totally changed how I see him.
He's actually pretty interesting.
I mean, Anne probably got taken in by him too.
He really does come across as personable and trustworthy.
I've seen him a few times in videos from some sumo stable.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uGwqu39p380
Looks stupidly delicious.
He's a total nobody to begin with anyway.
Well, the affair caused his agency a ton of grief, and on top of that he was calling women over to the hotel he was staying at near a shoot location — that's why the agency dropped him in anger…
Isn't it because Anne's talent agency is powerful?
When the woman's side has that kind of clout, the guy gets absolutely torn apart in the press during a divorce.
If it's a Burning-affiliated agency (a talent agency known for heavy media influence), they'll even run stories claiming he was abusive.
That woman also left the mountain cabin early on — they're living separately now.
So the child support might've gone up to ¥40,000?
Higashide's only at the mountain cabin on weekends to begin with — everyone's got the wrong idea.
No idea if this is even true, though —
it's just someone's testimony, nothing more.
With stuff like this, you can't really refute it since there's no evidence either way, so people don't bother.
My own ex-wife said whatever she wanted to people around her too.
When we divorced, even her parents grilled me over it, but I never confirmed or denied anything.
So he cheats, gets divorced,
then goes and has a kid with yet another woman.
What a selfish guy.
Oh really?
I recall reading somewhere that it's around Yamanashi, just past Hachioji,
and apparently the commute from central Tokyo isn't even that bad.
Never heard this name in my life. Quit starting self-promo threads for some nobody entertainer.
She's got more talent than Higashide.
And once the kids are old enough to use the internet, they might stumble on it too.
No matter what kind of father he is,
if the kids ever feel that blood connection, they might get curious about him.
Kind of a sad story.
She started saying it was 'hell' right after the wedding, so why'd they go and have kids a year apart?
Higashide should've just divorced quickly before having kids.
How many kids do they even have?
One would be one thing, but having more in that kind of environment is questionable too.
If it's not true, he could just deny it.
There's no point denying anything to someone who's already decided one side's story is 100% true.
You know going in they can only think in absolutes — zero or a hundred, nothing in between.
If it were just one or two lies, fine, but it was nothing but claims I had zero memory of.
I did deny all of it during mediation, of course.
I wasn't about to accept paying a settlement over lies born out of someone's persecution complex.
That's like three sheets of manuscript paper (genkoyoshi, ~400 characters each).
Background and Key Points of This Story
Since the affair scandal with actress Erika Karata led to Higashide’s divorce from Anne in 2020, his lifestyle and personal relationships have repeatedly become the subject of media coverage. This latest note post is framed as a direct rebuttal from Higashide himself to one specific article among that ongoing coverage — and it’s become fairly common in recent years for celebrities to explain themselves directly via SNS or note rather than through traditional outlets. In the thread, posters cite specific figures and details about child support amounts and his partner’s separate living situation, but these remain hearsay and speculation from individual posters rather than information officially confirmed by Higashide or those involved. Whether his rebuttal holds up can’t really be judged until both sides’ accounts are fully laid out.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Masahiro Higashide: “What’s the Point of Writing an Article Like This?” — Actor Disputes Reports in 1,200+ Word Essay.”
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