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Neighbors have reportedly come forward about nuisance behavior — including deafening helicopter noise and late-night parties — at “GMO Marina & Spa Sajima,” a guesthouse in Sajima, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, owned by GMO Internet Group representative Masatoshi Kumagai (63). A Shukan Bunshun investigation also revealed that on the very night GMO disclosed it had suffered a cyberattack, Kumagai was attending a champagne party in a tuxedo, surrounded by two beautiful women. On 5ch, the thread split between criticism of this behavior and skepticism about the actual severity of the noise and the timing of the reporting, with no clear consensus emerging.
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“…My wife has become a nervous wreck from the helicopter noise…”
Sajima, Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Along the coast of a marine resort overlooking Sagami Bay stands a conspicuous white building — GMO’s guesthouse, “GMO Marina & Spa Sajima.” It’s a three-story structure, with a living room that opens up in a two-story atrium; beyond its large windows lie an outdoor pool and the blue sea. A pier where boats can be moored sits right alongside it.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Is some kind of hostile-takeover scheme against the company kicking off here, like that TBS thing?
Guess he's getting dug up, huh.
We won't know that unless Kumagai himself proves it.
Both reflect the president's attitude toward running the company.
There's an ER hospital near my place that gets helicopters in, and it's just 'oh, a helicopter' — doesn't bother me at all.
I also lived in front of a hospital for a while — when sirens are going off around the clock, you go numb to it.
This guy's blasting noise only about once a month, whenever a helicopter takes off or lands, so for the neighbors it probably feels like unbearable noise each time.
'Not to be trusted': GMO's Kumagai boasted 'In 31 years I've never once said we're making money' → backlash erupts after 'smoking-gun evidence' surfaces
Wed, 11/4, 16:25 JST
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/4dcbb34b690b9f194baadc1c2c2ab05fe7a34d42
'The column Mr. Kumagai ran in the Yukan Fuji newspaper back in 2003 was titled "Masatoshi Kumagai's Make Money! Profitable Internet!" What's more, if you check the dialogue piece in the publicly available 2004 business report, Kumagai left bullish remarks like "I still feel there's more money to be made"' (web media writer).
In light of this 'smoking-gun evidence,' reactions on X include:
'People who make extreme claims can't be trusted — saying you've never once said it, come on.'
'There's no way a publicly listed company isn't thinking about profit.'
'It's a company, so talking about making money is totally fine. But lying isn't.'
Depends on the flight path.
It's not like all of Yokosuka is noisy.
But if the route happens to pass right overhead, it's hell.
Chairman: 'We don't spend a single wasted yen on security.'
When someone who's been living it up flashy gets caught in a scandal, this is just what happens.
He was completely off everyone's radar until now, but dig even a little and he's covered in dust.
Masatoshi Kumagai is starting to remind me of Hisashi Hieda, lol🤣 (the former Fuji TV chairman who got caught up in his own scandal)
Guess living it up lavishly is the dream.
GMO president Kumagai was enjoying a champagne party on the very day the breach was announced — 'There's a photo of him in a tuxedo surrounded by two beautiful women…'
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/0e09950691ea235bb745f6e56b69107caef37a26
A Shukan Bunshun investigation has revealed that GMO Internet Group president Masatoshi Kumagai (63) attended a lavish champagne party on the night of the very day the company disclosed it had suffered a cyberattack.
Jets are even louder.
Same deal as how biker gangs themselves never notice their own noise.
The guy himself has probably gone half-deaf from the noise by now. Same as how pachinko parlor regulars are totally fine in that environment — someone who's never set foot in a pachinko parlor would get a headache within minutes of walking in.
Precisely because they're already quite rich, having someone flaunt even more wealth right in their face probably rubs them the wrong way.
seeing it only blow up into a big deal now, I guess a lot of people just didn't know?
Given how broadly the company's spread its business, maybe a lot of people really didn't know…
They clawed their way up through stuff like Inter-Q and Dial Q2 (a premium-rate phone service once notorious for adult content lines), then rebranded under the respectable-sounding name 'GMO.' Though if you actually look it up, turns out Inter-Q is still around.
Honestly, just having their HQ in Shibuya is sketchy enough on its own.
Best to just let sleeping dogs lie.
First I'm hearing of it, from this news.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
GMO Internet Group was founded by Masatoshi Kumagai in 1991, growing out of a Dial Q2 phone service business, and is now a publicly listed company with a diversified portfolio. “GMO Marina & Spa Sajima” in Sajima, Yokosuka City, is a company-owned guesthouse in an area said to be lined with other wealthy residents’ vacation homes. The uproar grew because GMO had just disclosed a cyberattack breach shortly before Shukan Bunshun reported that Kumagai attended a champagne party on the very night of that announcement. On the thread, criticism of the nuisance behavior itself coexists with skeptical opinions such as “it’s odd to make a fuss about this now when the neighbors are plenty wealthy themselves” and “it’s a leap to tie the security budget to his management style.” No single consensus emerged. One point readers may easily misread is that the helicopter noise issue and the data-leak incident are, strictly speaking, separate matters — they only got linked and amplified together in coverage because of the distrust provoked by the executive’s conduct.
*This article is an excerpt and summary based on the 5ch (News Flash+) thread “‘My Wife’s Become a Nervous Wreck from the Helicopter Noise’ — Neighbors Reveal GMO Rep Kumagai’s Nuisance Behavior, Champagne Party with Models in Tow.”
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