Saori Matsumura’s Staff Official X Apologizes for Inappropriate Post: ‘Staffer Mistakenly Posted Personal Opinion’

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Talent Saori Matsumura’s (34) Staff Official X (formerly Twitter) account was updated on November 15, 2026 with an apology for an inappropriate post. After the account’s operator explained that “a staffer involved in running the account mistakenly posted an inappropriate personal remark,” the 5ch Entertainment/Sports News+ board fixated less on the post’s actual content and more on how it happened. The thread took off over the sense of unfairness that reactions spread to Matsumura herself even though the account name clearly states “STAFF” and the post wasn’t from her — and over a tangent into old grudges surrounding LDH, the major agency closely tied to Matsumura’s own agency.

Saori Matsumura’s Staff Official X Apologizes for Inappropriate Post: “A Staffer Involved in Running the Account Mistakenly Posted an Inappropriate Personal Remark” – Sports Nippon

November 15, 2026, 11:32 AM

Talent Saori Matsumura’s (34) Staff Official X account was updated on the 15th with an apology for an inappropriate post on X.

Source: sponichi.co.jp / Original article here

What people said

2AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:05
Watching Showa-retro exploration videos beats watching Omiya Park's Peace-kun (the park's famously creepy bear mascot) on YouTube any day.
6AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:08
That Chu-Chu Train dance move was a one-hit wonder (riffing on SPEED's famous late-90s song/choreography).
7AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:08
Re: #1

Nogizaka46's Matsumura — notice of termination lol

17AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:09
Re: #7
Make an enemy of the Suo Group (the holding company behind LDH, run by EXILE's HIRO)
and you won't survive in showbiz lol
22AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:10
Re: #7
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (using 'kusowaroringo,' a jokey laughing-slang term)
90AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:22
Re: #7
Things are gonna be awkward every time Matsumura works with an LDH-affiliated talent from now on
8AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:08
But it's true that LDH is finished, right?
10AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:08
EXILE is done for…
41AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:14
Re: #10
Guess they'll rebrand as 'Rivaroxaban' (a blood-thinner drug name — a jab playing off EXILE's name)
12AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:09
Made no sense to me, so I just asked an AI about it
and finally got it
15AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:09
Now that's a manager who really suits the talent, huh
20AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:10
Save that kind of talk for 5ch posts, seriously lol
29AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:11
Someone at the same agency is even married into an LDH group
This is seriously too dumb
31AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:12
Same nature as us anons here — if anything that bumps up my opinion of them
32AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:12
Don't go putting out exactly the excuse statement everyone already predicted
33AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:12
What is this even about?
Does this mean it's like what happened with Ryo from London Boots?
49AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:16
I do give them credit for storming the boy-group market that Johnny's dominated and chipping away at that stronghold at least a little
DA PUMP tried hard before them too, but Johnny's made things rough for everyone back then
Later Johnny's scandals came out and the agency imploded, which is how all sorts of groups got their chance
but I think LDH blazing that trail first was a pretty big deal
95AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:23
Re: #49
Factions wanting to take down Johnny's and factions wanting to push K-pop were both working hard back then
It's a good thing that in the end it was Stardust (talent agency), not K-pop, that came out on top
54AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:16
They're not even apologizing lol
Just wrote down what they were thinking

No idea what that three-letter abbreviation means though
76AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:19
Re: #54
Cholesterol level (LDL — get it, versus LDH)
60AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:18
Figures — it's from the former Ikushima Agency, after all
72AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:19
Re: #60
That explains how Ikushima managed to land the Music Station MC gig
70AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:19
There's no 'mistake' about it
The person who spewed the abuse just wrote it on their own
If you want to call something a mistake, it's the boss who hired that person as the social media manager
81AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:20
Re: #70
I think it means they mistakenly switched accounts (posted from the wrong one)
73AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:19
Why don't they just use separate phones for work and personal stuff?
79AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:20
Re: #73
They just mixed up which account they switched to, that's all
83AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:21
I'm a bit confused — the account name has 'STAFF' right in it, so is this actually Matsumura's own account?
93AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:23
Re: #83
The account is literally named 'Saori Matsumura STAFF' and run by staff — she herself hasn't tweeted a thing —
yet everyone's going 'obviously Saori Matsumura tweeted it.' That's way too much collateral damage for her
91AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:23


The bio even clearly spells out that it's the staff's official X account — this is a textbook case of catching someone else's crash
101AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:25
Re: #91
With celebrity accounts, it's common for staff to run things day-to-day while the bio says something like 'the talent chimes in sometimes too ♫'
but you can tell this one's staff-only posts, no doubt about it
Way too much collateral damage lol
109AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:26
Pinning it on 'the staffer' — nobody's buying that lol
116AnonymousNov 15, 2026 12:27
Re: #109
Even though Matsumura herself has never posted from this account?

Background and Key Points of This Topic

It’s not unusual for celebrity official X accounts to have “STAFF” spelled out right in the account name while staff handle the bulk of the posting, with the talent chiming in only occasionally. In this case too, Matsumura herself never posted, and the profile even noted the account was staff-run — but because the display name includes her own name, there’s an inherent structure where posts get mistaken for her own words. Opinions on the thread split over how much the talent herself should be held responsible for the slip-up, with some blaming the individual staffer’s error and others pointing to problems with hiring and management oversight. The discussion also branched into a debate over LDH (the major agency behind EXILE and others, closely tied to Matsumura’s own agency) — a tangent rooted in 5ch’s recurring arguments about the power balance between LDH and Johnny’s in the boy-group market, playing out as a thread of discussion entirely separate from the post itself.

*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Saori Matsumura’s Staff Official X Apologizes: “A Staffer Involved in Running the Account Mistakenly Posted an Inappropriate Personal Remark”.”

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