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The story
Former TV director Nagisa Watanabe has argued that the entertainment-industry mindset of “people with a screw loose make more interesting content” is outdated. The article cites a University of Tokyo graduate school survey published this past March, which found that 70% of 119 women working in the broadcasting industry had experienced sexual jokes or teasing.
On 5channel, users brought up the Sato Jiro dressing-room controversy and the case involving Janpoke’s Shinji Saito, sparking a flurry of posts both for and against the culture of the TV industry.
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“On TV, people with a screw loose make more interesting stuff.” “That’s just how show business is.” ──── These are things I heard often back when I worked at a TV station.
This past March, a research team including one from the University of Tokyo’s graduate school published a survey on working conditions in the broadcasting industry. Of the 119 women who took part, 70% said they had experienced sexual jokes or teasing. As many as 53 women (44.5%) reported experiences such as “being touched unnecessarily.” On top of that, 14.2% of women said they had been “assigned to sexual-entertainment duty,” underscoring just how low awareness of human rights is in the broadcasting industry.
Source: news-postseven.com / Read the original article here
What people said
Yeah
Guess you're only following the story in vague outline.
the actress involved and Nagisa-chan
have the same people pulling strings behind the scenes, so… you can guess.
Good-for-nothings who excel at one thing.
Lying again, lol
What Sato Jiro actually said was that if her trauma-related limitations couldn't be shared with co-stars in advance, then she shouldn't keep working.
Twisting things and lying like this is exactly why nobody trusts any of it anymore.
Don't nitpick.
The real problem to begin with is barging into the dressing room in the first place.
creepy how, right after waking up feeling unwell, she sets up filming gear to make a candle.
has been passed down to ABEMA these days.
Yeah, they say ABEMA and other streaming shows are popular because their compliance standards are as loose as the Showa era.
Novelists are the same way.
playing the victim is all she's got.
as if it were her own idea.
That's not nitpicking —
it's an extremely important point.
The part about sharing it with co-stars in advance?
Chiikawa, which is all the rage right now, is probably the same.
walking shows,
shows where they eat corporate tie-in food and go "delicious!",
and… what else was there again?
"Fuji TV, for mothers and children"
CX was originally granted its broadcast license as primarily an educational-programming station.
Really?
Wow, so many suckers take the bait that a Nagisa-chan thread gets made every time lol
Background and Key Points
Nagisa Watanabe worked as a director at TV Asahi before going independent, and she has periodically used her platform to push back on entertainment-industry norms, which is the frame for this post. Sato Jiro is a veteran actor and TV personality; the “dressing-room” incident refers to an on-set dispute with an actress over whether her trauma-related limitations on physical contact had been communicated to castmates beforehand, which spun into a public harassment controversy. Janpoke (ジャングルポケット, “Jungle Pocket”) is a comedy trio, and Shinji Saito is one of its members, tied to a separate scandal referenced only in passing here. The University of Tokyo survey cited — 119 women in broadcasting, published this past March — found 70% had experienced sexual jokes or teasing on the job, with 44.5% reporting unwanted touching and 14.2% saying they were assigned “sexual-entertainment duty” (a euphemism for being pressured into hostessing-adjacent roles at industry gatherings). That data point is what elevates Watanabe’s comment from personal opinion into a structural critique.
The thread’s actual fault line isn’t over the survey — almost no one contests it — but over the Sato Jiro framing. Posters split between those calling the dressing-room confrontation straightforward power harassment and those insisting Watanabe’s telling reversed the actual sequence, that Sato was raising a legitimate coordination need rather than dismissing her trauma. That factual dispute over what was said, not the broader harassment-culture argument, is where the thread actually gets heated.
What’s easy to miss is how muted the survey’s real-world impact was: one reply notes it was published in March and “barely made any waves,” meaning its reappearance here is riding on Watanabe’s name recognition rather than the study cracking through on its own.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread「Nagisa Watanabe: “TV is more interesting when made by people with a screw loose” is an outdated idea! Also touches on the Sato Jiro controversy and Janpoke’s Saito [Ailuropoda melanoleuca★]」.
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