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The story
Former TV Asahi personality Tetsu Tamagawa apologized live on air on October 22 during TV Asahi’s “Hane Shinichi Morning Show,” saying a remark he’d made about homeless people had been inappropriate. Tamagawa has repeatedly stirred controversy with his comments in the past, and this time attention focused less on the remark itself than on how the apology came about. On the 5ch thread, discussion cared less about whether the remark was appropriate and drifted instead into a tangent about the supposed link between homelessness and hair loss, which spiraled into a debate over whether baldness is genetic or a lifestyle issue. Plenty of commenters, not knowing the exact wording of what he apologized for, said “it’s not even clear what he’s apologizing for.”
Tetsu Tamagawa Apologizes Live On Air — Bows His Head Over Inappropriate Remark About Homeless People, “I Deeply Regret It” (Daily Sports) – Yahoo! News
10/22 (Thu) 11:06 JST
Former TV Asahi employee Tetsu Tamagawa apologized on the 22nd on TV Asahi’s “Hane Shinichi Morning Show” for an inappropriate remark he made about a homeless person.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That's because Tamagawa's basically a controversy-bait entertainer.
Well, the theory that there are no bald homeless people is one thing, but that's not actually what Tamagawa said.
that's common sense if you ask any woman.
It's just that actual baldness is something you can't do anything about, that's all.
if he's going to bow his head over something like this.
people who do full-body exercise tend to go bald less.
Have you never seen a bald athlete in sports?
it's weirder that this is even a morning-show topic.
If a politician said something like this they'd be hounded into resigning,
but His Highness Tamagawa, member of the privileged class, just apologizes and it's over.
Your true feelings just slip right out like that.
I've got a full head of hair, but this is absolutely unforgivable!
I've got so much hair it's practically a problem, but even I say this is totally not okay!
you guys only accept it when it happens to match your own mood, huh.
there's no way he's actually reflecting on it.
What's he even apologizing for?
If their immune system were weak they'd have already died.
No idea who this guy even is.
I don't watch commercial TV, it's wall-to-wall tacky commercials. Sorry about that lolol
it's just a fact that their living conditions are rough.
I don't think "it's fine to discriminate as long as no one complains" is right.
Animals without fur
don't seem like they could survive living outdoors.
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Tetsu Tamagawa is a former TV Asahi employee who has continued to appear as a freelance commentator on the network’s news programs even after leaving the company. He’s stirred controversy with his remarks before, and the thread included comments calling him someone with “a mile-long rap sheet.” This time, his remark appears to have touched on a long-circulating folk belief that homeless people are less prone to hair loss because they rarely wash their hair. The truth of that belief itself is unclear, and the thread also saw pushback, with some pointing out that plenty of homeless people are bald in reality. Opinion split mainly over whether the remark warranted an apology at all, with some saying “there was no need to bring up homeless people” and others saying “it’s not even clear what he apologized for.” The exact wording of the remark that prompted the apology was only shown on the program itself and can’t be pinned down from what’s in the thread.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[TV] Tetsu Tamagawa Apologizes Live On Air, Bows Head Over Inappropriate Remark About Homeless People: “I Deeply Regret It”.”
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