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The story
On November 5, Gentosha editor Kosuke Minowa posted his personal opinion on X. Following a press conference over GMO Internet Group’s unauthorized-access incident, he wrote of the entrepreneurs criticizing President Masatoshi Kumagai: “I can’t stand watching trash-tier entrepreneurs piling on to bash Kumagai-san the moment they get the chance” and “It’s embarrassing.” On 5ch, opinions clashed between defenders and critics over Kumagai’s conduct and appearance at the press conference, the fact that Minowa and Gentosha president Toru Kenjo are close with Kumagai, and mentions of Horiemon and others named as targets of the criticism.
Kosuke Minowa shares his opinion: “I can’t stand watching trash-tier entrepreneurs piling on to bash Kumagai-san the moment they get the chance”
Gentosha editor Kosuke Minowa updated his X account on the afternoon of the 5th.
He posted a scathing personal opinion aimed at some entrepreneurs criticizing GMO Internet Group President Masatoshi Kumagai, who had held a press conference over the unauthorized-access issue.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Some random middle-aged guy talking down to everyone about "governance" is so lame it's not even funny.
Showing up in sunglasses with stubble and then getting told to button his shirt — that's basically a joke at this point.
I mean, a grown adult not even combing his bangs up — not realizing THAT'S way more embarrassing than an unbuttoned shirt is the scary part.
At a press conference where he himself was the one who should've been under fire, he power-harassed a subordinate just to make himself look a little bigger. Sounds like he's well-liked among his inner circle (Horie and friends), but that just means he's the type who changes his attitude depending on who he's talking to — the least trustworthy kind of person there is.
The endgame of capitalism.
In the end it's just cronies playing favorites with cronies until the whole thing's washed up.
Embarrassing.
That's exactly why that press conference went the way it did, and exactly why the company got this big in the first place.
For better or worse, that press conference was 100% Kumagai, no more and no less.
Hammering him with "the correct take" is completely missing the point.
Most people watching are the ones who get scolded by their boss, not the other way around, so it's obvious which side most people will side with.
That kind of thing shouldn't happen in front of the cameras at an apology press conference.
It's an automated "kotatsu article" mill (lazy armchair-journalism pieces churned out without leaving the house) — a machine or a bottom-rung worker auto-generates one every time the target updates.
Targets get swapped out based on view counts,
so if nobody clicks, it just quietly disappears.
Watching it all unfold while your dinner tastes extra good over it (schadenfreude) is the best part.
Minowa is Kenjo's subordinate.
Working title: "Hourglass of Life," maybe?
Give it time and they'll start saying something like "Japanese people are just broken," pure misplaced resentment.
If you want to defend him, just talk about Kumagai's actual achievements.
Instead they go bashing right back at the critics
without anyone even asking them to —
the kind of "help" nobody wanted.
Not everyone's a good guy, but it's also not impossible that it's not all bad guys either.
Exactly lol.
Can't say it to his face, so he does it on social media instead lol.
Is he talking about Horiemon?
It's Horiemon, right? I thought so too.
Not many other entrepreneurs have actually brought up President Kumagai.
Horiemon was the only one going on and on about old anecdotes lol.
It wasn't outright criticism, but I did feel a critical edge to it.
From Kumagai's point of view, Horiemon's probably trash-tier too.
Hiroyuki gives his know-it-all take, and Mizoguchi monetizes it and wraps things up.
Well, the biggest idiot is still the old media that covers this exact same stuff every single time.
Background and Key Points of This Story
GMO Internet Group disclosed an unauthorized-access incident, and President Masatoshi Kumagai addressed it at a press conference. Kosuke Minowa is an editor at Gentosha, and 5ch users pointed out that Gentosha’s president, Toru Kenjo, is close with Kumagai — one reason his supportive post got read as “favoring his own circle.” What split the thread was that reactions to Kumagai’s handling of the press conference itself, and reactions to Minowa’s harsh language toward the entrepreneurs criticizing him, ran along two separate axes. The two central points of debate were: reactions to the moment where Kumagai sharply called out a subordinate during the press conference, and speculation over exactly who Minowa had in mind as his target (with guesses pointing to Horiemon and other entrepreneurs). Note that some replies containing unfounded, definitive accusations against real companies or individuals have been excluded from this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisoku+) thread “Kosuke Minowa shares his opinion: “I can’t stand watching trash-tier entrepreneurs piling on to bash Kumagai-san the moment they get the chance” / “It’s embarrassing”.”
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