On September 14, King Kong’s Akihiro Nishino posted a gripe on X about “staff who are slow to respond,” and it got picked up as a news article. The Yahoo News excerpt frames it as a general point that “a delayed reply stalls the other person’s decisions and creates a cost for the whole team,” but the thread title presents it as targeting “staff who need to care for children or family members,” and 5ch users were split — some reacting to the remark itself, others bringing up his past history of alleged workplace harassment.
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Akihiro Nishino (46), of the comedy duo King Kong, updated his X (formerly Twitter) account on the 14th, describing the kind of staff he’d “like to see quit right away.”
Nishino opened with: “Yesterday I called out a staff member for being slow to respond, but I don’t think slow responses should just be waved off as ‘being bad at your job.’ Response speed is really about how you treat the other person’s time. When my reply is delayed, it stalls the other person’s decision-making, and that in turn stalls the work of whoever’s downstream of them. In other words, slow responses aren’t just my own problem — they rack up costs for the whole team.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
Apparently he's teaming up with the Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum on it.
This is the first permanent exhibition by King Kong's Akihiro Nishino, who's both a comedian and a picture-book author.
You can see the exhibit with regular admission to the Kawaguchiko Music Forest Museum.
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I figured it meant he didn't want to hire people who take time off or leave early for childcare or caregiving, but turns out it's more like: anyone who won't move the way His Majesty Nishino wants is basically an old person or a baby, so hurry up and quit lol
That's a pretty risky thing to say in this day and age, lmao
"I just want you all to know how small-minded I am!"
—basically his self-introduction.
Go read it again.
Dismissing something as fundamental to life as childbirth and childcare just because you're the boss — that's absolutely unacceptable.
I mean, shouldn't you first be thinking it's messed up to make someone work in that state at all?
You should work on your patience and actually read the whole thing.
You should read it properly too.
Seriously, stop putting this guy on a pedestal.
Japan's going to end up messed up.
Reminds me of when he bragged on the radio about screaming at his staff.
Well, it's Nishino, so I guess it's fine.
but honestly, he's not wrong.
chalking up a subordinate's slow responses to their personal attitude toward work
seems like a dangerous way to frame it.
I think it's more important to first ask yourself
whether the workload distribution and staffing levels are actually appropriate.
If you don't trust them, don't use them at all.
I bet most business owners out there secretly feel the same way.
It's probably closer to "I don't want to do disability hiring" than anything else.
This is a total bait-and-switch thread title.
Way too different from what's actually in the article.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
Nishino is known for his unconventional business approach — his picture book “Poupelle of Chimney Town” and crowdfunding a museum among them — but he’s also repeatedly drawn criticism for overbearing treatment of staff, and his contract situation with Yoshimoto Kogyo has been a recurring talking point. This particular post is, on its face, a general statement about work — that slow responses rack up costs for the whole team — and the quoted portion never actually mentions “childcare or caregiving.” The thread title ties that general statement to “staff who need childcare or caregiving,” but as one commenter points out, there’s a real gap between the article’s actual content and the thread title, and that gap has itself become one of the thread’s talking points. It’s worth reading not just for opinions on the remark itself, but also for how faithfully the headline reflects what was actually said.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Sports/Entertainment News+) thread “King Kong’s Nishino: ‘Staff who need childcare or caregiving’ should quit right away — ‘This company is neither a school nor a nursing home’.”
