Japanese celebrity who criticized Hallyu fired from his agency

[jaejunggim.livejournal.com]

A few days ago, we reported that Japanese actor Sousuke Takaoka had made several comments regarding his distaste of the ‘Hallyu Wave’ currently hitting Japan, which drew both withering criticism and cautious praise.

It was recently revealed that due to his inflammatory comments, the actor was fired from his entertainment agency, Stardust Promotion. In a series of tweets he posted to his Twitter account, he expressed his feelings over leaving the agency. He stated, “I was fired from Stardust Promotion. Because of a single mistake, it caused trouble to everyone related to the agency. I feel that this was a logical consequence. Thank you, everyone who supported me”.

He went on to say that he will not be making any protests stating, “I’m not hoping to be viewed as a wise person… I hope the citizens will make their own wise decisions.”

He also added, “I’m scared that there will be made-up reports of my fall from grace, but I’ll take the criticism that comes my way. Those of us in Japan who have yet to catch on will believe those reports. Please remember that I will not, 120 percent, commit suicide.”

Source: Money Today via Naver ; akp

Comments

[meterstandkaart.livejournal.com]

Oh well, he can live off his cute as hell top actress wife.

[noxiouspanda.livejournal.com]

Who's his wife?

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

now that's what I call fast Karma

[icedevil0289.livejournal.com]

oh snap. well his comments were rather racist.

also that suicide comment, might just be me, but it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. idk if he was joking or not, but I think the suicide rate in japan in pretty high so to make a joke about it pretty cruel. well to joke about suicide regardless is cruel imo. then again it might be me reading into it too much.

[imyoona.livejournal.com]

I don't think he's joking. I think he's reassuring people that he won't since, like you said, the suicide rate in Japan is pretty high

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

He kind of deserved it :[

[noxiouspanda.livejournal.com]

anyone have the link to all the comments he made?

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

holy shit, stardust does not play around!

tho, they've been looking for a reason to fire him for ages now, IMO

[lenra.livejournal.com]

they've been looking for a reason to fire him for ages now, IMO

wow really? was there a reason for this?

[naj-mahal.livejournal.com]

Fabulous music choice, OP.

[691979082.livejournal.com]

Oh shit. They fired him? O_O; Wow. Just... wow.

[eglinton-w.livejournal.com]

I feel sorry for him, he was only saying what he was feeling. Although he could be more diplomatic with his words because there are so many ways to express yourself without being rude and harsh.

In a way I can understand him. Maybe it's one of those moments when you see something so often you get annoyed by it?

[meowmau.livejournal.com]

glad i wasn't the only one who thinks of the same thing. ;)

[arsinoi.livejournal.com]

The guy always came across to me as a douche (but he's a great actor) so his comments were a normal thing coming from him. Still, to get fired for voicing his opinions was too much imo. He did sound grossly xenophobic but he did not call the koreans parasites or anything. It was just his opinion. :/
As much as I don't like him that punishment was harsh. I still hate how the japanese can't speak out their minds and not endanger their whole career...

[oonalala.livejournal.com]

Agreed. His comments were super distasteful and make him look like a jackass, but firing him for it seems a little too much. Unless there's more to the story, which is always possible.

[spread.livejournal.com]

Opp.

[itskimbitches.livejournal.com]

other people's pussy?

[lenra.livejournal.com]

He was a big douche imo but this news about him being fired caught me by surprise, i think if he made the same comments without mentioning Fuji Tv there wouldn't be any problems, because i think there are actors of that same agency that are working with that tv station he criticized.

and the comment about suicide freak me out, it's that serious, are other tv stations going to block him or what? O_O

[lovebum4life.livejournal.com]

Aww I feel sorry for him :/ But I guess he deserved it. I still like his wife though

[hajar-a.livejournal.com]

isn't this just so extreme thing to do ?

[obeytheempress.livejournal.com]

I don't feel sorry for him. If he's annoyed by Hallyu than so be it but his comments came off as childish. He needs to realize the industry is changing and deal with it. If his agency felt his comments reflected badly on them, they had every right to fire him.

[seobyo.livejournal.com]

agreed

[beatification.livejournal.com]

Everybody is entitled to an opinion, but it doesn't mean they need to broadcast it to the world. To make a public statement like that is irresponsible and immature. I just hope that he is not seen as a martyr of some kind on the anti-hallyu movement.

[sandra-hall.livejournal.com]

unfair

[scarletfbl.livejournal.com]

This. People are like, "Oh, I feel sorry for him. He was just expressing his opinion, he shouldn't get fired for it!" Sure, but the content of an opinion matters, too. When he went on to say that he doesn't want anything to do with stuff that comes on TV/in the media that contains Korean things, THAT'S when he crossed a line. LOL @ these people being all "OK, so he sounded xenophobic..." Yeah, because what he said WAS xenophobic. SMFH @ OMNTD, rn.

Also, LOL @ your icon. XD

[opal.livejournal.com]

that was quick.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_pinkfish/]

"Please remember that I will not, 120 percent, commit suicide.”

LOL
You'd better not. I love your movies. xD

But yeah, that whole thing on Twitter was really really dumb.

Wonder what his wife has to say about all this. :P

[gunsandsmoke.livejournal.com]

that last post on here about this was a fucking mess. "w/e i still love him!! he's right korea should stop invading japan" it's called capitalism. you are ignorant cunts, and acting like backwards conservative japanese nationalists won't actually make you any closer to being japanese, just fyi.

[lightspeedsquid.livejournal.com]

perfect comment

[the-erotomanic.livejournal.com]

i'm not entirely sure if "fire" is the appropriate term to use here. i mean, don't agencies "drop" their artists rather than fire them? anyhoo, i do hope he realizes that his opinion is xenophobic. and that the world is changing and there is no escaping globalization.

even with that derpy expression, he looks hot.

[831panda831.livejournal.com]

Although I think that an apology would have been a better way to say sorry and for him to continue his career after that extremely distasteful comment , this is probably the second best option his agency went with. It may be his opinion but it came off as racist. Too bad :\

[es2pido.livejournal.com]

I think he was asked to, but he refused. Hence, this last resort.

[bamboolover.livejournal.com]

I wish Korean celebrities who say even worse thing would be fired like that.

[bubble-monkey9.livejournal.com]

lol deserves it tbh. I can't believe there were people on here who actually agreed with his xenophobic comments