The 44-year-old mother of singer Minami Takahashi was arrested for obscene acts with a 15-year-old boy. Takahashi, 20, is a member of AKB48, the country’s most popular female pop group and, CNET reported, a US$200 business.
According to Jiji Press (via the Tokyo Reporter), the mother, pictured above, told police, “I was compelled to do several terrible things.” She was fined 500,000 violating an ordnance regarding healthy youth development.
Mother of AKB48 member Minami Takahashi arrested [Tokyo Reporter]
Steve
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 7:37 AMA $200 business! I should quit my day job now and join a pop group.
Ynefel
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 8:10 AMGo go gadget Bashcraft! Weeeeeee!
lambomann007
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 8:58 AMWah? How is this even related to video games?
Ynefel
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:06 AMIn Kotaku US, you do not question Bashcraft or his obsession with all things Japanese, no matter how irrelevant they are. Nor do you question his superlative journalistic and/or proof reading skills.
p tear griffin
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:26 AMAshcraft you fucking suck
Shudster
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:33 AMAsscraft….
“She was fined 500,000 violating an ordnance regarding healthy youth development.”
What the hell is a ‘violating an ordnance regarding healthy youth development’, and where can I get 500,000 of them?
Ruen
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:38 AMI think he meant 500,000 yen
Shudster
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:14 AMIndeed he did, and maybe the sentence would be fine without that detail if it wasn’t missing some other important words, like, ‘for’.
Will
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 9:42 AMAshcraft, you do realise we all hate you, right?
Jiff
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:35 AMNo we don’t
Reign
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:19 AMIronically, I clicked on this article purely for the comments, and have thus contributed to increasing the number of pageviews.
InformedGamer
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:17 AMI saw the author and the typos and also came just for the comments…
Must be something in the water over in Japan.
Susan_boyle
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:02 AMAshcroft is far more interesting than the losers who add negative comments ad nauseum to everything he posts. Last time I was in Japan akb48 were still no. 1 on the charts and well and truly (k)otaku.
The Steeng
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 11:57 AMNice try, Bashcraft’s sockpuppet.
Chazz
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:11 PMThey were well and truly “The Gamer’s Guide: Videogame News and Reviews”?
Desert Dog
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:03 PMI guess that just means Bashcraft doesn’t need to find any flimsy videogame connection to his japanophile posts anymore.
Jiff
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 12:43 PMSloppy article this one.. but the chinese hacking den one was ok so it ain’t all bad.
Peir
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:30 PMwhat did i just read i seriously have no idea all ive learnt is evidently japanese pop stars don’t earn much money
Sage
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 1:50 PMWhat obscene acts..?
This site is shit, you click on the article and then there’s no extra information that wasn’t in the preview on the page before.
Brandon
Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 10:08 PMI just don’t understand how you can make so mny mistakes when you simply “cut and paste” for a living.