Please spread the word about yamaguchi maho. She was attacked. The men were not prosecuted. Her management covered it up since it was other members boyfriends. She was forced to apologize for speaking about it. We need justice.
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I have been following Mahohon’s case since the very beginning and this is outrageous.
tldr: ngt48 member was doxxed by another member(s), was attacked in her apartament corridor by two men who are probably sex friends of member(s) who doxxed her for voicing out her disapproval as team’s vice capitan for member(s) dating their fans. management tried to make it look like she misunderstood the situation to “do the damage control” but failed miserably. they MADE HER APOLOGIZE TO THE PUBLIC when attackers and member(s) got no punishment.
For everyone who is not familiar with this case, Yamaguchi Maho is 23 years old member of NGT48′s Team G. She was attecked in her apartament building by two men that covered her mouth and pushed her down on a ground. If it wasn’t for the probability that someone was in the elevator that rang next to them, it could’ve ended much worse.
Police was alarmed on that accident but they let both of the guys off without forwarding the case. Maho was promised by Imamura, the manager of NGT theatre that AKS (the company), NGT management, Niigata’s government and police will work the case out but nothing happened.
Maho revealed the info on this accident during her SHOWROOM stream (platform similar to VApp) and you can read the translation of the stream here. The stream was cut halfway and since removed and it’s highly likely done by either NGT management or AKS.
She then proceeded to continue her story on twitter, and her translated tweets are here, here, here and here. Basically she was doxxed by another member (or members) who told her attackers her address, phone number and her parents address. After the attack she stayed in her fellow member and best friend’s house, since she was too afraid to come back to the NGT dorm.
For more than a day there was no official statement either from NGT management or AKS considering the matter and the first time we got an feedback was Maho herself who was made to apologize during the groups 3rd anniversary concert. I saw video on twitter, but it had since been deleted. Anyhow, she is visibly uncomfortable and shaking. Also she lost about 4kgs due to stress in last two weeks, she’s clearly not in a good health. There are reports from local fans that one (or both) of the attackers were sitting in the front row during THAT concert.
After all of this, NGT management and AKS decided to sweep this under the rug with failed cover-up “scandal articles”. In their official statement issued after Maho’s apology, they stated the attackers were Maho’s psychofans who “just wanted to talk to her”. They promised new safety measurements and confirmed member(s) involvement in the case by admitting that “member(s) told the attackers the time Yamaguchi will come back home”. It also has been decided that attackers are now banned from all NGT events.
It is worth mentioning that local fans have already figured out who one of the attacker is. He had been banned from both AKB48 and Keyakizaka46 activities after basically stalking members (namely Keyaki Shida Manaka and Imaizumi Yui in 2017, he had been baned from AKB before) and had moved to Niigata after NGT48 formation. He also has a history appearing in front of member’s dorms screaming their names, you can watch a snipped here. To make things worse... well, you can read his tweets and he somehow managed to take control of the apartament’s cameras (notably the camera near the doors, that’s how he got a security code and the camera in the elevator to know on what floor members live).
On the upside note, many current and graduated 48g members have twitted in support of Yamaguchi (most importantly: Kitahara Rie, Sashihara Rino, Kashiwagi Yuki, Mukaichi Mion, Ota Aika, Otaki Yuria and more). Sashihara promised to use her name to spread awareness on this issue in the media.
Note: Both Yamaguchi and management as a whole don’t say names. It is a PURE SPECULATION that members involved are Tano Ayaka, Nishigata Marina and freshly dropped kenkyuusei Hagiri Runa.
I hope i made the case clear for everyone... please spread this around tumblr because no one wants to talk about it and i already planned to make a post about this. Let’s try to make it as well-known as possible, since without pressure from outside, this won’t be solved and if this situation continues, it will put more girls in danger.
