{"id":498284,"date":"2022-10-04T16:20:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/kadokawa-chairman-indicted-over-olympic-bribery\/"},"modified":"2022-10-04T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:20:15","slug":"kadokawa-chairman-indicted-over-olympic-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kadokawa-chairman-indicted-over-olympic-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"#Kadokawa Chairman Indicted Over Olympic Bribery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a43219356a2e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a43219356a2e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/kadokawa-chairman-indicted-over-olympic-bribery\/#%E2%80%9CKadokawa_Chairman_Indicted_Over_Olympic_Bribery%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Kadokawa Chairman Indicted Over Olympic Bribery&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CKadokawa_Chairman_Indicted_Over_Olympic_Bribery%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Kadokawa Chairman Indicted Over Olympic Bribery&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The chairman of publishing company <strong>Kadokawa<\/strong> has been indicted by prosecutors for bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee executive, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/english.kyodonews.net\/news\/2022\/10\/3cf5f8324ffe-publisher-kadokawas-chairman-to-be-indicted-over-olympics-bribery.html\">Kyodo News reported<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The 79-year old <strong>Tsuguhiko Kadokawa<\/strong> was arrested by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in September on suspicion of bribing the then-executive, <strong>Haruyuki Takahashi<\/strong>, with 70 million yen (~US$487 thousand) in order to allow the publisher to become a sponsor for the Tokyo <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>s. Takahashi has been indicted for accepting a bribe from fashion company Aoki Holdings Inc. and was rearrested on September 27 on suspicion of accepting a bribe from advertising firm Daiko.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to Kyodo <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a>, prosecutors also indicted Kadokawa adviser Toshiyuki Yoshihara and employee Kyoji Maniwa, the latter being the person in charge of business related to the Tokyo Games, for collusion of bribery with the chairman. Aside from being selected as sponsor, it is alleged that the Kadokawa side asked for a sponsorship fee cap of 380 million yen (~US$2.6 million) and to quickly conclude a sponsorship contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Kyodo News also reported that Kadokawa, via a statement released through his lawyers, revealed his intention to step down while continuing to claim that he was innocent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In response to Kadokawa being indicted, the publisher <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ssl4.eir-parts.net\/doc\/9468\/ir_material7\/192362\/00.pdf\">simply issued a brief statement<\/a> saying, \u201cWe take this matter very seriously, and deeply apologize to all those concerned including our readers, customers, authors, creators, business partners, shareholders, and investors for the considerable inconvenience this matter has caused.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The publisher was founded in 1945 by Kadokawa\u2019s father Genyoshi. The company has since expanded beyond publishing to involve itself with video and games.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Kyodo News<\/span>\n            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n                (function(d, s, id) {\n          var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n          if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n          js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n          js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.9&appId=269442613521839\";\n          fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n        }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n        <\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAqBwgKMLG0nwswvr63Aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/anime-manga\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"6\" title=\"Anime || Manga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime<\/a>-manga articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/anime-manga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anime-manga category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/10\/04\/kadokawa-chairman-indicted-over-olympic-bribery\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kadokawa-chairman-indicted-over-olympic-bribery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Kadokawa Chairman Indicted Over Olympic Bribery&#8221; The chairman of publishing company Kadokawa has been indicted by prosecutors for bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee executive, Kyodo News reported. The 79-year old Tsuguhiko Kadokawa was arrested by the Tokyo District Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office in September on suspicion of bribing the then-executive, Haruyuki Takahashi, with 70&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/kadokawalogo.jpg?fit=968,506&ssl=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime-manga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}