Kago's Third Time is NOT the Charm

[Prinny Squad]

From Tokyograph;



[quote name='"Tokyograph' date=' Sourcing Sponichi Annex"']In January, FRIDAY reported a romance between Ai Kago (20) and actor Hidejiro Mizumoto (33), but the rumor was denied by Kago's agency at the time. Now, the matter has surfaced again, as Mizumoto's ex-wife is seeking damages against both Mizumoto and Kago.



Mizumoto and his wife, Asato (25), had divorced on January 8, before the FRIDAY article had appeared. But Asato claims that the reason for their divorce is that Mizumoto and Kago were having an affair. As a result, she is seeking monetary damages, reportedly on the order of 10 million yen from Kago and 50 million yen from Mizumoto. She is also asking for some of Mizumoto's assets and child support for their three children. The judge has apparently already received Asato's claim, which means that the matter may be taken to court if it is not settled.



Kago met Mizumoto through his mother, the psychic Yoshiko Shimo, whom Kago had often consulted before her comeback to show business. The pair reportedly became intimate after working together on the movie "Benten-dori no Hitobito," which opens in April.



Asato plans to submit Mizumoto's script for "Benten-dori no Hitobito" as evidence. In the back, Kago wrote a message to Mizumoto, which included lines like "I love you" and "If we get married, I want to have a boy," ending jokingly with "This message is a work of fiction."



It is also said that Kago has been living with Mizumoto in his apartment in Kanagawa since the end of last year. Asato has obtained photographic evidence of Kago's underwear, clothes, cosmetics, and other items at the apartment.



Kago's agency has declined to comment.[/quote]



Jesus christ, what is going on with you? It's a huge shame to see her freefall continue, and eventually she's going to hit the bottom. I hope for her and her family's sake that she shapes up, and fast.

[Kaworu]

OMG It's really sad to see this. I'm in shock now, I was kinda happy with her comeback (not all of it, though *cough*pb*cough*), but now I'm just in utter shock.

I hope it's not true. Ruining a marriage is too much, even by not japanese standards (I'm saying this because we all know Japanese people sometimes are way too exaggerated with their moral rules and stuff)...

[Ap2000]

What kind of downfall ?

Since the kago channel film her career has been going all up.



I don't understand why you bitch about her having a boyfriend.



What I also don't understand ist that old girlfriend wanting money from both of them, that's just lol.

[peachgirldb]

To me it looks like they divorced awfully quickly. It's not really the kind of thing you do overnight. Considering the overall culture of marriage in Japan, it wouldn't shock me if they had already been planning to get divorced for a while, and he just happened to start something with Kago before they were done with the process. It doesn't sound like the wife can prove a whole lot about *when* the affair started.

I don't understand why you bitch about her having a boyfriend.



What I also don't understand ist that old girlfriend wanting money from both of them, that's just lol.

Dude, READ. Her "boyfriend" was a married man, and his EX-WIFE is suing. God.

[Special Needs Tricycle]

Kago, please disappear.



That said, why is she seeking more money from Kago than the cheating jackass? I'll never get the logic that the mistress should be blamed more than the cheater.

[Ap2000]

To me it looks like they divorced awfully quickly. It's not really the kind of thing you do overnight. Considering the overall culture of marriage in Japan, it wouldn't shock me if they had already been planning to get divorced for a while, and he just happened to start something with Kago before they were done with the process. It doesn't sound like the wife can prove a whole lot about *when* the affair started.

I don't understand why you bitch about her having a boyfriend.



What I also don't understand ist that old girlfriend wanting money from both of them, that's just lol.

Dude, READ. Her "boyfriend" was a married man, and his EX-WIFE is suing. God.

I did read it :| but we don't know what exactly happened, wether or not they difforced because of Kago.

It's retarded to sue somebody for breaking up, doesn't matter if you're married. I totally disagree with that, though I know it's "normal" in most industrial nations.

Kago, please disappear.



That said, why is she seeking more money from Kago than the cheating jackass? I'll never get the logic that the mistress should be blamed more than the cheater.

"10 million yen from Kago and 50 million yen from Mizumoto"

[Special Needs Tricycle]

Oh, I read 100 million for some reason.



Nevermind~



Kago still needs to go away though.

[Pflaume]

Trying to sue someone for sleeping with your husband is a little over the top, but not surprising nowadays.



That said, respect marriage. Freaking respect it. I don't care if you're already definitely going to get divorced, at least get divorced before you move in with the new girl. It's not even like he didn't have the money to get divorced quickly, either, obviously. If you're married, don't sleep with someone else. It's not that hard to wait, and it's the principle of the freaking thing.



Cheating is something I have low tolerance for, and knowingly sleeping with a married man is a close second.



/personal rant

[loli-tan]

I agree with Trike, Kago needs to go away.

[Sabaku Ika]

I hope she moves on to more interesting crimes soon. Bank robbery?

[Melon]

JESUS CHRIST KAGO.



I agree with Pflaume. If someone's taken, you don't fuck with them. They don't like their lover? Fine. Wait until they're over, and then make your move. There is nothing more disgusting than a bunch of neanderthals that can't control their hormonal urges. I hate relationship drama. Someone needs to slap some sense into that girl. Hell, I'll fly over to Japan to do it. Is it so hard for her to be classy and make a comeback? The acting could've worked if she didn't release that slutty photobook, if she didn't whore herself around, if she had someone to say "WTF ARE YOU DOING YOU DUMBASS" She could've been a nice actress that possibly branched out into the occasional single. She shouldn't bother with showbiz anymore, it clearly has fucked up her head. I don't want to read about her anymore. She's just going to do something "nice" and then do something stupid to fuck it up. This is what, her fourth time fucking up a comeback?



She clearly has some sort of father complex though. What's up with the way older men? They're probably using her and she just wants some sort of fatherly affection.

[EmEl]

[quote name='Petit Melon' post='61739' date='Mar 7 2009, 08:30 PM']She clearly has some sort of father complex though. What's up with the way older men? They're probably using her and she just wants some sort of fatherly affection.[/quote]

She did say in some interview that she was always attracted to older men. At least she knows it?

[tsukinobyouin]

There is definately no excuse for dating a married man, ever. It's one thing to meet someone at a bar and have no idea they're married at first, but in this case it's pretty obvious she knew. Kago has basically turned into the Japanese Britany Spears. Everyone remembers her as innocent and cute, and now she's constantly in and out of scandals. I'm mostly sad for her, because she had such a great opportunity to come back and make something new of herself. Things like this just make me think she doesn't have much of a support network to help her deal with the pressure she's still under trying to make a comeback, so she just keeps making stupid decision after stupid decision.



All that being said, the wife sounds like a bit of a drama queen. I can understand her being hurt and wanting to lash out, but all of the "evidence gathering" and law suit business is over the top. There is no way a judge should reward her damages because she was cheated on. Child support and alimony, of course, but anything beyond that is rediculous.

[eri]

[quote name='TnB' post='61749' date='Mar 7 2009, 07:46 PM']All that being said, the wife sounds like a bit of a drama queen. I can understand her being hurt and wanting to lash out, but all of the "evidence gathering" and law suit business is over the top. There is no way a judge should reward her damages because she was cheated on. Child support and alimony, of course, but anything beyond that is rediculous.[/quote]



Some of this might have to do with securing the children - ie. if one parent is painted as unfit, then the other will have full rights to raise the kids. And, isn't suing for "alienation of affection" becoming quite common these days?



But, also attacking the ex-wife as a "drama queen" seems too cruel. If your husband and father of your children cheated on you, in a horribly public way, with a faded poptart idol, and subsequently destroyed your family...What would you do? Dab at the corner of your eyes and let him get away with it?



I don't really care about Kago but that guy is a total asshat. I hope he burns in hell.



PS. Who wants to bet that Kago will be doing porn within 2 years?

[tsukinobyouin]

All that being said, the wife sounds like a bit of a drama queen. I can understand her being hurt and wanting to lash out, but all of the "evidence gathering" and law suit business is over the top. There is no way a judge should reward her damages because she was cheated on. Child support and alimony, of course, but anything beyond that is rediculous.

Some of this might have to do with securing the children - ie. if one parent is painted as unfit, then the other will have full rights to raise the kids. And, isn't suing for "alienation of affection" becoming quite common these days?

Just because it's common doesn't mean it's a good idea. There are tons of law suits that have become common that are really silly and pointless - a lot of them are won too, but that doesn't mean they should be. I wasn't speaking to the likelihood of her winning or not winning, just expressing what I feel shouldn't happen in general. I don't know about common practice in Japan, but the fact that one partner has cheated on the other doesn't usually give the other partner full custody - usually just primary. I would think she'd need to prove that he was unfit as a parent in some other way - i.e. he was abusive, neglected them, etc. - to deny him custody altogether. Like I said though, she certainly deserves child support and alimony, and even probably primary custody of the kids, but what is taking a bunch of his and Kago's money as "damages" really going to achieve? It's not going to take away what he did.

But, also attacking the ex-wife as a "drama queen" seems too cruel. If your husband and father of your children cheated on you, in a horribly public way, with a faded poptart idol, and subsequently destroyed your family...What would you do? Dab at the corner of your eyes and let him get away with it?

I wouldn't take pictures of Kago's underwear to show the judge - especially since there's no way to prove those are her underwear unless she's going to order a DNA test. He's already gotten away with it. There's nothing she can do to undo what happened, and it's not like it's a crime he can go to jail for. Maybe "drama queen" is too harsh of a word, it wasn't meant to be an attack on her as if she's the one at fault in the whole situation. But really, suing for emotional damage isn't going to take away...her emotional damage. All you can really do in that situation is get a divorce, make sure they live up to their responsabilities to the children, and try to move on with your life. I've seen countless couples go through these nasty divorce battles, and it never ends with the person feeling satsified and better about the whole thing. It just drags them through the mud along with their cheating ex and makes the whole thing more emotionally draining.

[Darkolumb]

Hahaha what a home wrecker. I love how Kago went from innocent little pop-star to queen of the trailer park in under a year. Makes me love her even more <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... #>/wub.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />. I find it funny that the wife has all this photographic evidence too. what'd she do, get some crazy ex-wota stalker to sneak in and snap pictures of anything related to Kago? Makes sense, he did get some of her underwear <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':nosebleed:' /> (which WILL be on the internet sometime soon).



Also, why does this mean her Career's over (again)? Do mediocre sex scandals like this usually end careers in Japan? Cause I know it's like a requirement to be a trifling hoe to be somewhat famous here in the west.

[BeForJess]

Sleeping with a married man = NOT cool.



But suing over it? Stupid.



No respect for any of them. Shame on her for going after someone married, shame on him for fooling around when he is married, and shame on the wife for trying to turn an affair into a money making prospect.



Disgusting.

[neshcom]

Is there any definitive proof that she's a homewrecker? From what I read, the couple divorced and Kago got close to the guy, right? And why should Kago have to pay anything? Cheating's not a crime, just really stupid.

[Pi Mako]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha. This is just hilarious. I can't wait to hear what other crazy things Kago is up to.

[tsukinobyouin]

Also, why does this mean her Career's over (again)? Do mediocre sex scandals like this usually end careers in Japan? Cause I know it's like a requirement to be a trifling hoe to be somewhat famous here in the west.

Yes - not just sex scandals, but scandals in general. See: Uchi Hiroki. He was a lead-ish member of the Johnny's group NEWS until 2004, when he got caught drinking underage (and being roudy in public). He was suspended from the group indefinately. He pretty much was off the map until 2008-ish when he and another suspended member of the group were given "trainee status" (basically lower than H!P eggs). Only recently has he gotten to appear in Johnnys concerts and in some small roles in dramas, but he's never been put back in his original group and has never regained the status he had before. See also: Suzuki Ami, Pscyho le Cemu vocalist Daishi, and countless others. Within H!P, see Yaguchi Mari and Fujimoto Miki. Their careers aren't over necessarily, but their respective scandals definately took them way out of the spotlight for a while.



For Kago, she's had scandal after scandal after scandal, so I think that's why people are saying her career is over. There's only so many times you can come back from shame over there. One one hand, they can be overzealous with the punishments for scandals, but on the other hand it's nice to see that celebrities don't get heralded for being skanky or in and out of rehab over there.

Is there any definitive proof that she's a homewrecker? From what I read, the couple divorced and Kago got close to the guy, right? And why should Kago have to pay anything? Cheating's not a crime, just really stupid.

Mizumoto and his wife, Asato (25), had divorced on January 8, before the FRIDAY article had appeared. But Asato claims that the reason for their divorce is that Mizumoto and Kago were having an affair.

It seems that the wife is trying to prove that Kago and the guy were seeing each other long before the first Friday article appeared.

[Liana]

Damn, I haven't check this bbs in months and this is the first thing I see!



Kago's comeback always left a sour taste in my mouth because I, personally, feel it's very . . . This is going to come off quite weeaboo, but American. I don't herald the Japanese entertainment business as this far superior alternative to the American pop scene- I own a Devi Lovato CD and I'm quite happy with it, thank you. BUT I hate the American celebrity world. If someone in Japan makes a mistake, they bow a lot and either peace out for a while/forever or everyone pretends nothing happened. In America, if someone makes a mistake they spin this huge story out of it, and it's sappy and exaggerated and obnoxious as hell and they go on The View. I don't know if it's because I don't pay that close attention to the Japanese entertainment world, but Kago is the first I've experienced in Japan really hounding on this and telling us all about her sad life so we'll cry a little and give her a big warm hug. Sooo annoying. I hope it does put the final nail in her coffin though because MAN she's gotten obnoxious! But knowing the way this has gone, she could very well end up spinning it into something that works for her. Oh, Kago.

[Pucchi-Mo]

[quote name='Petit Melon' post='61739' date='Mar 7 2009, 09:30 PM']She clearly has some sort of father complex though. What's up with the way older men? They're probably using her and she just wants some sort of fatherly affection.[/quote]

If Father complex = MISSES TSUNKU



then yes, absolutely. <img src='http://mm-bbs.org/public/style_emoticon ... /laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':dammit:' />



On the plus side, we are getting a scandal from someone without an interesting career to ruin. (well, since the other time she ruined it)

[alita87]

Someone mentioned it in the comments over at H!O (which are mostly idiotic comments from people who know nothing about divorce in Japan) but divorce in Japan does not happen overnight. It can take 2+ years to finalize and is very hard to do. And after the divorce is finished the father does not usually see the children, the woman always gets sole custody. But the woman also gets tons of government money for each child, all utility bills paid, most of the rent paid, and school paid for her children. So it is becoming more common in Japan that a woman wants a divorce just because it makes life pretty easy afterwards if you can handle the stigma of having been through a divorce.



So this divorce did not happen because of Kago in any way shape or form. They have been seeing each other, if indeed they have since these are tabloids and rumors still, for too short of a time. The wife is just putting things out like that because she wants to give Kago and her husband bad press, even though she knows the paperwork has been in processing for much longer than this affair would warrant as cause for divorce.



And in Japan, and affair isn't a cause for divorce. Affairs are considered very common, an almost normal, atleast on the male side. Most couples do not divorce because of it because there is never any fear that the husband will leave the wife for the mistress. In reality, he can't. The wife has complete control of his finances so even if he wants to buy the mistress a present he has to get the money from his wife first. So the "emotional damage" from an affair as the wife is claiming would not be enough for her to file damages against the husband. In all likelihood though both the husband and Kago will pay her just to shut her up.



I don't see this as being that damaging for Kago, nor as proving she is some dispicable person for seeing a married man. It's certainly not good for her image but it proves how much popularity she does still have that the wife is putting her husbands affair into so public a place by reporting it to the media. If Kago had already completely ruined herself the wife would have no reason to throw her name around.

[Kago]

Your line of reasoning is so convoluted that I don't even know where to start.

[princemononoke]

[quote name='alita87' post='61853' date='Mar 9 2009, 01:50 PM']stuffs[/quote]



I find it kinda scary how you take general trends you've studied/heard about Japan, and apply them with no apologies to specific cases of people whose personal lives you know so little about. Try looking at this scandal as an individual case within Japanese culture, rather than an absolute representation of it.

[Kago]

It would also help if you didn't herald japanese culture as the end all be all of everything with the "Cheating is okay in Japan god guys what the hell is the big deal." sentiment.

[Ap2000]

[quote name='alita87' post='61853' date='Mar 9 2009, 05:50 AM']Someone mentioned it in the comments over at H!O (which are mostly idiotic comments from people who know nothing about divorce in Japan) but divorce in Japan does not happen overnight. It can take 2+ years to finalize and is very hard to do. And after the divorce is finished the father does not usually see the children, the woman always gets sole custody. But the woman also gets tons of government money for each child, all utility bills paid, most of the rent paid, and school paid for her children. So it is becoming more common in Japan that a woman wants a divorce just because it makes life pretty easy afterwards if you can handle the stigma of having been through a divorce.



So this divorce did not happen because of Kago in any way shape or form. They have been seeing each other, if indeed they have since these are tabloids and rumors still, for too short of a time. The wife is just putting things out like that because she wants to give Kago and her husband bad press, even though she knows the paperwork has been in processing for much longer than this affair would warrant as cause for divorce.



And in Japan, and affair isn't a cause for divorce. Affairs are considered very common, an almost normal, atleast on the male side. Most couples do not divorce because of it because there is never any fear that the husband will leave the wife for the mistress. In reality, he can't. The wife has complete control of his finances so even if he wants to buy the mistress a present he has to get the money from his wife first. So the "emotional damage" from an affair as the wife is claiming would not be enough for her to file damages against the husband. In all likelihood though both the husband and Kago will pay her just to shut her up.



I don't see this as being that damaging for Kago, nor as proving she is some dispicable person for seeing a married man. It's certainly not good for her image but it proves how much popularity she does still have that the wife is putting her husbands affair into so public a place by reporting it to the media. If Kago had already completely ruined herself the wife would have no reason to throw her name around.[/quote]



you shouldn't apply theories about "common" people not with stars/rich/the like ones.

[stoveroad]

Dear Ai Kago,



We love you, but stop being such a dumb bimbo.



Sincerely,

Your Fans



Post Script: Try not to get pregnant.

[alita87]

But it's not just some convoluted line of reasoning, it's just culturally true. Whatever you may think of cheating, it is culturally accepted here. (I personally don't find it something that should instantly mean divorce and never loving the person again either, but that's just my view as someone who doesn't see themselves being able to be with one person forever anyways.) That's not hailing Japan as the end all be all, it's stating a fact. It's not to say that wives won't feel shamed or hate that they are being cheated on but it is not likely to lead to divorce. And it's not just coming from one conversation, we read tons of studies and published reports about marriage, divorce and the reasons for it back when I was in school.



Regardless that he is an actor and Kago is famous in a very "special" way recently, divorce still cannot be processed overnight like the wife is claiming it must've been if that was the reason for the divorce, since Kago and this man's relationship could have dated at the earliest back to maybe summer. Paperwork and legal processing do not go that quick in Japan because there are too many loopholes and other forms you have to fill to get things done.



I'm sorry if my reasoning always seems to piss people off, but this will be the way most people here are going to look at it too. Yes it's, hey Kago you're being pretty stupid doing anything that could even remotely be considered a scandal if you want to get back on top. But it's not, hey you homewrecker how dare you steal away people's husbands and fathers.



I'm thinking 33 is better, agewise atleast, than the other men she's been caught with. Wasn't the guy she went to the onsen with later 30s?

[JPope]

This is awesome shit. Really. She's now my favorite ex-Musume, for no other reason than the train-wreck aspect of her personal life. I propose a new group, White Trash Musume, with Kago as the leader. Fuckin' sweet!