Ayumi Hamasaki / Avex Trax investigated by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Dept.
 

Update: From TeamAyu:

"According to some news organizations, there was an recent event which included Ayumi Hamasaki in a negative way. However, Ayumi Hamasaki was not involved in the planning and managment of the event, and will not be prosecuted for the incident. We regret the concern caused to all the fans of Ayumi Hamasaki, we urge you to understand this situation."
- The office of Team Ayu.


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Hamasaki Ayumi and Avex face investigation by Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
Fri, May 22, 2009 (5:08am EDT)

On April 7, 2009, singer Ayumi Hamasaki (30) used the streets outside Shibuya '109' without permission for her book-release event, surrounding the Shibuya Station area in Tokyo.

At this event, the book "Ayu Diary of DEJIDEJI 2000-2009A" (Kodansha) was promoted. To commemorate the launch of the book in front of the "109" building, without notice, Hamasaki appeared in front of nearly 8,000 people and fans making a huge fuss.

Also, shortly before the book lanch event, Hamasaki visited TSUTAYA, HMV, Tower Records and other large CD stores in the area. In a surprise of this event, crazy energized fans were going to chase Hamasaki from shop to shop, which led to wild conditions in the streets.

According to Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Hamasaki did not get permission to use the roads in the area, and is now being investigated for violating the Road Traffic Law in the metropol. According to Japanese law, the penalty for this type of offenses are fines and in the worst case, prison sentence.

Passages of buses and other modes of transport had to stop for a time. Fans tear down the stage, the stage and the sidewalk into the fence have been knocked down, and the scene was very chaotic and frightening for random bypassers, including several children.

As a result of this, Hamasaki was asked by reporters from the magazine "FRIDAY" in connection with the accusation. Sunday, she attended a event held in Tokyo, but was surprised by the prosecution against her. "I thought this issue was cleared in advance", while she smiles watching her staff. "In Shibuya? Heehaw. I should be allowed to move where I want, without having to submit an application specifically for this," she said, smiling.
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Ayu didn't obtain permission for April PR event
Fri, May 22, 2009 (4:21am EDT)

Police are currently investigating a publicity event held last month by pop star Ayumi Hamasaki. She made surprise appearances in Shibuya to promote the release of her new book and new album, and it appears that her manager did not obtain the necessary permit for the event. Now, the case seems to be headed to the prosecutor's office.

The PR event happened on April 7, at the front of the 109 building in Shibuya. Roughly 8,000 people gathered to see Hamasaki, resulting in temporarily blocked roads. Before her appearance at 109, she also paid unexpected visits to a few major record shops, going from store to store by car while some fans followed her on foot.

Even though the events officially took place in stores, police determined that the scope of the event required a permit for the use of the roads. Because a permit was never obtained, authorities revealed on Thursday that they plan to send the matter to the prosecutor's office in order to further question the manager and Hamasaki herself.

Singer Hiromi Go, attending his own event in Tokyo on Thursday, offered a sympathetic comment about the case. Ten years ago, he was similarly prosecuted for holding an unannounced performance in Shibuya.


Source: Ayu.no | Brief translation: Anime1 @ AyuFansClubs

this is ridiculous...tsk tsk,

and i totally agree with

Do you have a source? This sounds kind of ... weird.

omg lol.
Ayu you're a bad girl but there's a source?

Yes, I added the sources ^^

WOWO. u serious? never knew japan was THAT strict...are they gunna fine her?..()_()

:laugh i like how she said that while smiling

weew. it's terrible.
how come, Avex?

Ummm...Wow...
I don't know what to say.

Well I don't think it was supposed to get THAT crazy, I don't see why she needs permission just to walk around...

From what I saw there weren't that many cars to be interrupted and it was the fans blocking the roads anyway, not Ayu standing in the middle of them just to annoy the drivers :shakehead

They'll probably fine Avex but it will also help sell the book too! I think Avex will get their money's worth :yes

at least all human have same right, no matter she is artist LOL

I think it's rather strange - she can walk everywhere where it is allowed. Problems with traffic and the flooded crow are problems of the local authorities that didn't pay enought attention to the event.

That's just crazy. I'm sure everything will turn out fine, though.

i think that the police do have a case for saying that the event should have been cleared a head to time. you can't have citizens, no matter who they are, obstructing traffic without prior permission.

i don't, however, agree with the charges of submitting applications for personal movement. if people choose to follow her around and obstruct traffic, the onus falls onto those individuals, not the person they happen to be following.

Its sad that Ayu cant walk around like she want were she want but we also need to put ourselves on the polices shoes. I love her with all my heart but look at it this way. When she appears in event as big as the book realease was and she doesnt anoucces herself the police is not ready for the flood of fans that cover the streets. As a result fans could get hurt in an attemp to see Ayu. The police not being anouced of the event is not ready and doesnt have any security messures for the people there. For example a street overly filled by fans pushing one another to get a glimps of Ayu could end up in fans falling and getting hurt,cars passing could hurt someone (if this was anocced the police would have block the streets preventing cars to pass), without the police being ready for it a feud could come up out of nowhere among fans and so on.

On another point of view the police also needs to think: whats done its done. They cant punish Ayu for something that already happend. They should just leave her alone with a simple warning and tell her that she needs to anouce events as big as book or cds promotional events to the police.

I feel sorry for Ayu. Being famous sound like a lot of trouble sometimes.:(

So Japan wants to persecute one of one of its only significant resources :D Shame on them...

Oh how stupid! Get over it, Japan! YOU created her to be the huge star that she is!

This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard!!
They really don't have anything better to do, than fine famous people, because their fans get too rowdy!???:no

Omg that is so silly!! She should be allowed to go wherever she wants, not ask for permission!
And why are they bringing this up now? It all went well didn't it? She should just be told for future events etc.. jeez

The event itself (with the tent set up and everything) was ok right? Ayu got in crap coz she showed up and walked around? wow...

OMG! wow so weird...
thanks 0_0

Uh-oh...

This seems to be bad here...

LOL that's stupid

The government is a little out of control on this one. I think that Shibuya is a crowded place anyway, and a person should be allowed to walk on the streets without permission like she said. And if the fans don't have enough sense to stay out of the road, maybe they should be hit. (Okay, that was a little extreme. They should just be careful.)

I think Ayu handled it well and hopefully this incident will raise album and book sales!

Just shows people will do what they can to get money, whether it be the police or not.

I love Ayumi!!! ridiculous case, imo. love how she talks like a condescending "beach"! i love it!!!! I love the "i should be able to walk freely whenever I want, *smile*" i love how she keeps a beachy composure... awesome!!! true diva!

omg getting fined for walking omg
i wish it could be like that for me

hey you walk outside fine for 20,000USD eheh

^ I totally agree, what's wrong with walking along the pavements? It's just pure rotten luck that the vehicles were passing by that area when she turned up. LOL!

wow...hope everything will be alright

exactly

but i kinda agree with the police because ayu is a super star
god forbid she could have gotten hurt by someone

i dont think the phrase should be "walking without permission" but
walking "carelessly"

Haha what a load of feces
They just want money from Ayumi
cos they have nowhere else to take it from

There seems to be a major flaw in planning...

THIS IS SO DAM* RIDICULOUS!!! i mean i really cant believe what they are doing...i just hope it blows of soon ...well it should since it is RIDICULOUS!LOL

This is kinda sad...flaw in planning people....

they are trying to "milk" ayu and avex

ah c'mon! that is ridiculous! and investigation...
at an event like that she should have the right of walking where she wants

that just sucks for her :(

Why now? I find it really odd all this time after the event she's being "investigated".

lol Ayu's being pretty cool about it, I mean she should be able to go where she wants even if a huge crowd follows >_<

Nice to see she's as popular as ever <3

This is dumb. It was a month ago! Why now?

How lame.

never believe anything from Friday...is like appledaily(HK) but a Japan version..
pure rubbish

this is pure craziness!! and yet again, the news with some crap...
for God's sake, ayu is freakin' right, she should be able to walk anywhere she damn pleases...that includes water XD

Wasn't this Kodansha's event for the book? Since they're the ones who published it... So they should be responsible for clearing the event and making sure proper permission was set in place so the police can take proper measures to secure the public. Just because Ayu happened to show up doesn't mean anything, the event was for her not by her. She should be able to go where she wants. I would love the Japanese Metropolitan police to get a glimpse of what goes on in Hollywood and then complain.

This is so stupid!
Ayu's completely innocent. She was using the paved area in front of Shibuya 109, not the road!!! Ayu can't help if people stand in the road. I seriously want to write a letter to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police to protest! But I don't think it would even make a difference.

Anyways, I can't believe this. I hate cops.

No no no~

I think it's really silly... like just because she's a celebrity... I mean applying for permission to walk around her country... that's really wtf. She should have equal freedom as any other Japanese.

But again, this kinda shows the impact Ayu still has... I mean she has enough impact to get 8000 fans to create chaos in the streets of Shibuya lol.

Let's hope nothing too serious happens ^^

P.S: Loved how they were playing Days in the 2nd video.

She wasn't "just walking". :rolleyes She was promoting herself and her product. The police is just doing their job:yes ayu isn't really naive, she knows she's a star and that she might drive the public wild. Her excuse isn't really justifiable as she wasn't just "passing by" like a regular person.

wow was her reply kind of snotty, or maybe i misunderstood :dead2

this is pretty dumb tho

*sigh* they just want some mula. but yea her staff shouldve had this prepared. man these people, its not like anyone was ran over during her visit (cough-walmart)

^ Yes, that is right, but I can't help but feel that it's like just sloppy job by:

1) book's Publisher
2) avex.

For one avex SHOULD have informed the police that Ayu is making a surprise appearance so that they could path some barriers around the streets or something.

Moreover, the book's publisher should also have set fences/barriers around whatever area the promotion is going on.

I doubt Ayu would be that free to plan everything as usual... avex can be so sloppy sometimes.

Yeah it sucks for her, but she's a major celebrity. People get a little nuts around celebrities. She could have caused a riot and people could have gotten hurt. She could have gotten hurt. She should be allowed to walk around if she wants to but she has such a reaction on people. Then add in to the mix that she wasn't just walking around for pleasure but for business and it gets messy.

Yeah, but who knows, someone could have suffered an accident or the traffic jam could have made it impossible for ambulances passing by to go further. The fact "nothing happned" (as far as we know) doesn't mean you can go around doing such things that can put others under risk. that's like shooting with a gun on the street and saying you aren't guilty because nobody got hurt by the bullets (of course this is a stretch and more serious/threatening example, but yunno..) This was really a irresponsible move.

hmmm you have a really good point!

then again this is avex we are talking about, when do they ever care about anyone other than their company? :roflmao

Ayu obviously should have let the city know beforehand about this event. Who knows how much traffic was held up and you never know. People could have been ran over, emergency cars would have needed to get somewhere but were blocked, and etc. Although this is a bit extreme on how the police are like, investigating her. Ayu just needs to be more careful with her choices next time.

Wow, this is nuts. I disappear from AHS for a little while (buried in exams) and when I come back, I see Ayu is in trouble with the law!

Well I don't think this should come as a shock--Ayu is a huge star and obviously she is going to cause a lot of fuss. I realize Japan is different but PRISON TIME seems a bit harsh O_O Avex has crazy lawyers though, so I'm sure this will all blow over (with a settlement fee probably).

Hopefully Ayu and/or Avex and/or Kodansha just pay fines for this, not prison time...

this is seriously stupid. if you really want to blame someone for that traffic jam, you need to blame the organizer or whoever was in charge of the event. Cause it's their job to ensure that everything is properly prepared & runs smoothly. Does ayu really have to double check with her security team and the police to make sure that there aren't any incidents everytime she goes outside to do something? ayu has people to handle this for her.

it's not like she went deliberatly out of her way to cause a problem by setting up a signing booth in the middle of the street.

Lol I guess with the recession they are trying to squeeze in as many fines as possible

:rolleyes all Japanese people care about is their damn roads.

Who cares...that was like a million years ago already...

god...I knew we were never going to see the end of that awful outfit :shakeshead

It was a really snotty reply from her, though she is right...

I think it's hilarious that they file against Ayu when...she most likely had absolutely no idea about any street situation...she expects it to be taken care of before hand by her staff and event coordinators.

So now it's on their heads...not hers.

:yes


:yes


I find this curious because i always thought ayu was very aware that her actions creates significant consequences around Japan. I understand that she had no intention of causing trouble and she should be able to walk like normal person on the streets, however, ayu is an "idoru" so her mere presence can cause a lot of movement (worst case "riot") and normal rules cannot apply to her:(. I don't think anything is going to happen to Ayu, she will manage to get out of the problems... not so sure about Avex.

I guess this is the part that makes her career sucks; she can't just go out without making people crazy :dead2 (nothing is perfect...) i feel sorry for her this time :(

^I think she understands that...it's just not her responsibility to take care of crowd control at an event that is not hosted by her directly.

That's the only reason it's ridiculous to persecute her. imo she doesn't need an excuse...there really isn't one, and she shouldn't come up with one either lol...

It was just bad planning by probably a few different people...I hope no one loses their job...but most likely I see a few people getting fired over this lol

jail sentence? no way~~~

that's just ridiculous. setting up the stage without a permit might be a problem, but the walking around part being a problem was invented by people who felt that their pathetic lives were unjustly inconvenienced.

ROFL. This news is pretty funny actually.
Let's face it, if Ayu gets jail time, it'll be a couple of weeks max. Jail will do her no harm anyway, she can write a few lyrics. xD
Actually, let's face it further, Ayu isn't gonna go to jail, she's gonna get a slap on the wrist.

This isn't Ayu's fault anyway, it's her book publishers', why should she have to do all the paperwork for an event she isn't personally hosting?

I also can't imagine Ayumi talking like that to the press, even if she is 100% right. XD

So Ayu needs a permit when she's visiting an EVENT set up by Deji? Wow, if all celebrities who went to the oscars/grammys need a permit to go to a publicized event. Ayu is not at any fault and what she said was completely correct in line. It's not like it's her event. -__- She was only there to support it...

It's not even Avex's fault, it should be only Deji unless Deji is a branch of Avex. For making such an event that cause traffic incidents.

:laugh let's have ayu go to jail so she can rediscover her lyricist abilities lol

Ayu's totally gonna diva-fy the jailhouse if she does go.

Pink everywhere and dog houses.

YEA! She can write great songs such as:
CELL
CagE
SHOWER or NOT

:)

LOL

I can't wait to hear them!

Hopefully she wont get in much trouble.

LOL This is hilarious! so as the news :P

I don't think that it is directly her fault though. Basically Kodansha or avex is the one who should be responsible for the whole incident.
It was such a big event. How come no police knew that ayu was going to be there?
Someone (who organised the event) is going to be in trouble~

THANK YOU. I mean we love ayu but this is pretty much the truth. She knew what she was getting into, and her excuse doesn't justify anything. People could've gotten hurt because she did this. Her response to the topic was very rude in my opinion. :( very dissapointed.

lol, i'd like to see a video of her saying that statement while smiling!

I hate to say that Ayu saying, "I should be able to walk wherever I like," comes off as not only a bit snotty, but also irresponsible. Shibuya 109 SHOULD have been told about the event ahead of time for multiple reasons. They NEED to know. You can't just have a celebrity have an event in a extremely populated area and not tell anyone. But that's not Ayu's fault; it's her PR manager. :/

OMG! This is shocking...

I think there are pros and cons of this event. It's true that Ayu has the right to go wherever she wants to go but because Ayu is really a big star, avex should have informed some police or traffic regulators so that the mob can be controlled. But really why does Japan ridiculously strict about that? hMmM... No one expected that the 8,000 people will drool over ayu...

thanks for the news!!

They make her seem so evil, and stupid. =S

Yeah shes a star and all but I really think the the book publishers should have get that permission. She was just a guest of honour or something? :P
And slo, I do think she should walk as she wants, but yes that is a bit hard in here case. Sadly for her.

But I was thinking, big stars cin Japan can walk around easier then in lets say in Hollywood. I remember when Ayu wrote that she was out running and there where this drunk guy screaming after her but nothing more then that. And my friend said that her friend saw Kame (KT) on the subway just like it was normal.

Anyways, offcourse this day was more special since she would promote the book and not was out from a walk... :P Maybe the police department just want some of Avex's money? XD

Hahaha!! lol This is super stupid, like that scandal with Kumi and those fluids. No... I just can't believe IT IS RIDICULOUS! Japanese people can't be like this, Japanese people are wiser!

LOl idiots!

About everyone saying about Ayu's statement. This is a GOSSIP MAGAZINE saying she said that.

Believe it when she says it on TV or in a PROPER newspaper, not a tabloid. :/

LOL

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker
She wasn't "just walking". She was promoting herself and her product. The police is just doing their job ayu isn't really naive, she knows she's a star and that she might drive the public wild. Her excuse isn't really justifiable as she wasn't just "passing by" like a regular person.

ayumix quote :

THANK YOU. I mean we love ayu but this is pretty much the truth. She knew what she was getting into, and her excuse doesn't justify anything. People could've gotten hurt because she did this. Her response to the topic was very rude in my opinion. very dissapointed.

i totally agree +its not like she was just walking . she went their in a commercial prupose to sell her book.even if she wanted to keep it as a surpised she could have still ask permission to the police . its not because she is famous that she is on top of the law. THIS IS WRONG.8000 is an awfull lot ... imagine the people that needed to go to work on that day and arrived late because of her .:no

but of course because she is famous, no worry she wont go in prison , im sure they will ask her to pay find. that she will through and avex will try to keep it down and quiet as much as possible .

ayu and avex have organized concerts and events before.... its not like they never heard about that permission... i think they did just ignore it .

if i was working in the music industry i would make sure evry event i hold is legal .

i totally agre with all of you guys . her reply is totally rude, innapropriate and immature. she is acting like a diva. she need to act more responssibly.she needs to make excuses on tv to the people that were bother to this event.

We still don't know if ayu said this thing, and even if she said it.
If I would be in that position I might have been saying the same.

Why does she need to send application to be 2-3 minutes in a -public- place? :shrug

I doubt avex would really let her have any illegal events, it would make them a bad name so the whole thing sounds a bit strange (and that the "blame" is purely over ayu).

But she go to airports and they get filled with the crowd there is also could have happened some random thing to some random person and the rush of people could block anything that happen, passages inside the airport and such. Does she really need to give applications for every flight she has in japan or HK and Taiwan to have the airport for few minutes until she goes out?

I find it wierd that they post it a month afterwards.
Also if it was so illegal how come the police didn't do anything on the same day?

This is one of the most awkward cases I have heard of (on the newspaper behalf anyway).
If it would be so serious the police would do something about it on the same day and we wouldn't get newspaper reports about it a month after. How ridiculous.

When kuu had that scandal for example, the newspaper and news were filled on the same evening/a day after.

The police that "went" there to stop the event? :shrug
Since I don't remember there was a police, or that the police said anything about it.

I'm the only one who read this like "ok, one of u r going to lose ur job! =D"
xD

wow, that's stupid. She is free to go wherever she wants ... she is not a prisoner (yet XD)

heh... chance :D

there's a post about this on ONTD.. it's pretty hilarious but the people are being kinda mean

wew...what a huge fans...@_@
but...why japan police so slow for take the investigation?

That's what I want to know lol.
If there was a happening of something so illegal there then why they didn't arrive to the "crime scene"?

Or at least, why they started to "give a damn" a month afterwards?

The police that "went" there to stop the event? :shrug
Since I don't remember there was a police, or that the police said anything about it.[/QUOTE]

i never said the police went theer to stop teh event or anything. you need to read it clearly lol; im just saying her or staff should have send an application or a notice about this event.

it would have been betetr organized with the help of the police around it to control the circulation and the poeple . thats all im saying .

yes ayu goes to airport and there is fans waitting for her but not 800 . they are between 30 and a 100 maximum because when she goes to the airport its not announced +there is a lot of control in the airport and already police man there , so if there is any problem there is poeple to act in that case ( it was not the case in shibuya, people could have get hurt...)

about the police i wonder if they werent waitting to get enough complains or something to open an investigation, maybe thats why they open it so late .
that nobody will know untill they do an other official publication in the newspaper.

last time i checked she's a human being, who are allowed to walk anywhere they like. since when do they need permission? i mean even if there was permission, do they honestly think that people wouldn't have done the same thing?

and fyi, the police in Japan are basically USELESS. if you came here, you'd know. they don't interfere with anything! there's countless stories of the police watching men beat up women and not do anything because they don't want to interfere. the police even came to one of my friends parties to ask them to be quiet and asked for my friends ID's (who were drunk) and my friends said "no!!!" and the police just nodded and walked away and nothing ever happened again. seriously.

I dont really get it
why should she ask for permission...its the fans that's crazy chasing her around
anyway...prison sentence nono!

An application to be in a public place?
Even if she is famous she is still human being and a citizen and she has the right to go to everywhere she wants in public, Japan is still a democratic country.

Also they did announce that there will be event and even ayu mistakenly (since it needed to be a surprise) hint in her blog that she will be there and the post was up for few good hours, they could still do something about it before the event.

If there would be a word of the mixture strange and awkward, that's how the whole cases sounds, at least from the evidences that there are now and from how it looks.

That bad? XD
Though when tsuyoshi from SMAP got naked in that public park when they got the call they came fast to arrest him lol. Maybe it was that serious for them. =P

Hahahahahahahahahaha! I would love to see that face!!!!!!!

Seriously :laugh that was the first thing that crossed my mind when she said that...I didn't think anything else she said was that snotty...but that line is just damn lol

I think...I mean it's kinda sad...but I mean, any mistake a person makes that causes the police to investigate the company they work for...pretty sure they're gonna get fired lol

uh for the discussion above...dude it's like not ever her fault...she didn't know any different...that's why we can smell the firing of some PR people :innocent

^ When I step up to be her PR manager I wouldn't allow this to happen LOL.

She needs a permission to walk along the streets and visit some stores???

they're CRAZY!!!!

anyway Avex and Ayu are so rich that they're not going to have any problem paying a penal LOL

:roflmao i love that. diva ayu is awesome
lol and as if she'd REALLY go to jail. lots of haters are like "LOL LOCK HER UP I CANT W8 4 HER 2 ROT N JAIL *MOUTHBREATHE*"

This do not surprise me, you have to ask permission for special events in the streets, even to film 30 secs for a movie, you have to ask to each store the permission, and more ... I know it since from the backstage of a french movie filmed in Japan. When they didn't get the permission, they filmed the movie parts in the streets anyway, the quicker way possible, with two guys checking for police or such .... they had more than once to run away quickly not to be caught.

You can't disturb the peace of the streets like that in their opinion and have to ask permission. As ridiculous it may sound to us.

AYU SAN -----> i totally agree with you. movie , event or anything that can disturb the peace in the streets needs permission.

CREAYUMI ---->im not worried either this case will be closed with a lot of money on the table. avex have more than enought to keep any scandal of any of their artist quiet for a longgggggggg time .

i didnt say that ..... again you make me say what i didnt say LOLLLL the way you turn it is hilarious. its not like im going againt any body right lol
not an application to be in public place but an application to hold an event in public place .of course she can walk anywhere she wants , of course she can do watever she wants . i dont really cares where ayu walk lol all i meant is IF YOU ARE GOING TO HOLD AN EVENT AND YOU KNOW IT OR YOU COMPANY KNOWS IT ,shouldnt you have the decency to prevent someone that it might be crowded , or something might be going on ?
she wasnt walking , she had a full stage and she went to promote her book.
she always do those secret christmas concert in the street and her company always prevent autorities about it . so why this one was an exeption ?

thats the only thing i can't understand .

i remember in japan some schools are holding small shows in the street ( and even though they are not famous) they still have to ask permission for those kind of show .

i thnk its not even a problem of ayu being famous or not . its not even a problem with ayu . i just think if artist or anyobody have to hold any kind of event ( and they expect a lot of peoples ) than they should at leats make an announcement or prevent the police or not even the police but those circulation poeple to unclog the roads :yes

about smap . did he really got naked ??????? i never heard about that story ? what happen exactly ?it sounds pretty funny . he must have been more than drunk .

and ps : guys its not because people have different opinion that they are anti ayu or mean to ayu. we are all on ahs for the one and same reason . we are all fans of ayu just in different ways .

Its not ayus falt that happened, she's not the one running around stopping trafic and that. I don't agree with her needing permission to go to a public place. Maybe when ayu said she was going to the book launch then she said she wasn't maybe she had trouble getting permission or what not and said, stuff it im going :P

lol, I didn't say that you said it, I just sometimes add some things in context. XD
If there needed to be an application, as you said the company of the artist should send it, then why are they even accusing ayu and not avex trax? xD
Full stage and promoting in a public place is still the same as just walking in it, the people would come to see her even if she wouldn't stand the 2-3 minutes she stood there so there isn't really a difference, the people would still stop there.

I don't understand it too since everywhere she went, shooting PVs outdoors or in public places for example in Japan, in Shanghai, in New York, in Paris, in Los Angeles, in Hawaii wherever there were never problems with applications or things of that sort with ayu.

They did announce about that event and we even knew about it here on AHS before it occured of course.

xD Though it's a bit off topic Yes, tsuyoshi from SMAP got drunk and went to a public park where he started to dance, and get naked. Someone who saw him called the police and they went to arrest him and when they got him he asked them "what's wrong with being naked?" and a few hours later all of the japanese news websites, newspapers and TV reports in japan were filled about this incident.. All of the activities for him stopped for a week but after a week everything got back to normal with him.


I agree with the last part you wrote. =D