[floatr][/floatr]MDN: Sexagenarian soothsayer seething over unforeseen exposure
Kazuko Hosoki, a 68-year-old ubiquitous presence on Japanese TV screens, is apparently seething over a series of articles run by lowbrow men's weekly Shukan Gendai...Gendai's series draws on accounts of less savory aspects of Hosoki's career, including stints as a hostess and mama-san...Josei Seven says Hosoki decided to sue because Gendai, in one of its articles...accused the ornery oracle of having cozy ties with the yakuza...Writer Atsushi Mizoguchi says in the Gendai story that he was approached by a gang boss who...asked him to stop publication of another story damning of the acerbic auger...more...
I thought the name Atsushi Mizoguchi rang a bell. This story (Japanese) tells of how his salaryman son was attacked and stabbed in the leg by two Yamaguchigumi thugs back in January.