Weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun had known about its partially incorrect reporting over the alleged trouble between TV personality Masahiro Nakai and a woman soon after its Dec. 26 issue was published, but issued a correction only after the publication was criticized by former Osaka Gov. Toru Hashimoto, who is now a well-known TV commentator.
On Thursday, Shukan Bunshun published an editorial from the editor-in-chief apologizing for the inaccuracy and that it had reported follow-up stories based on new findings that the woman was invited by Nakai and not the Fuji TV executive.
¡°In response to Mr. Hashimoto¡¯s suggestion that ¡®it is dishonest to overwrite an error so casually,¡¯ we have added a correction note to the article in question on the online version of Shukan Bunshun,¡± the letter stated.
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