"He comes forward to admit his actions after Japanese public broadcaster NHK aired a documentary featuring Samuragochi touring the tsunami-affected Tohuku region of Japan, meeting with survivors and shown composing a requiem for a little girl who lost her mother. NHK has since come forward to offer an apology for airing the documentary."
Nothing about that whole thing makes sense. Unless NHK just felt bad that they helped to bring a fraud to justice...? Or did they not? Seriously, this doesn't make sense!
pokoko said: The music is still the same, which is the important thing.
Funny timing for me. I was watching an episode of a mystery j-drama two days ago about a Music/Mathematics professor who was stealing the work of his junior, a promising young pianist/mathematician, and publishing it as his own.
This, however, is probably about the fact that works created by someone famous sell more and receive more critical acclaim. If you think about it, that's the real crime.
The music which Japan will now erase from history. Expect any re-releases of any TV show/film/game he was attached to being released with a new score from this point on.
"He comes forward to admit his actions after Japanese public broadcaster NHK aired a documentary featuring Samuragochi touring the tsunami-affected Tohuku region of Japan, meeting with survivors and shown composing a requiem for a little girl who lost her mother. NHK has since come forward to offer an apology for airing the documentary."
Nothing about that whole thing makes sense. Unless NHK just felt bad that they helped to bring a fraud to justice...? Or did they not? Seriously, this doesn't make sense!
It's because it's Japan. It doesn't matter if it's not their fault.
It's like if you're a manager in Japan and someone under you does something wrong, you're the one who has to apologize and perhaps even resign. It's crazy to us but it's how they do things.
That being said, I would love it if American news channels had to do this. I remember a guy on Fox News taking footage from another event that had a ton of people show up and using it for their own much smaller event. Jon Stewart called him out on it and the guy ended up giving a half-hearted, sarcastic retraction. That wouldn't fly in Japan.