NGT48’s Kato Minami demoted after Instagram post, NGT48 members now banned from using SNS

NGT48 Team NIII Kato Minami is in hot water.

While doing her nails, she took a photo of the news about Yamaguchi Maho’s graduation and posted:

“I want to change the channel, but I’m doing my nails”.

NGT48 announced that “NGT48 will stop all operation of SNS for all members of NGT48.  There will be a ban on all SNS”.

Kato responded, “I deeply apologize that I offended many people by my post.  I feel sad when I saw the news at the nail salon and I wanted to share my feelings only within my friends only.  I made a mistake and made the post public to everyone. I did not consider people’s feelings, though it was meant to be seen by only close friends.  I will look at myself again and reflect on what I have done and from now on, I would like to act responsibly in everything.  My apology”.

Kato admitted that she has a private account aside her public account and it is possible she forgot to switch profile accounts when she made the post and posted to the public Instagram.

But because of the inappropriate post, as of May 21st, NGT48’s Team NIII Captain has now been demoted back to a trainee.

This is a fall from grace for the NGT48 member known to many as “KatoMina”, who was so popular in 2017, that she was the first and only member of NGT48’s first generation to rank in teh AKB48 General Election and was considered as one of the Ace members of NGT48.

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