Sakanaction announces partial postponement of tour after guitarist Iwadera Motoharu was outed for adultery

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Sakanaction announced a partial postponement of tour after guitarist Iwadera Motoharu (41) was outed for adultery. A total of four performances from the national tour scheduled for this month in Osaka and Kyoto will be postponed.

On June 1st, Bunshun Online reported Iwadera’s affair and that same night, the guitarist apologized on his website writing, “I apologize from the bottom of my heart that my unethical behavior has caused unpleasant feelings to everyone who saw the article, and that it has caused a sensation in the world”.

In addition, vocalist Yamaguchi Ichiro (41) revealed on his Twitter back in May that he was in poor physical condition and that he had gone to the hospital for shingles.

In 2016, Sakanaction won the “Best Music Award” at the 39th annual Nihon Academy.