Morning Musume ’22 leader Fukumura Mizuki addresses those who criticized her blog post about Kaga Kaede’s graduation

Morning Musume ’22 leader Fukumura Mizuki addressed those who criticized her blog post about Kaga Kaede’s graduation.

Morning Musume. ’22 Kaga Kaede’s graduation concert was held at Nippon Budokan on Saturday, December 10th.

Fukumura congratulated her graduation on her blog, saying, “Kaga, congratulations on your graduation” and looked back on the past and how their six months together was a short time.

But some netizens who read that, felt she was making a sarcastic remark about Kaga from the standpoint of Fukumura, who has been with the company for over 10 years.

In a blog that was updated in response to this backlash, Fukumura said that it was hard to say goodbye to her friends, and that “I expressed the loneliness of not being able to work together anymore, and expressed that 6 years is short”, explain the true meaning of what she meant. She apologized and wrote, “If I made you think that I was a heartless person, I apologize for not being able to express myself well because of my bad expression”. She continued, “I never wanted to hurt someone. No.”

The blog received a lot of response, and while there were defensive voices on Twitter saying that there was no need to apologize, there were also harsh voices saying that she was devoted to defending herself. In addition, comments have been posted that point out that updating the blog at this time is a bad move, as it will lead to prolonging the uproar as a result.

 

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