I will not comment on the case of Mr. Matsumoto's case itself.
Because I remember the "Los scandal" of 1981.
This case was then and still is too complicated for me to understand.
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I was a teenager then and did not pay much attention to the case.
However, I remember how heated the public and the media were.
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I still remember it clearly,
The weekly magazine, which had called the person out in the case and treated him like a criminal, called him "Mr." after his acquittal by the Supreme Court and published an article that was "sympathetic" to "what he experimented treatment as a criminal."
It was a weekly magazine that included the word "women."
I remember cursing the weekly magazine for its "ignorance," "incompetence," "irresponsibility," "illiteracy," "unbelief," "lack of character," "shamelessness," and a host of other abuses that would have been inadequate.
Even now, I can't erase that feeling when I see people reading those weekly magazines (Omitted below).
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As a writer, I am also subject to criticism and condemnation.
I don't blame them; however, I try not to be abused as "shameless.
If I write something wrong and am convinced it is wrong, I can say, 'I was wrong.?I am sorry,' and I will continue to do so.
It is relatively unimportant to me whether "I" am right or not.
I am a researcher & engineer trained to change my mind within 3 seconds if I am convinced I am wrong.