Yuko Aoki

TBS announcer Yuko Aoki says 'I won't quit'

Monday 04th August, 02:31 PM JST

TOKYO —

TBS announcer Yuko Aoki, 25, on Sunday said she will not quit her TBS variety program “Sunday Japon” following tabloid coverage about her relationship with another married TV producer last week.

“It’s true that I have discussed my career with my boss,” Aoki said on the program. “But I have made the decision to continue to work as an announcer for TBS.”

In 2006, Aoki was reported to be living together with a married TV producer. The weekly magazine Shukan Gendai reported her relationship with another married TV producer in the latest issue published on Monday. But Aoki declined to discuss any details about the story in Sunday.

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martyman at 06:50 PM JST - 4th August

Why should she quit? Public humiliation, cultural taboo, peer pressure? If she was living with them, would'nt that mean he was seperated (leagally) from his family? Or did he have a secret aprtment he would go to a few days out of the week to be with Yuko Aoki and the rest of the week with his wife? Either way, as an single adult, she has her choice of who she would be with. Words of wisdom, "it takes two to tango."
Both should quit or both should stay. Their choice, not the medias.
moonbeams at 06:56 PM JST - 4th August

Good for her.

Work and personal lives should be separated and respected.
Beelzebub at 07:45 PM JST - 4th August

Yawn. Another "bijin-ana" scandal? We're running at the rate of about one a month now.
Mizuame at 07:46 PM JST - 4th August

“It’s true that I have discussed my career with my boss,” Aoki said

In Hollywood they call it the "Casting Couch". Aoki obviously knows how to play the game.
ExPrinceska at 07:56 PM JST - 4th August

she has a tendency to choose partners according to who can help her career...very career oriented girl, so I suppose she won't quit because she has done what she did to promote her career.
bamboohat at 08:13 PM JST - 4th August

Wow, somebody I've never heard of from a show I've never heard of (belonging to a genre that is totally unappealing to me)is sleeping with another person I've never heard of.

I guess the bottom line is, will the viewers benefit from her not quitting? will her staying on outweight whatever outrage is brought on by her scandal? I believe it will. Ganbare bijin-sama!
zurcronium at 08:55 PM JST - 4th August

note to self, resume out for TV producer job . . .
Sarge at 10:08 PM JST - 4th August

zurc - Rotsa ruck!
usaexpat at 12:17 AM JST - 5th August

Good for her, the hypocrisy in Japan over celebrities caught having affairs and then having to quit and appologize is a joke. How many salarimen are banging their secreties at some love ho at this very moment?
BlackTieAffair at 12:17 AM JST - 5th August

Does it really matter.......? Everyone has something in the closet.
Bogi at 10:38 AM JST - 5th August

What a country! Married men can sleep with single women and it's the women who take the heat. God I love being a MAN IN JAPAN!
TRUTHxHURTS at 12:51 PM JST - 6th August

two words

" who cares " who cares
dennis0bauer at 03:16 PM JST - 6th August

Bogi not only with single women, Men in Japan get away with a lot. why should women not do the same.

But Japan is still avery chauvinistic society
Fovonfire at 10:17 PM JST - 6th August

not very beautuiful...
Zolt at 12:37 PM JST - 8th August

I guess the discussion with her boss was about how much extra audience this free publicity was going to bring.

Anyway it's a shame on so many levels that the guy is getting away with it without even his name published! A 40-something, married old schmunk has nothing to do near a cutie like this!