Another day, another celebrity adultery scandal. Sometimes it feels like this.
But there’s something a little different about the latest (minor) scandal to hit the news.
Yukie Joji is herself a reporter. The 48-year-old is currently seen doing live reports twice weekly for a show broadcast on CBC and TBS.
Since its employees apparently have little important journalism to do, scoop-hunters from Flash trailed Joji as she enjoyed a date in Yokohama’s Chinatown in mid-April. She and a man lined up to enter a popular restaurant. They allegedly left the restaurant after their meal and held hands as they walked to a nearby hotel. Joji checked in at the front desk and they then went upstairs to their room.
Six and a half hours later, they returned and checked out. They then held hands as they walked back to the station, where they took a train together. The man, who is not named in media reports, got off the train at another station and waved at Joji until the train departed.
Well, we think this sounds quite sweet and romantic, especially for a lady pushing fifty — a time at which romance and sex are sadly all too often in short supply. Older woman, too, have sexual needs (as Yuki Saito’s affair amply demonstrated), and yet the daily grind of work and family frequently conspire to leave them unfulfilled.
Talking of family, Joji is married and gave birth to a child in 2001. The other man is a director and also married with a child. The affair is alleged to have continued for seven years.
Ironically, as many have noted, Joji was a reporter who has covered past celebrity adultery scandals, such as Ryuji Harada in 2019 and Ken “toilet sex” Watabe in 2020.
Here is a pic of Joji (on the right) at the Harada press conference.
The questions she asked him at the press conference have now come back to haunt her.
“Are you thinking of divorce?” “Were you attracted to your partner?”
