On September 30th, STV Sapporo Television Broadcasting announced on its official website that a program production staff member of its group company Sapporo Video Production had been arrested and apologized.

The company released a statement entitled “About the arrest of our program production staff,” and stated, “On the morning of Monday, September 30, 2024, the suspect Tomoyuki Kitagawa (48), a program production staff member of our group company Sapporo Video Production Co., Ltd., was arrested. (years old) was arrested on suspicion of attempted home invasion.

He continued, “As a news organization, we are in a position where we are required to have a particularly high level of social responsibility, but it is extremely regrettable that our program production staff caused this situation. We sincerely apologize for the great inconvenience caused.”

Regarding future actions, the company stated, “We will confirm the facts and take strict action,” adding, “In the future, we will thoroughly educate our employees and staff to ensure that something like this never happens again.” I will do my best to recover.”

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