"They had a big fight in Indonesia and it looks like they were still at odds
when it came time to fly home," a reporter for a women's magazine tells
Nashimoto in Shukan Asahi.
While the veteran entertainment reporter agrees the media influenced the
flights, it also appears to have influenced the fight between Shaku and Nojiri.
"Shaku's handlers suspected Nojiri of leaking their whereabouts to the media,"
the women's magazine reporter says. "That made them change hotels three times
during the trip." Nashimoto notes that Nojiri is becoming notorious for his
links to leaks. In November last year, the weekly magazine Friday caught a
superb snapshot of him while on a secret date with Emi Takeuchi, an announcer
at TV Asahi.
"It was such a fantastic picture of the couple that it was too good to be
true," the women's magazine reporter tells Shukan Asahi. "It was almost as
though the photographer had been given permission to take the shot."
Perhaps they had been?c Nojiri and the Hills Tribe -- the name given to the
rich, young and mostly IT company-running guys who live in the posh Roppongi
Hills complex -- were also caught on camera by Friday's photographers following
an all-night karaoke bender not too long ago. Friday's snappers have also
caught Nojiri's buddies like Makoto Fujita, the IT company president who has
left such starlets in his wake as Fuji TV announcer Aya Takashima and actress
Megumi Okina.
Nojiri is known for hosting the crock-pot matchmaking parties that made
Roppongi Hills the place for Japan's trendsetting businessmen and cutest
starlets to hang out at. But he's also been in plenty of trouble, according to
Nashimoto.
"Nojiri looks like he was trying to become some young starlet's patron. He
drags out young idols to his place to talk to them about their careers, which
starts big spats with the performers' talent agencies," a veteran IT industry
insider tells Nashimoto at Shukan Asahi. "Frankly, I've had enough of getting
him out of trouble."
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