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Yamamoto still has not apologized for sexually victimizing the plaintiff.

The suit they’re pursuing is to shed light on Yamamoto’s crimes and prevent such cases of sexual misconduct by teachers from happening again.

They never said they “Cannot forgive Shogakukan” as stated in the title of the Bunshun article, (released March 6th) at the time they told Bunshun they feel “helpless” not that they hate Shogakukan.

Shogakukan directors came to their lawyer’s office and apologized to the victim for their handling of the matter via a phone call on March 6th.

They were able to have a civil conversation with Shogakukan.

They do not want MangaOne to dissolve, nor do they want manga artists associated with the app to suffer. They too enjoy Shogakukan manga and have been encouraged by manga.

They don’t want to see any further flaming of Shogakukan and preemptively state they do not want the Bushun to be criticized either.

Here is a direct link to her full statement in JP. I want to point out an addendum from the law firm at the end of the statement notes that there were multiple victims before her.

Of course there are many/varied reactions, but I'll highlight that many tweets have praised her courage for speaking up, the kindness and dignity of her statement, assuring that the criticism faced by Shogakukan is from their own mishandling, and any decisions made by mangaka and readers are of their own accord to express their protest of sexual assault in the industry, not her fault. Some have expressed concern that this kindness might be exploited for Shogakukan and its supporters to move forward without reflection or change. It's also been pointed out that neither the rapist, the involved editor, nor the Manga ONE editorial department have apologized.

Some tweet reactions under cut:

Shogakukan made a statement that this incident did not involve the whole company. They said they've started a 3rd-party investigation, and AFAIK there haven't been updates since then. (Source, with an English translation and link to the original statement)

From what I've seen, critical reactions are pointing out that either the concealment did reach to Shogakukan's highest levels, OR Shogakukan is so clueless that they weren't aware one of their departments was scrubbing the record of a child rapist.