A former MP and YouTuber have been detained by Japanese policeman in connection with alleged threats against famous people.
GaaSyy, Yoshikazu Higashitani’s YouTube channel, is well-known for its celebrity gossip movies.
Two weeks after Tokyo police issued his arrest permit, he reportedly returned to Japan from the UAE, according to local media.
Between February and August of last year, he allegedly threatened to vilify three people: an artist, an investor, and a developer.
Additionally, he is thought to be interfering with the writer’s business operations.
Mr. Higashitani consistently disregarded requests to go back to Japan and deliberately answer questions from the police.
Since May, Tokyo authorities have been dispatching prosecutors to the UAE and pleading with the local authorities to deliver him to Japan.
After Tokyo police obtained his imprisonment subpoena in March, the foreign minister of Japan gave him the order to return his card, but Mr. Higashitani claimed he had misplaced it. His recommendation ran out the next month.
Mr. Higashitani was one of two representatives chosen from the Seijika-joshi-48 group, a single-issue party calling for changes to Japan’s open broadcaster.
The social internet character refused to leave his house in Dubai during his seven months in office and skipped every legislative session.
He reportedly declined to enter parliament at the time, according to Chinese media reports, out of fear of being detained for fraud allegations and defamation claims made by famous people.
Mr. Higashitani was required by lawmakers to travel to Tokyo and apologize in person in the chamber for his absence, but he was unable to attend the ministerial session.
Instead, he declared on his YouTube channel that a trip to Turkey was planned and that his salary would be donated to the Greek disaster relief effort.
The Senate was incensed by his presence, and all of its people voted in favor of his ejection.
