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INTEREST: Idol Fined 650,000 Yen for Dating Contract Violation

Kai99 wrote:

No, what we are talking about is not the same. For one, my argument is against the idea that she, as a fifteen year old teenager, fully understood what was getting into, both in terms of what fame meant and the sacrifices she would have to make in terms of the contract. Teens brains are still developing and they lack the same conscious decision making that adults have. To dismiss her youth and say she is just as capable as any adult to understand the terms of a contract and be able to sign such a contract, is MY issue. A better analogy would be that 17 year olds in the US are able to take in thousands upon thousands of dollars of loan money to pay for college without fully understanding what that will mean for their life after college.

The brain isn't done developing until 24(well after you're considered an adult everywhere), so that's nowhere near as strong an argument as you're pretending it is(and your link's broken, anyway). 15 is more than old enough to face responsibility for your actions and expect someone to keep simple promises like no sexytimes(care to remind me how long this was a society-wide expectation?); she knew damn well what she was doing was against the terms of her contract, whether she was forward-thinking when she signed it or if she was thinking past the threesome when she went to the hotel, so she has no excuse. You're abusing scientific facts as an excuse to coddle someone.

(As for student loans, all of society's actively joining together to help colleges prey on innocent people with the whole "get an education even if it's in bullshit and you'll automatically do better in life!" meme; the idol industry makes it perfectly clear what happens to idols caught with men)

An area of the teenager's brain that is fairly well-developed early on, though, is the nucleus accumbens, or the area of the brain that seeks pleasure and reward. In imaging studies that compared brain activity when the subject received a small, medium or large reward, teenagers exhibited exaggerated responses to medium and large rewards compared to children and adults [source: Powell]. When presented with a small reward, the teenagers' brains hardly fired at all in comparison to adults and children.

The real blame for all this lies with the idol fans. They are the one's that stop supporting idols when they are no longer "pure".

The reason WHY she is in trouble is wrong. This idea of purity and the idol where the idol can't even date, needs to be change. But, in my opinion, the only way it will change is the idols themselves finally taking a stand and fight against this "purity" clause and argue for that right.

Supporting idols just for their image? While true, that's sad and pathetic and probably a sign of mental illness in adults, this is ok as a child though. A real fan would support them for their talent and true personality. That needs to change for the sake of idols and the fan's sanity.

Hoppy800 wrote:

Supporting idols just for their image? While true, that's sad and pathetic and probably a sign of mental illness in adults, this is ok as a child though. A real fan would support them for their talent and true personality. That needs to change for the sake of idols and the fan's sanity.

Not sure you actually understand the industry. They are not hired for their talent, they are hired to maintain an image that their fans will love. Any real talent in the singing and dancing department is just a bonus.

I would consider any fan, who is willing to spend hundreds of dollars on their favorite idol, to be a real fan. When it comes to fandom, Japan has the west beat.

She young, foolish, who, from what she stated, had no idea what kind of industry she was getting into and did not realize how important it was to appear "pure".

The age of majority in Japan is the same as in [most of] the US, 18.

Morally right or not don't matter, when you get a job you know what to do and you have to respect the rules, and this is valid for everything.

A contract is a contract.

@Ali07

That isn't something relegated only to teenagers.

The real blame for all this lies with the idol fans. They are the one's that stop supporting idols when they are no longer "pure".