Former TOKIO Member Tatsuya Yamaguchi Opens YouTube Channel, Details Mountain Work
Yamaguchi is publicly documenting his post-scandal life for the first time, showing a decade of manual labor and addiction recovery work that goes beyond the lectures he has given since 2023.
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Tatsuya Yamaguchi, former TOKIO member, launched a YouTube channel on June 24. In his first video, he apologized for past misconduct and revealed that for eight years after leaving entertainment, he has been maintaining overgrown mountains in the Kanto region, cutting trees and bamboo. He also works part-time construction and gives lectures on alcohol addiction and drunk driving prevention.
Yamaguchi, who left TOKIO and effectively retired from entertainment in 2018 after being referred to prosecutors for indecent assault against a minor female, said in the video that he returned to his parents' home and worked part-time in construction. In 2019, a connection asked him to help with mountain maintenance, and he has been cutting down trees and bamboo in a mountain in the Kanto region ever since. He established Tatsuya Yamaguchi Inc. in 2023, publicly acknowledged his alcohol addiction, and now gives crisis management seminars on eradicating drunk driving as well as lectures on addiction and not giving up on life. The video's subtitles read, 'There may be harsh opinions. I will accept those opinions and if there is anything I can do now, I will do my best.'
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