Overview
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police detained the 30-year-old early on January 18 in Taito Ward on suspicion he kicked and broke a restaurant's entrance door.
- Investigators report he had been drinking alone and told officers he could not recall what happened.
- He was absent from the January 18 New Spring Asakusa Kabuki performance as Shochiku announced program changes, cancellations, and replacements.
- Shochiku and his talent agency say they are still verifying the facts, and the agency has not been able to contact him.
- A child-actor-turned-protégé of the late Nakamura Kanzaburo, he had been scheduled to assume the stage name Nakamura Maizuru at Kabuki-za in February.