You have a very fucked up sense of how fame works.

People don't just get paid to be famous. More often than not, fame is a byproduct of their success in a particular field.

Being a celebrity is not (usually) a career in and of itself. Celebrity most often comes as part of being notable as an actor, singer, or performer. Hell even scientists can become celebrities. Are Stephen Hawking or Neil deGrasse Tyson any less deserving of privacy than other physicists simply because they're well-known and widely published?

How is it so difficult for you to understand that everybody is entitled to at least some modicum of privacy regardless of their occupation or social status?

I feel sorry for your mother having to wash your cum-stained clothing every week.

> Implies they are adults when thy join
> has no idea how grooming works

I also find your news person analogy hilarious. Hilariously bad, that is. On the one hand, being recruited into a job where you're required to behave unnatural and having to quit because you ended up behaving natural after all. On the other, entering a completely normal job and having to quit because you did something unethical. DOES NOT COMPARE

Also, as others said, for a girl as actually talented as her it's quite likely she did this on purpose. It's a way of saying "fuck you, I'm 'graduating' from this shit on my own". Now she's free of AKB48's selective promotion scheme. Can only do her good if she's serious about singing.

Jesus you are really that retarded...
You try make more money as an astrophysicist than some young bubbly innocent persona.
I bet you couldn't even make it out of undergraduate...

The women who try to make the best of a social environment that promotes totally warped attitudes towards them and is generally incredibly hostile to their prosperity are calculating bitches. Yeah.

Also, to Yuka Masuda and other idols like her.. if you don't know and understand these rules going in, then you get what you deserve. No, it isn't fair but that's what you signed up for.

Either these idols really are that clueless and naive, or they're even more calculating bitches than anyone thinks; deliberately predicting when they're famous enough to get cut loose from AKB and still make a 'career'.

Which came first, the obsessive otaku or the creepy pandering idol group? Chikan, meet egg.

I say in the end both sides are at fault.

For the Japanese, that means that tattoos are for the Yakuza. It's not the truth, but that's how they believe. Yes, some of them realize that elsewhere in the world it's not like that and they now want to have tattoos that are just art to be admired, but those people aren't living elsewhere in the world, they are living in Japan. And the same thing goes for idols, sex, and idols having sex. It might not be fair or make good common sense, but that's how it is. In time it will change, but not until their society as whole makes that change.