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Most innuendo surrounding Kawada's suicide has focused on
a man the weekly indentifies only as "Mr. X,"
an employee of production company K Dash,
one of Japan’s leading talent agencies
that includes such luminaries as Oscar-nominated Ken Watanabe on its books.
"Some of the sports newspapers have reported
that there was nothing between Kawada and Mr. X,
but some say those reports came about
because the print media fears the power Mr.
X wields within the industry,"
an insider from a commercial TV network tells Keichiro Wada writing for Sunday Mainichi.
"Kawada quit her job at TBS at the end of March last year and became a freelancer
because Mr. X talked her into it.
Everybody around knew the two of them were seeing each other at that time."
Sunday Mainichi (6/15)A reporter on the entertainment beat elaborates.
"Mr. X is a good-looking guy who comes across as being sweet and he’s a fine worker
who has a lot of pull in casting for TV programs.
If someone like that prompts you to make a career move by promising to look after you,
most people would go along with it," the insider says.
"Some were saying that he and Kawada were close enough for marriage to be on the books."
But anything that may have been going on between Mr. X and Kawada was finished by the end of the year,
apparently with the dashing production company beau calling things off,
but the weekly conceding that nobody in the media is sure of what really happened.
(Mainichi Japan) June 6, 2008