Believe it or not, no.
Iâve been in Japan for over a decade. I disagree with you, but everyone has their own experiences and it also depends what media you read and how fluent you are as well as what kind of people are around you to get a full picture.
They have, you donât follow their popular culture and famous people?
Unjashâs Watabe is one example that comes to my mind. Miyasako.
I just remembered the dude from Jinkaku Radio legit got cancelled and basically fucked the band over.
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To be honest⊠they kind of f* over the band with some of their last releasesđ Nowadays Yuuki is more entertained doing yt videos of his daughter and his life on the countrysideđ€Ł
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One of the members of Radwimps said he was going on an âindefinite hiatusâ after ShĆ«kan Bunshun found out he was having an affair with a model. I think thatâs the closest thing Iâve seen to the Western idea of being âcanceledâ unless you count what happened to Aya Hirano after people got mad at her for sleeping with one of her band members because I donât think her career was the same after that.
Yeah, its mainly cheating on others etc that gets you cancelled in Japan, unless you commit a crime. Now when I think about it
There is no political correctness in Japan so its hard to get cancelled for anything related to things people in the west get cancelled for.
Made me think of Minami Minegishi, who shaved her head and got degraded to a trainee in AKB48 again, after she spent the night at a guy his apartment.
So basically her own label cancelled her.
(although we gotta admit here, she kinda went against her actual contract, which didnt allow dating)
By the way, the guy she stayed over at, Alan Shirahama got out of everything pretty unscatted, he went on to have another scandal some years later, because he had an affair with a married woman, apparently he didnt know she was married.
and yeah, dude laid low a little and went on as usual afterwards.
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Well itâs not really a rumor. Just that the details are muddy. The vocalist and drummer were filming a PV and climbed the bridge as/for some type of stunt. Itâs commonly believed that they were tied together for this stunt but thatâs never been confirmed. Point is at least one fell and dragged the other with him and they died after falling.
The muddy details are what they were doing, if they were tied and if so why, who slipped first, etc. And people make crazy rumors about suicide pacts or murder which are unfounded and only hurt the remaining members (at this point only one because 2 years later the bassist committed suicide)
People think theyâre deaths are too mysterious to be an accident but if the 2010s taught us anything is that people even grown adults will climb everything for the âperfect shotâ but they were like 15 (or 17 not 100% sure but definitely below 18)
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Itâs fairly well known that they had climbed the bridge as part of a stunt. The 2010s taught us that people even grown adults will climb the highest heights for the âperfect shotâ so this isnât implausible for 15-17 year old kids
Also Visual Kei is literally a counterculture movement. Since Japanese society is so safe and risk averse itâs perfectly in line for kids from the scene especially in that time to do risky things.
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Those VK bands would never have apologized for using the old emperor flag if westerners had no idea about them. Quite interesting when you think about it.
I think a bunch of these guys 
fall into the cancelled category
thanks!
Iâm not the most conspiracy-leaning type out there, but given itâs vk + decade when it happened + Japan is the type of country that would invent suction cups on footwear to make it safer for workers to do roofwork, so that part looked too dodgy to be coindental - the crew filming them probably was bit older than high-school age.
Iâll take your version tho.
I donât think OG The Piass ever had a label. So Iâm thinking there was no crew and they were filming themselves
they were handled by kenziâs anarchist records if english internet is reliable enough on that