Kojima Productions has threatened legal action after Hideo Kojima was falsely linked to the assassination of former Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe by a politician and news outlets.
“I naively took a joke for information,” he wrote. “I didn’t think we could make humor about the assassination of a man but I was wrong not to check before sharing. My apologies to Hideo Kojima and to the fans of Metal Gear.”showed images of the Metal Gear Solid designer while discussing Shinzo Abe’s alleged killer.to have used images of Kojima when covering the assassination.
On Friday, the incidents caused Hideo Kojima to trend on Twitter as some 35,000 tweets discussed “video game developer Hideo Kojima… misidentified as the suspected shooter”.While Kojima Productions did not immediately acknowledge the situation, on Saturday it published a statement claiming it would consider legal action against “some cases” of “fake news”.
“Kojima Productions strongly condemns the spread of fake news and rumors that convey false information,” it said. “We do not tolerate such libel and will consider taking legal action in some cases.” Shinzo Abe was shot while giving a speech in the city of Nara on Friday morning. Security at the scene tackled 41-year-old suspect Tetsuya Yamagami at the scene, who later admitted shooting Abe with a homemade gun, and said he had a grudge against a “specific organisation”.
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