On TBS's ``Leave it to Akko!'' on the 25th, lawyer Noriko Miwa explained the issue of Downtown Hitoshi Matsumoto 's lawsuit against Bungeishunjusha, the publisher of Weekly Bunshun, which reported on his women's issues.

In an interview with Shukan Bunshun, lawyer Junichiro Hironaka, who is also known as the innocent contractor, pointed out that regarding Matsumoto's complaint, ``The overall way in which the issues are raised is old-fashioned and goes against current common sense.'' ``In this day and age, even if you don't commit violence, if you use your position to engage in sexual activity, you're out.''

Miwa also sympathized, saying, ``I feel the same way that Mr. Hironaka feels.'' ``It is claimed that there was no coercion of sexual acts, but the nature of the coercion is...I wonder if this is where Ms. Matsumoto's thinking differed from that of Ms. A and Ms. B. I felt that I needed to write a little more about the content of coercion, otherwise it wouldn't be conveyed,'' she said, interpreting it as a discrepancy in the interpretation of ``coercion'' on both sides.

Specifically, she said, ``When I think about forced sexual acts, I wonder if it's forced to perform sexual acts by using violence or obvious threats, or if it's a softer form of coercion. I think Mr. Hironaka expressed that even though the perpetrator may think that this is not coercion, the victim may feel that it is."