Earlier this month, weekly publication Shukan Shincho ran an article revealing that Takashi Hosokawa and four other enka singers had participated in a golf tournament held to celebrate the birthday of a yakuza boss. The other names mentioned were Akira Kobayashi, Nobue Matsubara, Hiroshi Kadokawa, and Kiyoshi Nakajo. All of the singers, except Nakajo, also attended a party afterwards.

Looking to verify the story, public broadcaster NHK contacted the singers' agencies and record labels, and it was confirmed that they had indeed played in the tournament. A few days later, NHK decided to suspend all appearances by those singers on the network's shows, including rebroadcasts of old episodes. This also includes a November episode of "NHK Nodo Jiman" and a December episode of "BS Nihon no Uta."

The length of the suspension is undecided, and it is unclear whether NHK will allow them on the upcoming Kohaku Uta Gassen.

TV Tokyo is taking a similar course of action, cutting Hosokawa's scenes from a show next week.

NTV revealed on Wednesday that 28-year-old announcer Nana Suzue got married earlier this week. Her husband is a 30-year-old employee at an advertising firm whom she has been friends with since they were university students. They began dating about a year and a half ago and finally registered their marriage this past Tuesday.

Suzue is a regular on shows such as "NEWS ZERO" and "Sekai Gyoten News." She is also a member of NTV's announcer unit go!go!girls.

The latest celebrity couple outed by FRIDAY magazine appears to be talento Mayumi Ono (27) and actor Ren Yagami (22). This week's issue reports that Yagami was seen leaving Ono's apartment one morning, wearing the same clothes as the day before.

Yagami, a member of the group PureBOYS, appeared in the drama series "Tokyo Ghost Trip" this past spring. Ono was also part of the show's cast, and the pair apparently built their relationship while working together.