Actor Kenji Haga was arrested on Saturday, along with three others, on suspicions of blackmail. Haga owed a real estate agent approximately 400 million yen, and the four suspects allegedly coerced the man into signing a contract that would reduce the debt to 10 million yen.

Two of Haga's accomplices were identified as former boxing champ Jiro Watanabe and a man named Toshikazu Kawakita, a member of a syndicate that Watanabe has been linked to.