Following a performance at NGT48 Theater on Thursday, NGT48 idol group member Maho Yamaguchi (23) offered an apology for “causing trouble” with recent incidents.
Yamaguchi began speaking out about the incident on social media on Wednesday, about a month after it occurred on December 8.
The police said that the suspects “only wanted to talk to Yamaguchi, and didn’t think it would be a big deal.”
NGT48 is a sister group of the AKB48 idol group based in Niigata prefecture, and it launched in 2015.