On December 15, 2020, the police announced that they had arrested a man in his mid-20s for cyberbullying.[43][44] The man, who resides in Osaka Prefecture, admitted to the allegations and was quoted by the police as saying he “couldn’t forgive Kimura’s attitude on the program.”[45] On March 30, 2021, the Tokyo Prosecutors Office indicted the Osaka man for online abuse directed at Kimura, but wasn’t obliged to face trial under the indictment, as is often the case for relatively minor offenses in Japan.