yeah, and that was absolute BS. There was an excellent piece about that by the Guardian yesterday:
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The fallout has puzzled Japanese observers not only because the 24-year-old's reported bluntness seems out of character but also because the more damning quotes did not appear in a single domestic media source.
Those of us in the mixed zone in Yokohama after Japan's 3-1 friendly win over Ghana on Tuesday, where Kagawa spent five minutes or so speaking in his native tongue to a packed mêlée of journalists before leaving, were moved to trawl back through audio files and transcripts to see what it was we had missed. As usual any individual interview requests had been rebuffed so we all had the same quotes and there was no sense at the time that his manner had been anything other than politely bland and uncontroversial.
So, to paraphrase Glenn Hoddle, did Kagawa actually say them things? No, he did not. Well, yes, perhaps he did sort of but not really. The reason that infamous line – "Please ask David Moyes why I'm not in the side" – never appeared in the Japanese press was not down to any sort of cover-up but simply because Kagawa had politely dismissed the associated question and thus offered nothing that most journalists present considered worth transcribing.
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http://www.theguardian.com/football/...-shinji-kagawa