A Hypocritical Husband

A Japanese actor Hiroyuki Nagato, 75 years old, held a press conference yesterday, to give detailed explanations about the sudden hospitalization of his wife Yoko Minamino, 76 years old. Minamino, who had been victimized by Alzheimer’s disease, fell into coma April 1, yesterday, being carried to hospital from her house emergently. Nagato, trying to stop the flood of his tears, explained his wife’s condition like this: “My wife, although she fell into coma, seemed to me to recognize that I was there, and smile at me. Sometimes she comes to, but not always. In fact, it’s really hard to tell she just slept, or she really lost her conscience.”
According to Nagato, Minamino got a serious damage on her left waist at night on March 28, due to an inadvertent fall from her own bed. Given her recent history that she has sometimes been on the verge of losing her consciousness because of mere constipation, it is plausible to regard this unexpected fall as caused by such disorder too. Although she was given an on-the-spot aid of a band-aid at that time, her pain still remained the same, making them decide to go to see a doctor.
But the next day, Minamino suddenly began to express no respond to her pain, and gradually lose vitality in her eyes, which made Nagato realize that something wrong was happening to his wife, and call the ambulance at noon on the same day. Minamino was sent to hospital straightly.
At present, Minamino is being under the remedy of an intravenous drip injection at hospital. “She reveals the strongest refusal to my kiss, so I asked her to promise me to get back her consciousness ― if I stopped trying to kiss her,” said Nagato, with full tears in his eyes. At the beginning, Nagato said, her condition was regarded as so hopeless that he once paid his imagination even to the possible sight of her relegation into a bed-ridden or vegetable situation, which if should happen, must be attributed entirely to him. But now, her condition turned out to be not so desperate as they had expected, as Nagato confessed that he was told by the doctor that she would be released from hospital within one month or so, expressing his temporal relief.
As for the career of Minamino, she left the entertainment world four years ago because of the deterioration of her forgettableness. Her hostility toward hospitalization has forced Nagato to take care of her at home since her retirement. At the press conference, he emphasized that it was extremely hard to care of the sick, at the same time saying that he also decided to believe in his wife’s strong will to live; “No one knows what will happen next. Nevertheless, she seems to have her own steadfast will to recuperate, and that makes me realize how strong she is.”

On a superficial level, we are given the impression that Nagato is just a dedicated, and sincere husband. But actually, it must not be ignored that there are some despicable histories of his hiding behind the suddenly invented movement in the world which tries to justify and glorify him, overlooking or even pretending not to be aware of, his past reprehensible problems with adultery, and showing as large amounts of sympathies as possible to him. Probably Minamino had suffered from his unfaithful attitude to their marriage for a long time, before finally she lost herself, even not being able to clearly identify her own self. And not until then, at last did her husband start to display himself as a sincerely devoted husband in a completely sentimental manner. Is that creditable? I do not think so. Even if he really rehabilitated himself and brought what he did home to himself with the largest compunction of penitence, he would deserve nothing otherwise than the acrimonious journey full of guilty supposed to obsess him all his life forever.