The early 2000s were wild, a dev could just say shit like this in interviews and still get treated like a gaming celeb with magazines shooting ego-stroking promo videos where he plays with swords while wearing sunglasses indoors.
You’d never get a director like Tomonobu Itagaki today because of woke mind virus cancel culture!!! 
I’m watching Grim Beard’s new video on the Tekken spinoff Death by Degrees which includes a funny tangent about the one-sided feud between Tomonobu Itagaki and Katsuhiro Harada where he shows this interview
Apparently the charges got dismissed. It’s probably a case of
prioritizing protecting corporate reputations, but I wonder what his defense was, “Your honor, this is an adult woman. I am a libertarian who plays with swords and wears sunglasses inside.”?