Two weeks ago, cast members of the South Korean TV drama series "Iris" appeared in concerts at Osaka Castle Hall and Saitama Super Arena. Some 60,000 fans of the star Lee Byung Hun bought tickets, but 1,400 at one of the Saitama events found themselves shut out after the organizers decided that the stage wasn't big enough.
The organizers set up a second stage on the day of the concert, but due to a lack of communication between them and the promoters they didn't realize until just before the doors opened that the area where they erected it had been set aside for standing-room ticket holders.
Apparently, there were a lot of very angry housewives — Lee's Japanese fan base — because media reports mentioned that a dozen policemen had to be called in.