Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan's top TV hosts and a former pop star, says he is retiring to take responsibility over sexual assault allegations

Longtime executive of Fuji TV Hisashi Hieda, who has been dubbed the “emperor” of the broadcaster, was not present at the news conference and did not resign.

Public mea culpas are a corporate ritual in Japan. For Fuji TV, the resignations and public apologies of two bosses didn’t assuage public anger.

The allegations concern a 2023 encounter with a woman that involved a closed-door setting and a “sexual act against her will”. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Tokyo Broadcasting Television Inc. (TBS) on Jan. 20 said it will scrap a regular TV program featuring Masahiro Nakai, the celebrity entertainer caught up in a sex scandal.

The chairman and president of Japan’s Fuji Television resigned today, weeks after a celebrity presenter and former pop star was accused of

Observers say the former boy band member’s fall from grace echoes music mogul Johnny Kitagawa’s decades of sexual abuse.

Nakai, 52, reportedly paid a woman $791,000 after she alleged sexual misconduct. Read more at straitstimes.com.

One of Japan's best-known pop stars and TV hosts announced his retirement Thursday after sexual misconduct allegations, in the latest scandal to rock the country's entertainment industry. Japan's showbiz industry was then rocked by another bombshell sexual assault scandal involving Hitoshi Matsumoto,

TOKYO — The head of Japan's Fuji Television ... country's top celebrities and company officials' suspected involvement. Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the SMAP boy band who is now a popular ...

A sex scandal involving famous Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai and Fuji Television Network Inc. has exposed systemic governance and abuse issues among Japanese broadcasters, causing public disenchantment with the media industry that will likely be difficult to overcome.