Japan’s Fuji Media tries to defuse ex-Smap member Nakai’s sex scandal, but it all backfires
The spiralling controversy involves Masahiro Nakai, the 52-year-old media personality who was the leader of defunct male idol group Smap, and mainstream broadcaster Fuji Television. It also highlights the growing role that foreign activist shareholders are playing in compelling change in stuffy Japanese boardrooms.
Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan's top TV hosts and a former pop star, says he is retiring to take responsibility over sexual ...
The aftermath of Masahiro Nakai, the leader of Japan's national idol group SMAP, announcing his retirement from the ...
The allegations concern a 2023 encounter with a woman that involved a closed-door setting and a “sexual act against her will” ...
The 52-year-old former SMAP member said his contracts had been wound up, and that negotiations with sponsors were in progress ...
Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai announces retirement after sexual misconduct allegations - ‘I will continue to face my ...
Former boy band idol Masahiro Nakai is embroiled in a sex scandal, leading to an exodus of over 50 major advertisers from ...
Fuji Television Network Inc. has established a third-party investigation committee in response to a weekly magazine report ...
Observers say the former boy band member's fall from grace echoes music mogul Johnny Kitagawa's decades of sexual abuse Japan ...
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