The new firm established to manage Johnny & Associates Inc. performers unveiled its company name as Starto Entertainment Inc., in a bid to start afresh following a sex abuse scandal involving the late founder of the former male talent agency.
Japan's public broadcaster NHK announces a list of singers who will perform in its year-end live music show, omitting artists from what used to be Johnny & Associates Inc. after the male talent agency admitted to decades of sexual abuse by its late founder.
The public relations firm that organized a press conference for scandal-hit male talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. admits that it had drawn up a "blacklist" of certain journalists not to be called on to ask questions.
Male talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. will begin from November paying compensation to the 325 men who claimed to have been sexually abused by its founder, but as more victims may come forward the scandal is not over.
Johnny & Associates Inc. may never recapture the influence it wielded within Japan's entertainment industry due to the scars left by the sexual abuse perpetrated over decades by its late founder, even after on Monday announcing a name change and revealing a new agency will be created.