A number of major Japanese companies have decided to stop working with celebrities represented by Johnny & Associates as the talent agency addresses decades of sexual abuse perpetuated by its late founder. Driving the news: Julie Keiko Fujishima, 57, recently stepped down from her post as company president and expressed regret for the actions of her late uncle, Johnny Kitagawa, who had been accused of sexually assaulting young boys for decades. Prior to her resignation, a third-party panel appointed by the company itself concluded that Kitagawa had abused hundreds of talents as far back as the 1950s.
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