Veteran actor-director Takeshi Kitano has joined calls for the industry to clean up its act after a spate of reputation-damaging sex abuse scandals and suicides linked to overwork and bullying.
The chairman of Hankyu Hanshin Holdings Inc. plans to resign from his position as president of the Takarazuka Music School, which trains Takarazuka Revue Company performers, following the apparent suicide of a 25-year-old member, sources said.
Japan's all-female theater troupe Takarazuka Revue will set up a panel of experts possibly by year-end as it seeks to improve its corporate culture following the death of one of its actresses, a source related to the troupe's parent firm says.
Shamed by an initial report into the suspected suicide of a rising star of the Takarazuka Revue, top-level entities of the all-female troupe will take over the task and set up another panel to investigate the young woman’s death.