Despite a lingering scandal, an adoring packed crowd at Kyocera Dome Osaka cheered on future stars from the Johnny & Associates Inc. entertainment agency in July.
Family cover-ups and media silence helped enable showbiz guru and sexual deviant Johnny Kitagawa to abuse perhaps hundreds of boys over several decades, a special team investigating the allegations said.
A special investigative panel said the president of one of Japan’s largest talent agencies should resign over the decades of sexual abuse committed by her uncle against hundreds of young entertainers.
Police believe famed Kabuki actor Ichikawa Ennosuke attempted suicide at his home the same day a weekly magazine reported his alleged involvement in a sexual abuse and power harassment scandal.
KUMAMOTO The district court has ordered the central government to pay compensation to a man and woman who were forcibly sterilized more than half a century ago under Japan’s now-defunct eugenics law.