The niece of Jonny Kitagawa, founder of the Japanese talent agency Jonny & Associates, stepped down this week from her role as president, acknowledging the decades long sexual abuse of the company’s young clients by its founder (who died in 1999). In a typically Japanese scene of corporate self-abasement, Julie Keiko Fujishima apologised to the victims and
Actor Noriyuki Higashiyama becomes new president // The below article contains references to sexual abuse and child abuse. Talent agency Johnny & Associates.