sexual abuse laws. senior figures at the company have apologised publicly, but beyond the pr and the press conferences, there s another story victims and their families facing scepticism, leading to life changing consequences. ..and a company drowning in the scale of injustice. i m mobeen azhar, and i m back injapan to investigate the aftermath of the biggest child sex abuse scandal injapanese history. i ve been watching this story unfold blow by blow for more than a year from the other side of the world, so it s so nice to be back in japan so i can be on the ground and actually get a handle on what s been happening. it s hard to grasp the scale of this story. johnny kitagawa died in 2018. his company, johnny & associates, ruled the entertainment industry for decades. even after his death, they seemed unstoppable. but the revelations of abuse in 2023 brought the empire to its knees and its 60 year old legacy to an end. since then, a new company has been set up to deal solel
..and a company drowning in the scale of injustice. i m mobeen azhar, and i m back injapan to investigate the aftermath of the biggest child sex abuse scandal in japanese history. i ve been watching this story unfold blow by blow for more than a year from the other side of the world, so it s so nice to be back injapan so i can be on the ground and actually get a handle on what s been happening. it s hard to grasp the scale of this story. johnny kitagawa died in 2018. his company, johnny & associates, ruled the entertainment industry for decades. even after his death, they seemed unstoppable. but the revelations of abuse in 2023 brought the empire to its knees and its 60 year old legacy to an end. since then, a new company has been set up to deal solely with the compensation ofjohnny s survivors. it s called smile up. since our investigation in 2023, almost 1,000 men have come forward as survivors of kitagawa s abuse. their testimonies have fuelled a national conversation and
the royal college of surgeons warns that the number of patients waiting more than six months for routine operations and treatment in england has nearly tripled in four years. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. the crown prosecution service have announced that craig mackinlay, who is running for south thanet in the election for the conservatives, has been charged over his alleged overspending in the 2015 general election campaign. mr mackinlay defeated the then ukip leader, nigel farage, in the ballot. daniel sandford is with me now. first ball, talk us through what he has been charged with. it all goes back to the titanic battle in the 2015 general election between nigel farage and a conservative party. he was trying to get a seat in parliament for the first time. the conservative party were trying to keep them out. craig mackinlay was the candidate for the conservatives who managed to win that in south thanet. as all candidates have to do, he then filed his election