Advertisers React & Corporate Fallout 3:59 Fuji TV's Response 5:22 Masahiro Nakai's Retirement 6:34 Problems in Japan's Entertainment Industry 7:59 Outro Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the ...

Top brass at Japanese network giant Fuji Television and its parent company have stepped down following explosive allegations involving former SMAP frontman Masahiro Nakai and claims of a corporate ...

TOKYO – One of Japan’s biggest pop stars and best-known television hosts, Masahiro Nakai ... boys and young men. Nakai, 52, was the leader of the now-disbanded Smap – part of Johnny ...

The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan's once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly settlement with a woman over the alleged sex assault at a 2023 dinner party that ...

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan's top TV hosts and a former pop star, says he is retiring to take responsibility over sexual ...

One of Japan's biggest pop stars and best-known TV hosts, Masahiro Nakai, announced his retirement ... sexually assaulted teenage boys and young men. Nakai was a member of the now-disbanded SMAP -- ...

The scandal centres on Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the popular male band SMAP and now a host at Fuji and other Japanese networks. Nakai has been linked by local media to an alleged sexual ...

Masahiro Nakai said in a statement to his paid fan club ... the 52-year-old former member of the hugely popular group SMAP. The allegations concern a 2023 encounter with the woman that leading ...

Tabloid reports also alleged that a Fuji Television executive had arranged a meal where Nakai, a member of the J-Pop sensation SMAP, met the woman in 2023. The network denied those allegations ...