Japan’s Fuji Media tries to defuse ex-Smap member Nakai’s sex scandal, but it all backfires
The spiralling controversy involves Masahiro Nakai, the 52-year-old media personality who was the leader of defunct male idol group Smap, and mainstream broadcaster Fuji Television. It also highlights the growing role that foreign activist shareholders are playing in compelling change in stuffy Japanese boardrooms.
The allegations concern a 2023 encounter with a woman that involved a closed-door setting and a “sexual act against her will” ...
Tokyo Broadcasting Television Inc. (TBS) on Jan. 20 said it will scrap a regular TV program featuring Masahiro Nakai, the ...
One of Japan's best-known pop stars and TV hosts announced his retirement Thursday after sexual misconduct allegations, in ...
Nakai, 52, reportedly paid a woman $791,000 after she alleged sexual misconduct. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Public mea culpas are a corporate ritual in Japan. For Fuji TV, the resignations and public apologies of two bosses didn’t ...
TOKYO -- What started as a professional ethics issue involving a sexual misconduct scandal by a former pop idol in Japan has turned into a corporate governance disaster causing major companies to ...
A press conference held by Fuji Television Network, Inc. over the scandal involving the retired entertainer Masahiro Nakai, ...
Top executives of Fuji Television Network Inc. have resigned over a scandal that was brought to light by the weekly Shukan ...
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