For months, Japan's entertainment industry has been rocked by a scandal that unseated one of its most popular ... Nakai, who is also a former member of J-Pop boy band SMAP, was accused of sexually ...

Observers say the former boy band member's fall from grace ... BBC documentary titled "Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop", which pressured Japanese media to address the long-standing accusations.

The scandal, which first broke in December through Japanese magazine exposés ... Associates once managed Nakai’s mega-popular boy band SMAP. Nakai announced his retirement from show business ...

Fuji Television is expected to set up an independent committee to investigate the scandal. Appearances ... in the 1990s as the leader of Japanese boy band SMAP, one of Asia's most successful ...

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.

Fuji Television Network Inc. and its parent company have established a third-party panel based on guidelines of the Japan Federation ... The focus of the scandal, however, has already outgrown ...

(Mainichi/Tatsuya Fujii) TOKYO -- The recent sexual misconduct scandal involving former TV host Masahiro Nakai has brought to light the Japanese television industry's lack of awareness of women's ...

The scandal stems from reports that ... a five-member singing and dancing male band, which debuted in 1988 and quickly surged to stardom in Japan and across Asia until it was disbanded in 2016.