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 ...

What’s happening at Fuji TV? At the scandal’s center is Masahiro Nakai, an alumni of popular Japanese ’90s boy band SMAP who went on to become a TV personality.

It’s reported that the boy band star had been using the website K8 and spent a whopping 15 million yen ($104,000). It’s estimated that he lost 7.1 million yen ($49,258.18). The law comes down ...

TOKYO — Dozens of major Japanese companies have pulled their commercials on Fuji Television amid allegations company officials tried to cover up a sex scandal involving one of the country’s ...

The scandal, which first broke in December through Japanese magazine exposés, has triggered an advertising exodus at the network. While acknowledging the incident was treated as an ...

Star TV host retires as sex scandal rocks Japan industry. ... Nakai soared to stardom in the 1990s as the leader of Japanese ...

Japanese pop group Tokio, formerly part of Johnny & Associates Inc., said Wednesday it has decided to disband following ...

Tokio is making news in Japan because it’s disbanding after Taichi Kokubun, one of the members, was allegedly caught in a ...

TOKYO - A member of a hugely popular Japanese girl band has shaved her head and issued a tearful videotaped apology for violating the megagroup's no-dating rule, sparking a national debate over ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Dozens of major Japanese companies have pulled their commercials on Fuji Television amid allegations company officials tried to cover up a sex scandal involving one of the country ...

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.