Johnny and Associates, the high-profile Japanese talent agency whose deceased founder and long-time president Johnny Kitagawa has been revealed as a serial sexual abuser, will forgo some of its fee ...

The Johnny & Associates talent agency in Japan is to dissolve following a major scandal caused by the acts of sexual abuse conducted by the group’s late founder Johnny Kitagawa. The company announced ...

From left: Lawyer Kazuya Sugiyama, Junya Hiramoto, Shimon Ishimaru and Yukihiro Oshima speak to reporters at a Tokyo office Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Hiramoto and Ishimaru who say they were sexually ...

The head of Japan’s top pop agency Johnny & Associates stepped down Thursday after admitting that her uncle, the company’s late founder, had sexually abused minors for years, following months of ...

The chief executive of the agency said she had not been aware of the claims against the agency’s founder, despite years of them coming to light. By Hisako Ueno and Yan Zhuang Hisako Ueno reported from ...

The identity of the shot woman was not publicly disclosed. The police chief said the woman, who was married, was not a target of immigration operations. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson ...