A third-party panel set up by Fuji Television and its parent company says it will refrain from communicating with lawyers ...

Japan’s entertainment industry is in the midst ... including the one to which Nakai belonged, SMAP. Last Friday, Fuji TV President Koichi Minato acknowledged the company had been aware of ...

They topped the U.S. charts last summer. Many fewer people know the blueprints for the genre mostly came from Japan. A group there called SMAP played a big role in shaping the pop idol landscape ...

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 ...

The report centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan’s once-popular boy band SMAP, and how Fuji Television handled the 2023 case in which Nakai allegedly sexually assaulted a Fuji ...

TOKYO -- Japan radio and TV stations and companies are suspending advertisements and upcoming episodes of programs featuring Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the now-defunct idol group SMAP ...

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: Hugely popular Japanese boy band SMAP will break up at the end of the ... are regularly referred to as “national idols” and have dominated Japan’s show business industry for the ...

Japanese boy band SMAP will break up at the end of the year, its promoter said recently, disappointing legions of fans in Japan and other parts of Asia just seven months after its members pledged ...