including the one to which Nakai belonged, SMAP. Last Friday, Fuji TV President Koichi Minato acknowledged the company had been aware of the problem six months before the magazine report and hadn ...

Scenes featuring Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the pop idol group SMAP, were cut from a TV program aired Tuesday by Nippon Television Network Corp., the broadcaster said, amid magazine ...

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 ...

Top brass at Japanese network giant Fuji Television and its parent company have stepped down following explosive allegations involving former SMAP frontman Masahiro Nakai and claims of a corporate ...

(Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa) TOKYO -- Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the now-defunct idol group SMAP, on Jan. 9 responded over a widely publicized scandal involving a woman, admitting to the ...

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.

Major TV networks are scrambling to deal with programs emceed by former SMAP member Masahiro Nakai, who is caught up in an alleged sex scandal. Nakai, 52, once belonged to the hugely popular male ...

TV personality Masahiro Nakai announced on Thursday that he would ... the 52-year-old former member of the now-defunct boy band SMAP said terminations and cancellations of contracts involving ...

Nakai, 52, rose to fame as a member of the now-disbanded idol group SMAP. He announced his retirement from show business in January this year after weekly magazines reported about the assault ...

The advertising crisis erupted after weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun reported in December that Nakai, a former member of the mega-successful male group SMAP, had reached a JPY90 million ($577,000 ...

The famed former TV host is a member of the now disbanded top J-pop boy band Smap. “My honest feeling ... concern for helping the victim”. Nakai, 52, was allowed to appear in shows for around ...