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 ...

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 ...

“I, Masahiro Nakai, am retiring from show business as ... Nakai was a member of the five-member boy band SMAP, created in 1988 by music producer Johnny Kitagawa. After debuting in 1991, SMAP ...

Fuji Media Holdings Inc. said Thursday it will pursue legal action against two former top officials of its television network subsidiary over a sexual misconduct scandal involving popular TV host ...

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

TOKYO — Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan’s top TV ... including the one to which Nakai belonged, SMAP. Last Friday, Fuji TV President Koichi Minato acknowledged the company had been aware of ...

(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 ...

A two-month investigation headed by an independent team commissioned by Fuji TV concluded on March 31 that host Masahiro Nakai had indeed ... of Asia's top boy bands Smap in the 1990s, retired ...

A leading Japanese tabloid magazine reported in December 2024 that Fuji TV’s celebrity presenter Masahiro ... agreement. Nakai – a former leader of Japanese male idol group Smap, which swept ...

TOKYO – A former Fuji Television employee expressed both relief and frustration in a statement on April 1 after a third-party panel report concluded she was sexually assaulted by Masahiro Nakai.

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan’s top TV hosts and a former pop star in the band SMAP, announced today that he was retiring to take responsibility over sexual assault allegations. Weekly magazine ...