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 ...

Nakai was born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, and belonged to the Johnny and Associates Inc. talent agency. He became a leader of super-popular idol group SMAP, which was formed in 1988.

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 ...

Nakai was a leader of SMAP, a five-member singing and dancing male band, which debuted in 1988 and quickly surged to stardom in Japan and across Asia until it was disbanded in 2016. Major Japanese ...

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan's top TV hosts and a former pop star, said Thursday he was retiring to take responsibility over sexual assault allegations that are part of a wave roiling Japan's ...