Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the legendary Japanese pop group SMAP, has been at the center of a shocking sex scandal that has rocked Fuji TV, one of Japan’s major networks. With allegations of a ...

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 Fuji TV staff allegedly helped to ...

Shortly after the reports of alleged sexual misconduct by Nakai, formerly of the iconic pop group SMAP, Fuji TV and other networks removed him from programming, either replacing shows or editing ...

Major TV networks are scrambling to deal with programs emceed by former SMAP member Masahiro Nakai ... the woman and an employee of Fuji Television Network Inc. The article said that at the ...

Fuji TV chairman Shuji Kano and president and CEO ... at which a former member of the now-disbanded pop idol group SMAP is claimed to have assaulted a woman. Kano and Minato announced they were ...

It all started with an “incident” involving a woman in her twenties and Nakai Masahiro, former member of boy band SMAP (which disbanded in 2016). While Fuji TV’s Chairman Kanō Shūji and ...

Fuji TV apologized for causing trouble to many advertisers ... now-defunct talent agency Johnny & Associates, which managed SMAP and many other boy bands. In 2023, it admitted to sexual abuse ...

and "SMAP X SMAP," which lasted more than 20 years until 2016 ... The Shukan Bunshun weekly also reported that a Fuji TV programming department official was involved in arranging the meet-up. Fuji ...

Fuji TV has been embroiled in a scandal since December when Japanese magazines accused Masahiro Nakai, a TV host and leader of the former boy band SMAP, of sexual misconduct at an event arranged ...

Last month, then Fuji TV Chairman Shuji Kano and President Koichi ... best known as a member of the now-defunct pop group SMAP, engaged in alleged nonconsensual sexual activity with a woman ...