The company also demoted the then-head of programming for his alleged secondary harassment of the victim, a former Fuji TV ...

T OKYO (AP) — 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 ...

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 chairman and president of Japan’s Fuji Television resigned ... which centres around TV host and J-pop megastar Masahiro Nakai. A leading tabloid magazine reported last month that the 52 ...

“I, Masahiro Nakai, am retiring from show business as ... At least 50 companies, including Toyota Motor Corp, East Japan Railway Co, Shiseido Co, and Nippon Life Insurance, have suspended ...

Nakai presented for Fuji Television and was one of Japan's best-known TV hosts Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai, one of the country's most recognisable faces on television, has announced that he is ...

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Dozens of major companies in Japan have pulled their adverts from ... The scandal centres on Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the popular male band SMAP and now a host at Fuji and other Japanese ...

Masahiro Nakai is seen in this Feb. 21, 2020, file photo taken in Tokyo. (Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa) TOKYO -- Japan radio and TV stations and companies are suspending advertisements and upcoming ...

FILE - This photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency shows Masahiro Nakai, one of Japanese pop group SMAP members, posing for a photo during an exclusive interview with Xinhua in Beijing ...