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 ...

(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 ...

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.

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

Disgraced celebrity Masahiro Nakai sexually assaulted a former announcer ... Nakai, 52, rose to fame as a member of the now-disbanded idol group SMAP. He announced his retirement from show ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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