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, 52, was a member of the hugely popular male idol group SMAP before it disbanded in 2016. Since late last year, multiple publications have reported on his alleged sexual misconduct toward a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The resignations of the top officials of the Tokyo-based company come amid allegations against Nakai, who rose to fame as a member of the now-defunct pop group SMAP. The scandal has placed the network ...

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 ...