The Japanese government said Thursday it has pulled advertisements from Fuji Television in the wake of sexual assault ...

The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan’s once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly ...

Japan's Fuji Media said on Monday its chairman and the head of its TV unit would step down immediately amidst a probe into ...

A sudden shakeup within the TV industry has occurred as a scandal forces a major network president to resign and another well ...

Fuji TV chairman Shuji Kano and president Koichi Minato stepped down to take responsibility for an alleged sexual assault by a TV host at a 2023 dinner that the Japanese network is alleged to helped ...

Weekly magazines have reported that Nakai, once a member of the disbanded pop idol group SMAP, had an unspecified problem with a woman in 2023 and paid her settlement money. The magazines also say ...

An activist investor is demanding that Japan’s Fuji Media Holdings Inc. investigate a scandal embroiling one of the country’s most prominent celebrities, saying lack of transparency over the ...

According to the report, Nakai, a former member of boy band SMAP, was supposed to have dinner with a Fuji TV executive and a woman. But the executive backed out at the last minute, leaving Nakai ...

One of the largest shareholders of Fuji Media Holdings is demanding that the network establish a third-party committee to examine the “uproar” created by Masahiro Nakai, the former leader of disbanded ...

Police sent to prosecutors on Sunday a student accused of injuring eight people in a hammer attack at a university campus in suburban Tokyo. Yoo Ju Hyun, a South Korean studying in Japan, was arrested ...

Nakai is a former member of the now-defunct Japanese pop idol group SMAP. The scandal surfaced in December when weekly magazines reported that the 52-year-old celebrity got into "trouble" with the ...

(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 ...