Japan’s Fuji Media tries to defuse ex-Smap member Nakai’s sex scandal, but it all backfires
The spiralling controversy involves Masahiro Nakai, the 52-year-old media personality who was the leader of defunct male idol group Smap, and mainstream broadcaster Fuji Television. It also highlights the growing role that foreign activist shareholders are playing in compelling change in stuffy Japanese boardrooms.
Fuji TV apologizes for concerns over ex-SMAP member Nakai's sex scandal
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The president of Fuji Television Network apologized Friday over allegations it was involved in a sexual misconduct scandal involving Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai, best known as a member of the now-defunct pop group SMAP, and a woman.
Top brass at Japanese network giant Fuji Television and its parent company have stepped down following allegations involving ...
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 ...
The aftermath of Masahiro Nakai, the leader of Japan's national idol group SMAP, announcing his retirement from the ...
Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai, who was a member of the former pop group SMAP, said Thursday he has retired from show ...
The allegations concern a 2023 encounter with a woman that involved a closed-door setting and a “sexual act against her will” ...
The 52-year-old former SMAP member said his contracts had been wound up, and that negotiations with sponsors were in progress ...
Japanese TV network Fuji faces mass advertiser exodus after allegations of covering up sexual assault claims against host ...
Fuji Television Network Inc. has established a third-party investigation committee in response to a weekly magazine report ...
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