It is also the first time the agency confirmed sexual abuse by founder Johnny Kitagawa. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO – The head of influential J-pop talent agency Johnny & Associates stepped down after investigators said the family-held firm turned a blind eye to decades of sexual abuse by its late founder.
“As an agency, and as an individual, I understand that there was sexual abuse by Johnny Kitagawa,” said Ms Fujishima on Thursday, appearing before media in person for the first time to address the scandal. Although weekly news magazine Shukan Bunshun ran a story about Kitagawa’s abuse in the late 1990s, he was never charged.
In August, members of a United Nations human rights group also looked into the case and called on Japan to better protect children from sexual abuse.
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