TOKYO: The president of Japan's biggest boyband agency admitted on Thursday (Sep 7) that its late founder sexually abused young aspiring stars, decades after the allegations against him first emerged. Johnny Kitagawa died of a stroke aged 87 in 2019, having engineered the birth of J-pop mega-groups includi
TOKYO: The president of Japan's biggest boyband agency admitted on Thursday that its late founder sexually abused young aspiring stars, decades after the allegations against him first emerged.
"Both the agency itself and I myself as a person recognise that sex abuse by Johnny Kitagawa took place," said Julie Fujishima, a niece of the accused music mogul who died in 2019. Over the years, aspiring boyband idols collectively dubbed"Johnny's Juniors" sought his tutelage, and the panel estimated that at least"a few hundred" of them had been victimised.
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