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some of the victims alleged in a report by an external panel on Tuesday.
The panel, consisting of a lawyer, a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist, was commissioned by Johnny & Associates to address the allegations of abuse. It said the assaults of recruits, who came to be known as “Johnny’s Jrs”, could have stretched back as far as the 1950s, even before the company was formed in 1962.
“I had no prior sexual experience, so my body went rigid,” one interviewee told the panel. “But I thought it was a baptism of fire for me as a Johnny’s Jr.”recalled being handed 10,000 yen by him the following day.Allegations of abuse surfaced in Japanese media in 1999 and Kitagawa successfully sued for defamation, although the verdict was partially overturned on appeal. He was never criminally charged.
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