Weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun corrected a key part of its initial scoop on the “trouble” between celebrity Masahiro Nakai and a woman that led to a scandal rocking the TV entertainment industry.

The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan's once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly settlement with a woman over the alleged sex assault at a 2023 dinner party.

Fuji TV President Koichi Minato and Chairman Shuji Kanoh announced on Monday that they will resign to take responsibility for how the broadcaster handled sexual misconduct allegations against ...

In a bid for redemption after Fuji Television's first, heavily criticized news conference addressing how it handled sexual misconduct allegations against TV personality Masahiro Nakai, the ...

The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan’s once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly settlement with a woman over the alleged sex assault at a 2023 dinner party.

Shukan Bunshun reported in December that TV personality Nakai Masahiro got into trouble with a woman in 2023 and paid her settlement money. The report quoted an acquaintance of the woman as saying ...

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 ...

after many companies suspended their commercials following a scandal involving former pop star Masahiro Nakai. The broadcaster, projecting its ad revenues to total 125.2 billion yen in the year ...

The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan’s once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly settlement with a woman over the alleged sex assault at a 2023 dinner party. The ...

The network came under fire, after it quickly learned that Nakai had trouble with a woman in June 2023 but kept the information to a limited number of executives and other people concerned and ...