Major TV networks are scrambling to deal with programs emceed by former SMAP member Masahiro Nakai, who is caught up in an alleged sex scandal. Nakai, 52, once belonged to the hugely popular male ...

(Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Scenes featuring Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the pop idol group SMAP, were cut from a TV program aired Tuesday by Nippon Television Network Corp ...

The reports, which emerged in December 2024, said Masahiro Nakai, a 52-year-old former member of the hugely popular group Smap, had paid a woman a lump sum of 90 million yen (S$777,000).

Nakai is a former member of the now-defunct Japanese pop idol group SMAP. The scandal surfaced in December when weekly magazines reported that the 52-year-old celebrity got into "trouble" with the ...

a former member of the now-defunct idol group SMAP, amid a series of media reports on his alleged incident involving a woman. Maki Hiwara, president of major radio broadcaster Nippon Broadcasting ...

According to the report, Nakai, a former member of boy band SMAP, was supposed to have dinner with a Fuji TV executive and a woman. But the executive backed out at the last minute, leaving Nakai ...

The scandal surfaced last month when weekly magazines reported Nakai, a former member of the now-defunct Japanese pop idol group SMAP, got into "trouble" with a woman in 2023 and paid her ...

One of the largest shareholders of Fuji Media Holdings is demanding that the network establish a third-party committee to examine the “uproar” created by Masahiro Nakai, the former leader of disbanded ...