TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai, who was a member of the former pop group SMAP, said Thursday he has retired from show business following alleged sexual misconduct that led ...

Fuji previously denied tabloid reports suggesting one of its employees had arranged the meal where Nakai, a member of the 1990s boy band sensation Smap, met the woman in 2023. The now-disbanded ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the pop idol group SMAP who is embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal, has apologized for causing "trouble." "It is true there was trouble" and it "all resulted ...

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 ...

(Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa) TOKYO -- Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the now-defunct idol group SMAP, on Jan. 9 responded over a widely publicized scandal involving a woman, admitting to the ...

The reports, which emerged last month, said that 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 (US$570,000). That was to ...