Johnny and Associates, the high-profile Japanese talent agency whose deceased founder and long-time president Johnny Kitagawa has been revealed as a serial sexual abuser, will forgo some of its fee ...

According to an investigation team, Johnny Kitagawa, the late founder of a talent agency for boy bands, sexually assaulted teenage boys as far back as the 1950s. The investigation team of a ...

TOKYO — The head of a powerful Japanese talent agency resigned Thursday and made an apology punctuated by repeated, lengthy bows, nine days after an internal investigation concluded that its founder ...

The Johnny & Associates talent agency in Japan is to dissolve following a major scandal caused by the acts of sexual abuse conducted by the group’s late founder Johnny Kitagawa. The company announced ...

From left: Lawyer Kazuya Sugiyama, Junya Hiramoto, Shimon Ishimaru and Yukihiro Oshima speak to reporters at a Tokyo office Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Hiramoto and Ishimaru who say they were sexually ...

The chief executive of the agency said she had not been aware of the claims against the agency’s founder, despite years of them coming to light. By Hisako Ueno and Yan Zhuang Hisako Ueno reported from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnny-Associates-Smile-Up - Credit: STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates announced ...