Japanese singer and songwriter Okamoto Kauan — a former client of the Johnny & Associates agency — has alleged that agency founder and long-time head Johnny Kitagawa committed numerous acts of ...

Instead, Mary Yasuko Fujishima, Kitagawa’s older sister who served as vice president under Kitagawa and became company chair after he died in 2019, covered up the sexual abuse. The report said ...

Julie K Fujishima, the niece of Johnny Kitagawa, announced her resignation in a news conference Thursday, saying the company would compensate the victims of her uncle’s abuse, according to ...

The head of Japan’s biggest music agency has apologized over allegations of years-long sexual abuse committed by its founder, the late entertainment mogul Johnny Kitagawa. Johnny & Associates ...

Johnny Kitagawa, who died in 2019, was the founder and president of Johnny & Associates, a prominent agency that managed and assembled an array of popular boy bands in Japan. While sexual assault ...

The three-month probe, which included speaking with 23 victims, concluded that Johnny Kitagawa sexually assaulted and abused boys as far back as the 1950s and targeted at least several hundred people.

A new report confirmed hundreds of cases of sexual abuse going back five decades by Johnny Kitagawa, a giant in the world of J-Pop who died in 2019 without ever facing any charges. By Hisako Ueno ...

A former teen idol said he was one of the many victims of sexual assault committed by Johnny Kitagawa, the founder of one of Japan’s largest and most influential talent agencies. Kauan Okamoto ...

Accusations that Mr. Kitagawa forced sex on the boys who signed onto his agency, Johnny & Associates, in the hopes it would catapult them to pop stardom had been made decades ago. And over a dozen ...

Johnny Kitagawa’s death in 2019 made front-page news. Photo: Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images Kitagawa denied wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime, but his sex-abuse allegations attracted ...