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 ...

A third-party panel set up by Fuji Television and its parent company has defended the appropriateness of the fact-finding process used to determine that TV personality Nakai Masahiro committed sexual ...

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan’s top TV hosts and a former pop star in the band SMAP, announced today that he was retiring to take responsibility over sexual assault allegations. Weekly magazine ...

Lawyers for former Japanese television personality Nakai Masahiro have rebutted an independent panel report claiming that he had committed sexual violence against a woman who was an announcer for Fuji ...

Nakai was born in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, and belonged to the Johnny and Associates Inc. talent agency. He became a leader of super-popular idol group SMAP, which was formed in 1988.

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.

Nakai was a leader of SMAP, a five-member singing and dancing male band, which debuted in 1988 and quickly surged to stardom in Japan and across Asia until it was disbanded in 2016. Major Japanese ...

Masahiro Nakai (pic) said in a statement to his paid ... dropping the 52-year-old former member of the hugely popular group SMAP. The allegations concern a 2023 encounter with the woman that ...