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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — An investigation by a major Japanese talent agency into sexual abuse allegations against its founder won’t address monetary or criminality questions but rather aims to prevent such cases ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO (AP) — A team investigating sexual assault allegations by the late founder of a powerful talent agency for boy bands has found the charges credible, calling Tuesday for compensation for the ...