Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan's top TV hosts and a former pop star, says he is retiring to take responsibility over sexual ...

Top brass at Japanese network giant Fuji Television and its parent company have stepped down following allegations involving ...

The spiralling controversy involves Masahiro Nakai, the 52-year-old media personality who was the leader of defunct male idol ...

The allegations concern a 2023 encounter with a woman that involved a closed-door setting and a “sexual act against her will” ...

The aftermath of Masahiro Nakai, the leader of Japan's national idol group SMAP, announcing his retirement from the ...

The 52-year-old former SMAP member said his contracts had been wound up, and that negotiations with sponsors were in progress ...

Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan's once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, reached a costly settlement with a woman over an alleged sex assault.

Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai announces retirement after sexual misconduct allegations - ‘I will continue to face my ...

Japanese TV network Fuji faces mass advertiser exodus after allegations of covering up sexual assault claims against host ...

Observers say the former boy band member's fall from grace echoes music mogul Johnny Kitagawa's decades of sexual abuse Japan ...

Former star of J-pop band SMAP Masahiro Nakai resigned after several damning reports and suspicions that broadcasting giant ...

FILE - This photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency shows Masahiro Nakai, one of Japanese pop group SMAP members, posing for a photo during an exclusive interview with Xinhua in Beijing ...