Nakai didn't admit guilt and denied using force against the woman. But he apologised for "causing trouble" in a statement and said that he had "resolved" the matter in a settlement, reportedly worth ...

It all started with an “incident” involving a woman in her twenties and Nakai Masahiro, former member of boy band SMAP (which disbanded in 2016). While Fuji TV’s Chairman Kanō Shūji and ...

The recent sexual misconduct scandal involving former TV host Masahiro Nakai has brought to light the Japanese television ...

Toru Ota, a former chief of programming at Fuji Television Network Inc., said he continued hiring Masahiro Nakai despite learning early on about “trouble” between the celebrity and a woman at ...

At its heart was Masahiro Nakai, a household name and leading presenter for Fuji TV, one of the country's biggest broadcasters. Nakai, who is also a former member of J-pop boy band SMAP ...

Weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun corrected a key part of its initial scoop on the “trouble” between celebrity Masahiro Nakai ... to the dinner party by Nakai, not the Fuji TV executive.

Fuji Television Network Inc. headquarters, where a second press conference on the Masahiro Nakai scandal went late into the night, is seen in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Jan. 27, 2025. (Mainichi ...