In 10-hour news conference, Fuji TV execs step down over TV host sexual misconduct scandal

Surprise, surprise.

Did anyone NOT have this on their bingo card?

Tip of the iceberg. Expect more "talents" to be exposed for having done the same thing as Nakai. Look at the guy from Downtown.

between this and the smap guy article, I see a lot of words and sentences.

but none of them say arrested, indicted, jail or prison…..

So the choices were: go to the police and file official complaints about the nonconsensual sexual activities, or negotiate the ¥90 million pay-off settlement..... needless to say, she took the money !!

but none of them say arrested, indicted, jail or prison…..

Because it's settled. Out-of-court settlement contracts are legally binding, unless the other party wants to return the money, with interest of course.

There are multiple stories online about this sex fiend Nakai and Japanese TV companies regards to sexual harassment, sexual assault and treating women like meat.

https://mama.smt.docomo.ne.jp/article/7459089/?utm_source=dmenu_rec1&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=dmenu_top_personalize_targetingmedia_infinity

If BBC hadn't broadcast "Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop" 2023, "Johnny's and major media complex" would still continue, even such series of scandal were surely concealed.

A pound to a penny says these ceremonial resignations are followed up by placing Minato and Kano in other roles at Fuji at the same salary.

It’s all a big kabuki. Ceremony over action.

@derick Grene

Normally I would agree but this feels like a turning point

Never before has anything like today's marathon flogging of top executives happened let alone been broadcast on TV for 7 straight hours

Aori Azuuri - thank you

Probably they both will surface in 6 months time as directors of a subsidiary company, suitably remunerated, keeping a low profile. Happens all the time,

Some saying this is the end of Fuji TV. No way. Change the name, change the President, and reinvent the company.

Big Motor = Wecars

Johnny & Associates = SMILE-UP

10 hours????

Some saying this is the end of Fuji TV. No way. Change the name, change the President, and reinvent the company. 

Big Motor = Wecars

Johnny & Associates = SMILE-UP

FujiTV - We’re Really Sorry and it Shouldn’t Happen Again TV

Seriously though, I hope FujiTV shareholders hold a class action against Nakai for loss of revenue.

It took the intervention of a foreign investment form (owning 7% of Fuji TV) to pressure them into acting. The absolutly scathing letter is available on the Dalton Investments website here:

https://www.daltoninvestments.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FMH-Special-Independent-Committee-English-PffD-version.pdf

Despite the importance of this press conference, I wonder how many so-called journalists who suddenly woke up asked the same questions over and over again to make it last 10 hours.

10 hours and it's still unclear what he did???

And yet the victim's testimony has changed somewhat:

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/expert/articles/191f61880348ac4c9ea706bdbcf93316d33dbea0

Seems like the kind of thing we all assume goes on in most Japanese businesses. So many times I go out and see drinking parties with higher ups, that have the younger pretty office ladies being made to tend to them. If anyone is shocked it gets like this at the higher end companies I wonder if they have been paying attention at all.

when I moved to Japan the first year our brown nosing supervisor would take us to meet our company owner and decide the seating in his office. All the white blonde girl workers would sit next to him and be told what questions to ask him lol. Everyone else was made to stand. When a big boobed girl from the uk refused to be a part of that nonsense his response was “i knew I shouldn’t have hired women like this”. Even better at drinking parties he would tell them to talk to the ceo and serve him drinks. He was rewarded for his bs by getting transferred to a different prefecture away from the ceo haha.

but it’s just rampant in Japan. Serving up female staff for powerful men to feel powerful is par the course it seems. As pathetic as it is.

If Minato ‘felt deeply the weight of responsibility for undermining trust n the media’, whatever ethical and morality cells he had in both his own and his corporate body would have kicked in far, far earlier. My guess is he’s sorry only for the whole thing having come to light, for which as other commenters have said we have the foreign shareholder to thank

It’s disgraceful that rich people are allowed to buy their way out of trouble in Japan.

Being wealthy shouldn’t make the law not apply to you.

It’s disgraceful that rich people are allowed to buy their way out of trouble in Japan.

Being wealthy shouldn’t make the law not apply to you.

It's very disgraceful that it is allowed to happen in all developed democratic nations? Kama lady..this one only took 2yrs and 10hrs ... so far!

This story is not going to die down. People want to know more. I wonder what's going to happen to Nakai? Plastic surgery and a new name?

She should have gone to the police right away. The out-of-court settlement of 90 million yen is a lot of money to most people in Japan, but it's peanuts to a rich celebrity.

10 hours and it's still unclear what he did???

If you can read Japanese, there are some really disturbing allegations on the socials. The truth will out eventually.

It’s hard to believe a youngish popular former boy band singer and MC can’t get his own dates (or escorts) but has to rely on a Fuji-employed pimp.

Bugger me, but it's a bit hard to believe that that is all Nakai's fault. I have some sympathy for him.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a set up honey-trap by rival media outlets....

Strangely, "naive" Japanese mass easily forget what this TV station caused, have even cheaply sympathized mega-salary executives who mere faced tough questions just 10 hours.

It maybe natural that politics or corporations are corrupted in such country.

A human right is defense on trial.

She SAID a "misconduct", what is that? Can be touch a leg, a hand, chat in a sexual form. It say in crime law at japan.

But, again she said, she didn't prove it in court.

So, what happened?, a payment. The cause of civil payment not always is agree on the commitment of the crime but elude the "scandal" or hurt of the reputation.

A G7 country wouldn't allow that kind of "media trial".

If Nakai paid the settlement, there's nothing to investigate since the other party agreed to it.

The TBS announcer who did the proper claim in the justice and in front TBS's CEO still in zero. Feels like is more centred to who is the men if was "Johnny's" or not.

With Japan’s declining population, its industrialists have to learn the hard way and face the fact that male domination of the Japanese workplace will no longer be placed on a high pedestal. Severe labor shortages will force Japanese businesses to pay women more and to fill vacancies over less competent males. Don’t be surprised to one day see a female as head of the Japan self-defense forces.