Compensation is not the end of the issue, and the problem will happen again without understanding the whole picture of the scandal.

the problem will happen again without understanding the whole picture of the scandal.

It's how things work. We could call it the culture, though sweeping problems under the carpet and forgetting about them on behalf of powerful forces would better characterise it. I mean to say, this problem was swept under the carpet several years before as well.

On top of it all, Yoshinobu, you get to see that company make more bank by putting its performers on the NHK Red and White New Year's show.

These cases are only allowed to surface after the perpetrator dies, because legal systems are designed to protect abusers whilst they are alive.

As with Jimmy Savile, it is usually an 'open secret', but libel and slander laws, 'super injunctions', D notices and SLAPP lawsuits are used to silence victims and the press.

The legal system will continue to protect the rich and powerful from their victims. Any 'reforms' will be token gestures that make little difference. The rich and powerful are allowed to be predators. The rest of us are considered prey.

Try to avoid the sort of situations that bring you into contact with rich and powerful people, where you may catch the eye of potential abusers. Refuse to go alone to any meeting you are concerned about. Whatever the bait is, don't fall in the trap. Sometimes walking away is the best thing you can do, and the only way you can protect yourself.

Over 1 year passed from "Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop", press conferences of Johnny's side were only 2 times last autumn, besides those were so dishonest.

Japanese beneficiaries such as showbiz or TV channels or ad corporations were just waiting for "fade away" of this serious scandal at society. 

And, they or this Japanese society chose immediate profit and entertainment that ignore and trample on victim, unfortunately and shamelessly.

The real scandal, which has largely been ignored in Japan, must be that the Japanese media largely knew what was happening the whole time and chose to ignore it. There will always be people like Kitagawa or Weinstein who use their position for sex, but that the media chose not to report it until the BBC did is really bad.

The legal system will continue to protect the rich and powerful from their victims. Any 'reforms' will be token gestures that make little difference. The rich and powerful are allowed to be predators. The rest of us are considered prey.

True as that certainly is, I often wonder if there is ever much cynicism or rather scepticism in Japan that undeserving power distorts the economic, justice and political systems and reaps its own rewards. Such views are rife in rather mainstream fora, even the media, elsewhere but even if they are held in private in Japan they don't seem to populate the media or general opinion to the same extent. Of course, power tries to pull the arrant nonsense that we are all pulling together in our own countries but it is engrained ideology in Japan and only infrequently publicly challenged. There is much less resistance to cynicism regarding the acts of foreigners, of course.