In a special program about NHK’s Johnny Kitagawa， the broadcaster commented， “We regret that we have failed to fulfill our responsibilities as the media．”
[Model Press = 2024/10/21] On the October 20th broadcast of NHK General TV’s “NHK Special: A Look at the True Nature of the ’Idol Empire’ Built by Johnny Kitagawa” (9pm), a comment from NHK was displayed at the end of the program. Following a report by the British public broadcaster BBC News, Johnny & Associates (now Smile-up.) admitted and apologized for the late Johnny Kitagawa’s sexual assault at a press conference on September 7th of last year, and former president Fujishima Julie Keiko resigned in disgrace. The program mainly featured interviews with acquaintances from that time and people involved in program production, and revealed details about Johnny’s life as an evacuee in Japan, his time in the United States, when he began frequenting talent training schools in Japan again and began to get his foot in the door into entertainment production, and how his agency took off after his popularity on television. The report also revealed that Johnny had been committing sexual assaults since the time of the agency’s predecessor. ◆NHK comments on Johnny Kitagawa’s sexual assault: “The media failed to fulfill its responsibility”
Ratings are important on television, and a program production official said, “There is a stronger tendency than before to become dependent on talents who can get ratings or interest the viewers,” and in 2015, NHK also had a tendency to become dependent, such as having seven groups from the agency appear, the highest number ever. At the end of the program, the following was posted: “On October 16, 2024, NHK announced that it will be possible to request appearances from talents affiliated with STARTO ENTERTAINMENT,” along with a comment from NHK: “We do not believe this issue is over. NHK also reflects on the fact that its awareness and response at the time was insufficient and that it failed to fulfill its responsibilities as the media. The program concluded with the following comment: “We would like to instill in everyone, including our business partners, an attitude of zero tolerance for human rights violations, including sexual assault, and if any new facts come to light, we will verify them through our reporting and programs, in order to fulfill our role as a public broadcaster.” (modelpress editorial department) Information: NHK.
>>1 >”NHK Special” thoroughly investigates Johnny Kitagawa’s reality, unraveling the background of overlooked sexual abuse > ..He has been sexually abusing boys for over half a century, and after the British BBC’s documentary “J-Pop Predators: Hidden Scandal” was released in March 2023, former Johnny’s Jr. member Cowan Okamoto filed a complaint about sexual abuse by Johnny at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in April of the same year. That’s not right. Yamaguchi Tatsuya, Takabatake Yuta, Matsumoto Hitoshi, Hoshino Gen, Bekure, Yamamoto, Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi, and others including Kabuki and Yoshimoto, Abe, Takaichi, Suga, Hatoyama, Ozawa, Noda, Maehara, Ishin, Toys, and Korean-born actors are being turned into sexual assaults against women by Abe-loving Johnny’s, Johnny’s actor homosexual pervert LGBT pillow cases.
>>13 Well, the main culprit, the shota rapist, and the siblings who were the first to protect him are already dead, and the girl who was the top, even if only in name, has taken responsibility. There may still be some responsibility on the part of the veterans who tacitly accepted and encouraged people to sleep with him in order to succeed in the gay Noh world, but I don’t think it’s right that all the talents affiliated with the company should bear the guilt for all eternity.
They say that young girls these days don’t watch TV, but they watch shows with handsome guys on terrestrial TV in real time. Snow Man can fill up the Sapporo Dome.
It’s not just this issue, but it’s interesting how even within NHK there are differences in opinion and attitudes and there is quite a bit of conflict.
>>25 If you watch it properly, it’s a pretty sweet show. Most of it is just a family history, and they don’t mention that there are hardly any spin-offs. They broadcast it as if Start Entertainment was a completely separate company.
>>25 I guess it’s normal for big organizations, but the difference in attitude between the news team and the variety team is probably unique to TV media. However, I think they were quite considerate in yesterday’s program. But the most surprising thing about this is that many of the victims are young people. In the 90s, there were already rumors among children that “you have to sleep with Johnny’s to be popular.” I thought she entered the entertainment industry prepared for that, like a gravure idol who is prepared to sleep with her partner.
Last night, I left the TV on from the Taiga drama, and the vivid testimony of a rape victim on this show made my heart skip a beat, so I turned it off so I wouldn’t develop any weird sexual fetishes.
Far-left activists with ties to NHK employees have destroyed and taken over Johnny’s Entertainment, the agency that NHK relies on. So, naturally, they would like to use the former Johnny’s members once the takeover is complete.
The fact that they made a program for Jr. just for Johnny’s and provided him with a place to have sex for many years, the fact that NHK executives were transferred to their agency, why are these people acting like it’s not their problem? They should investigate the reality of what they’ve done and feature it.
This was an incident that TV magazines couldn’t have done anything about. The major newspapers should have reported it and the police should have taken action.
A company with sales of over 100 billion yen was ruined by the founder’s reckless behavior… but what was created by the founder was destroyed by the founder in the end. In a way, it’s art, isn’t it?
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