Rheos, which manages a popular fund called Hifumi, holds 5.12% of Fuji Media shares after building its stake from Jan. 20 to ...

It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a ...

The catalyst for the crisis at Fuji was a report by a local tabloid in December that a prominent TV host sexually harassed a woman. The star, Masahiro Nakai, acknowledged ‘trouble’ for which he ...

Fuji Television Network Inc. President Kenji Shimizu meets the press in Tokyo on Jan. 30, 2025, over alleged sexual misconduct by former Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai and the broadcaster's alleged ...

A major U.S. shareholder of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. demanded the resignation of Hisashi Hieda, saying the long-time executive is ultimately responsible for the series of problems plaguing the company ...

TOKYO (AP) — The president and chairperson ... The scandal centers on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan’s once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly settlement with a woman ...

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo movement told AFP in the wake of the scandal surrounding celebrity Masahiro Nakai ...

Japan's Fuji Media said on Monday its chairman and the head of its TV unit would step down immediately amidst a probe into ...

A sex scandal involving famous Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai and Fuji Television Network Inc. has exposed systemic governance and a ...

TOKYO -- What started as a sexual misconduct scandal by a former pop idol in Japan has turned into a corporate governance disaster, with Fuji Television Network being abandoned by corporate ...

The shake-up at the television station follows allegations that former J-pop star Masahiro Nakai sexually harassed a woman while he was working for the broadcaster as a television host.

The president and chairman of Fuji Television Network Inc stepped down Monday to take responsibility for a scandal involving popular TV host Masahiro Nakai ... officials of the Tokyo-based company ...