{"id":55143,"date":"2023-05-15T19:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T10:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/15\/japanese-talent-agency-apologises-over-claims-founder-sexually-abused-boys"},"modified":"2023-05-15T19:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T10:31:41","slug":"japanese-talent-agency-apologises-over-claims-founder-sexually-abused-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55143","title":{"rendered":"Japanese talent agency apologises over claims founder sexually abused boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Kitagawa\u2019s niece issues apology to men who have made abuse claims while not commenting on veracity of allegations<\/p>\n<p>The president of one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s most powerful talent agencies has apologised over allegations that the firm\u2019s late founder and pop impresario, Johnny Kitagawa, sexually abused multiple boys.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnny-associates.co.jp\/news\/info-700\/\">video and statement<\/a> released on Sunday evening, Julie Fujishima, Kitagawa\u2019s niece, issued the apology to young men who had stepped forward with abuse claims, although she did not comment on the veracity of the allegations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/15\/japanese-talent-agency-apologises-over-claims-founder-sexually-abused-boys\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny Kitagawa\u2019s niece issues apology to men who have made abuse claims while not commenting on veracity of allegationsThe president of one of Japan\u2019s most powerful talent agencies has apologised over allegations that the firm\u2019s late founder and pop i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1032],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-pop-and-rock"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55144,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55143\/revisions\/55144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}