{"id":58154,"date":"2023-09-07T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/07\/head-of-johnny-kitagawa-j-pop-agency-resigns-over-sexual-abuse-scandal"},"modified":"2023-09-07T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T10:00:28","slug":"head-of-johnny-kitagawas-j-pop-agency-resigns-over-sexual-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58154","title":{"rendered":"Head of Johnny Kitagawa\u2019s J-pop agency resigns over sexual abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Fujishima, niece of late pop mogul, apologises and acknowledges agency founder\u2019s abuse for first time<\/p>\n<p>The president of Japan\u2019s biggest boyband talent agency has resigned after acknowledging for the first time that its late founder sexually abused aspiring young stars.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s most powerful pop mogul, Johnny Kitagawa, who died in 2019 aged 87, was accused of sexually assaulting multiple teenagers over decades, but evaded justice because his victims feared he would destroy their careers if they spoke out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/07\/head-of-johnny-kitagawa-j-pop-agency-resigns-over-sexual-abuse-scandal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julie Fujishima, niece of late pop mogul, apologises and acknowledges agency founder\u2019s abuse for first timeThe president of Japan\u2019s biggest boyband talent agency has resigned after acknowledging for the first time that its late founder sexually abused &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"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":[41,88,242,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58154","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58155,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58154\/revisions\/58155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}