{"id":58906,"date":"2023-10-02T17:38:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/j-pop-talent-agency-johnny-associates-change-name-sexual-abuse-scandal"},"modified":"2023-10-02T17:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T08:38:30","slug":"j-pop-agency-johnny-associates-to-change-name-amid-sexual-abuse-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58906","title":{"rendered":"J-pop agency Johnny &amp; Associates to change name amid sexual abuse scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese talent agency to create new firm to manage artists as it tries to distance itself from disgraced founder<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese talent agency Johnny &amp; Associates, whose late founder has been accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/30\/niece-of-j-pop-mogul-johnny-kitagawa-should-resign-over-abuse-allegations-panel-says\">sexually abusing hundreds of boys and young men<\/a>, will change its name and establish a new firm to manage upcoming artists, as it struggles to repair its battered reputation.<\/p>\n<p>The agency\u2019s president, Noriyuki Higashiyama, told a televised press conference on Monday that the company would be renamed Smile-Up, as part of its attempts to distance itself from its disgraced founder, Johnny Kitagawa.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/02\/j-pop-talent-agency-johnny-associates-change-name-sexual-abuse-scandal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese talent agency to create new firm to manage artists as it tries to distance itself from disgraced founderThe Japanese talent agency Johnny &amp; Associates, whose late founder has been accused of sexually abusing hundreds of boys and young men,&#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":[41,6,88,2272,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-japan","category-music-industry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58906","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=58906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58907,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58906\/revisions\/58907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}