Japanese media also confirmed and reported his ... including the one to which Nakai belonged, SMAP. Last Friday, Fuji TV President Koichi Minato acknowledged the company had been aware of the ...

TOKYO: Hugely popular Japanese boy band SMAP will break up at the end of the year, their management said Sunday, saddening their army of fans across Asia and marking the end of an era. The five ...

Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the legendary Japanese pop group SMAP, has been at the center of a shocking sex scandal that has rocked Fuji TV, one of Japan’s major networks. With allegations of a ...

Tokyo, Japan - January 23, 2025 Masahiro Nakai, former member of the Japanese band SMAP and currently serving as a TV host and actor, announced on Thursday his retirement from the entertainment ...

Nakai was a leader of SMAP, a five-member singing and dancing male band, which debuted in 1988 and quickly surged to stardom in Japan and across Asia until it was disbanded in 2016. Major Japanese ...

In recent years, there’s been a trend in anime and light novels towards exhaustively comprehensive titles that meander ...

His agency has produced dozens of boy bands and male idol groups known collectively as Janiizu (Johnny’s), such as SMAP, Shonentai, Arashi and Travis Japan. Born in Aichi Prefecture, Okamoto ...

For months, Japan's entertainment industry has been rocked ... Nakai, who is also a former member of J-pop boy band SMAP, was accused of sexually assaulting a woman at a dinner party in 2023.