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 ...

Sponsors are pulling ads from Fuji Television Network Inc. programs over a sexual misconduct scandal involving TV host Masahiro Nakai, best known as a member of the now-defunct pop group SMAP ...

Looking back on those days, a 43-year-old Korean language teacher said she “would clandestinely enjoy works of X Japan and SMAP.” The public was long divided over whether to officially accept ...