Tokio pop group member removed from TV show over past conduct

‘could be considered sexual harassment’…..I’d have thought it either is or isn’t sexual harassment? Once all the facts come to life, this statement might come back to haunt them.

In a statement of apology, he said that "my lack of awareness for the situation I am in, my naivety, my arrogance and my inappropriate behavior have caused everything."

50 years old, in an industry that has had far too many incidents of sexual harassments and worse, and the best thing he can come up with is this for an excuse?

I hope he never returns, his arrogance is just incredulous!

could be considered sexual harassment’…..I’d have thought it either is or isn’t sexual harassment? Once all the facts come to life, this statement might come back to haunt them.

It's just speculation, and the facts have "come to life", just not to light, and nothing will haunt anyone if he stays out of the light, and pays enough hush money.

involving popular former TV host Masahiro Nakai.

Let's keep it real, "former" lead member of the popular Johnny's group SMAP.

If you are 50 years old and still in a "boy" band, it is time to move on.

Most of this industry has these arrogant and abusive characters. My friend worked for Nippon TV about twenty years ago and she told me she went through a lot of hard times dealing with these untalentos. She quit and came back here to her hometown after about a decade.

Nakai and Kokubun are just two of what everyone already knows about. The term "come to light" is a euphemism for "being called out and potentially being sued for sexual and power harrassment."

Your article refers to Masahiro Nakai being involved in nothing more than sexual misconduct.

I would have thought colluding with colleagues to entrap and isolate a vulnerable young woman in a room for Nakai to attempt to sexually assault a woman is a little more than "misconduct".

Let's not forget the following too..

Fuji Television Network Inc. and its regional affiliates were reported to have expected losses of approximately 1.3 billion to 1.4 billion yen (roughly $8.35 million to $8.99 million USD) by March 2025 due to the Masahiro Nakai's debiant behavior. Fuji TV revised its net profit forecast for the fiscal year, lowering it to 9.8 billion yen from 29 billion yen, reflecting a significant drop of about 74% from the previous term’s net profit of 37 billion yen, with advertising revenue expected to fall by 23.3 billion yen.

All due to "sexual misconduct" hey?

Sankei Sports printed his "apology" today on their front page.

As another poster pointed out here the so-called "apology" was all about himself and not one word about the victims of his alleged sexual harassment or the women's lives and careers he probably ruined.

An arrogant man to put it mildly.

It would be nice if we never hear his name again.

"my lack of awareness for the situation I am in, my naivety, my arrogance and my inappropriate behavior have caused everything."

I made a computer animated docu about this abusive activity for a US government agency back in 1996. Shortly after completing it, the band REM fired their manager for uncouth sexist emails, sick jokes and 'dikpix' on their email accounts.

And this nerd should know better, esp. since he's 50.

A Japanese friend told me that rumors going around online are saying that what he did was that he videotaped himself naked and sent it to various staff members and demanded that those staff members sent him naked videos of themselves. Not sure if it’s true? But it seems to collaborate other rumors on fan pages.

It's funny, weren't these "Johnny's" members talking about being sexually abused by Johnny, just a few years ago? Looking for all kinds of lawsuits or whatever?

And now all these "Johnny's" getting in trouble for sexual assaults?

What a bunch of hypocrites. Lock them all up.