Another former member of Japan’s prime male expertise company Johnny & Associates Inc mentioned Tuesday he was sexually abused as a young person by the agency’s late founder Johnny Kitagawa, with the scandal resulting in an apology by the present president.
“When I was about 13, I was sexually abused around two times,” Yasushi Hashida, now a dancer and actor, advised a Diet listening to he was invited to attend by the principle opposition, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan.
Hashida, 37, got here ahead with the allegations of abuse after Kauan Okamoto, a 26-year-old former member of Johnny & Associates, did so at a press convention in April. Okamoto, a Japanese-Brazilian singer and songwriter, was additionally on the listening to.
The allegations surrounding Kitagawa have garnered worldwide consideration after the BBC aired a documentary in March that included interviews with individuals moreover Okamoto, who mentioned they’d been sexually abused by the late music mogul.
The revelation finally led Julie Keiko Fujishima, the present president of the corporate and a niece of Kitagawa, to launch a video and a written apology on Sunday in a uncommon public look.
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