TOKYO (TR) – Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a former expertise company consultant director for sexually assaulting a feminine underling three years in the past, studies Nippon News Network (Jan. 16).
Sources within the leisure business say that Takuma Yamanaka, 39, faked his background in an effort to work in showbiz.
On two events in August 2023, Yamanaka is suspected of sexually assaulting a girl in her 20s, who was then on the roster of the company, on the company and an lodging facility in Kasukabe City, Saitama Prefecture.
Upon his arrest on suspicion of sexual assault, Yamanaka reportedly denied the costs, saying, “The allegations are true, but I did not coerce [the woman].”
Yamanaka is believed to have exploited his place as company director to take the girl to the lodging facility below the pretense of a “walk,” and dedicated the crimes after they had been alone.
Johnny & Associates
An individual within the leisure business who is aware of Yamanaka properly tells the location for weekly tabloid Josei Jishin that the suspect has faked his background for years.
“Yamanaka has been telling people around him that he is a former member of [talent agency Johnny & Associates],” the insider says. “He claims he was affiliated with [the agency] for eight years, from the age of 12 to 20, and served as a Johnny’s Jr. member, working as a backup dancer for V6 and KinKi Kids [now DOMOTO].”
The supply says Yamanaka has additionally beforehand given media interviews through which he mentioned he was in the identical class as singer Kazuya Kamenashi and that he was imagined to debut as a member of NEWS.
“However, when some media outlets interviewed SMILE-UP. Inc. [the successor to Johnny & |Associates], they discovered that Yamanaka had no prior affiliation with the agency,” the sources says.
The sources goes on to say that Yamanaka used faked background to skillfully court docket ladies aspiring to a profession within the leisure business.
“Yamanaka, who founded an entertainment agency in 2014, would ‘scout’ women through social media and streaming apps,” the supply says. According to ladies who met him after being approached, at first they felt they couldn’t belief him in any respect. After all, he’s a fats middle-aged man, and regarded nothing like a expertise from Johnny & Associates.”
However, he recounted unusually lifelike anecdotes from his time within the business. “So, they gradually began to believe him,” the supply says.