Japanese music agency Johnny & Associates, whose late founder is accused of sexually abusing hundreds of boys over decades, will be rebranding and splitting into two companies, with one focusing on identifying and compensating his survivors.
In September, the powerhouse entertainment company, founded by Johnny Kitagawa in 1975, acknowledged that the businessman and talent manager, who died aged 87 in 2019, had sexually abused hundreds of its signed acts over the course of five decades.
