TOKYO (AP) — Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan’s top TV hosts and a former pop star, said Thursday he was retiring to take responsibility over sexual assault allegations that are part of a wave roiling Japan's entertainment industry and have triggered an avalanche of lost advertising at one of the networks where he worked.

Masahiro Nakai, a popular TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal, said

One of Japan's biggest pop stars and best-known TV hosts, Masahiro Nakai, announced his retirement Thursday over sexual misconduct allegations, reports said, in the latest scandal to rock Japan's

Tokyo Broadcasting Television Inc. (TBS) on Jan. 20 said it will scrap a regular TV program featuring Masahiro Nakai, the celebrity entertainer caught up in a sex scandal.

Toru Ota, a former chief of programming at Fuji Television Network Inc., said he continued hiring Masahiro Nakai despite learning early on about “trouble” between the celebrity and a woman at a dinner party.

In response to reports of a Fuji Television Network Inc. employee's alleged involvement in a scandal surrounding entertainer Masahiro Nakai,

Observers say the former boy band member’s fall from grace echoes music mogul Johnny Kitagawa’s decades of sexual abuse.

Japan's Fuji Television said it will open an investigation into a high-profile sex scandal linked to one of the country's top celebrities.

Dozens of major Japanese companies have pulled their commercials from broadcaster Fuji Television amid allegations company officials tried to cover up a sex scandal involving one of the country’s most

Advertisers flee major Japanese TV channel amid sexual assault claims against star presenter - Scandal has raised questions about the industry’s seemingly lax attitude to sexual crimes

A growing number of top brands are pulling adverts from major Japanese broadcaster Fuji Television over sexual misconduct allegations against a host and

TOKYO: One of Japan's biggest boy band stars and best-known television hosts announced his retirement on Thursday (Jan 23) after being accused of sexual misconduct, Japanese media reported.