The message was a response to his application for compensation from talent agency Smile-Up Inc. (formerly Johnny & Associates Inc.) for sex-abuse victims of agency founder Johnny Kitagawa.

Smile-Up was established to provide compensation to the hundreds of former talent agency members who had been sexually assaulted by Kitagawa, while Starto Entertainment took over the talent ...

Smile Up is responsible for handling the compensation measures for sexual abuse victims of the agency's late founder Kitagawa, and started that process in November 2023. The company will shut down ...

The suit was filed against the Japanese company Smile-Up., which changed its name from Johnny & Associates and is dealing with compensation for sexual abuse by the late founder, Johnny Kitagawa.

"I don't even know who they are," he says. BBC reporter Mobeen Azhar spoke to Smile-Up CEO Noriyuki Higashiyama Johnny Kitagawa, creator of the Japanese boy band phenomenon, died in 2019.

Allegations against Kitagawa, who died in 2019 ... The pop agency renamed itself -SMILE-UP- and said the newly named entity would deal solely with identifying and compensating victims.

24 Dec - Takuya Kimura recently spoke up about his decision to stick with his old company, Johnny & Associates (now known as ...

Tanaka alleges that Kitagawa sexually abused him at a Las Vegas ... Fujishima is currently a director of Smile-Up Inc., the successor company to Johnny & Associates, dedicated to providing redress ...