Johnny Kitagawa and the Code of Omerta in Japanese Entertainment

Abstrac t: Claims of sexual assault versus the pop Svengali are symbolic of a show business that checks out pop celebrities as non reusable items and sublimates their sexuality and originality to the needs of popularity.

Keywords: Johnny & &Associates, sexual assault, censorship, J-Pop

Half a life time divides the initially and latest public case of sexual assault versus popSvengali Johnny Kitagawa In 1988, Koji Kita of Four Leaves, one of the earliest effective teams to arise from Kitagawa’s ability firm, Johnny & & Associates, charged Kitagawa of sexually exploiting him and various other male adolescent students (Kita, 1988). Kita’s publication Hikari Genji e triggered a string of various other complaints. Ryo Nakatani, an additional previous participant of Johnny’s Junior, the secure of budding celebrities that Kitagawa carefully picked and grown, released a publication (1989) which asserted that Nakatani had actually been …