best known as a member of the now-defunct pop group SMAP, and a woman. Koichi Minato, who also announced the establishment of a new investigation panel led by lawyers, said that while the network ...

Fuji previously denied tabloid reports suggesting one of its employees had arranged the meal where Nakai, a member of the 1990s boy band sensation Smap, met the woman in 2023. The now-disbanded ...

According to the report, Nakai, a former member of boy band SMAP, was supposed to have dinner with a Fuji TV executive and a woman. But the executive backed out at the last minute, leaving Nakai ...

YOKOSUKA, Kanagawa Prefecture—The USS George Washington aircraft carrier arrived at the U.S. naval base here on Nov. 22 for its second deployment to the city. The ship is replacing the USS ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global. Cooking experts, chefs and others involved in the field of food introduce ...

The reports, which emerged last month, said that Masahiro Nakai, a 52-year-old former member of the hugely popular group SMAP, had paid a woman a lump sum of 90 million yen (US$570,000). That was to ...

Travelers flooded airports and major train stations in Japan on Saturday as they departed cities to spend time in their hometowns and elsewhere during the up to nine-day New Year holiday break.

A growing number of Japanese people appear to be breaking with the country's tradition of sending New Year's greeting cards, as rising prices of daily goods are forcing them to cut back on spending.