Former star of J-pop band SMAP Masahiro Nakai resigned after several damning reports and suspicions that broadcasting giant ...

Masahiro Nakai, former member of the Japanese band SMAP and currently serving as a TV host and actor, announced on Thursday ...

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan's top TV hosts and a former pop star, says he is retiring to take responsibility over sexual ...

J-Pop star Masahiro Nakai retires amid sexual misconduct allegations. Brands and TV networks sever ties, triggering industry ...

Japan’s Fuji TV is grappling with a major crisis over its handling of a sexual assault scandal surrounding star presenter ...

Dozens of major Japanese companies have pulled their commercials on Fuji Television amid allegations company officials tried ...

Nakai is a former member of the now-defunct Japanese pop idol group SMAP. The scandal surfaced in December when weekly magazines reported that the 52-year-old celebrity got into "trouble" with the ...

(Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa) TOKYO -- Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the now-defunct idol group SMAP, on Jan. 9 responded over a widely publicized scandal involving a woman, admitting to the ...

SMAP data are currently experiencing a data outage. The SMAP Science Data Systems (SDS), located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is closed and unable to process data ...

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 ...

Emperor Naruhito offered greetings Thursday in his New Year's address, expressing hope for a peaceful year while voicing concern for people affected by natural disasters. Accompanied by his wife ...