SMAP member Masahiro Nakai, 37, will serve as the main commentator on TBS during coverage of the upcoming Vancouver Olympics, the network announced this week. Nakai has held the position since the ...

TOKYO – One of Japan’s biggest pop stars and best-known television hosts, Masahiro Nakai, announced his retirement on Jan 2 3 over sexual misconduct allegations, reports said, in the latest scandal to ...

TOKYO — 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 ...

Top brass at Japanese network giant Fuji Television and its parent company have stepped down following explosive allegations involving former SMAP frontman Masahiro Nakai and claims of a corporate ...

Scenes featuring Masahiro Nakai, a former member of the pop idol group SMAP, were cut from a TV program aired Tuesday by Nippon Television Network Corp., the broadcaster said, amid magazine reports of ...

Entertainer Masahiro Nakai, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, issued a public apology for “the trouble” with a woman, but said it has been resolved and will not further interfere with his ...

SMAP singer Masahiro Nakai, 39, will play the main character in the TBS drama "ATARU" (which will air Sunday nights from 9 p.m. from April). It will be his first starring role in a TV drama since ...

Masahiro Nakai is seen in Tokyo's Minato Ward in this February 2020 file photo. (Mainichi/Naoaki Hasegawa) TOKYO -- Masahiro Nakai, an entertainer and former leader of the now-defunct popular Japanese ...

TOKYO — The head of Japan's Fuji Television network announced plans on Friday for an independent investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against one of the country's top celebrities and ...