Just watched the BBC documentary on Johnny Kitagawa. If you have been watching jdoramas for years, you would have heard of the Johnny Kitagawa rumours and how it was covered up and lawsuit with Shukan Bunshun. Nothing in the documentary is new information except watching the survivors/victims talk about their experience and their shocking responses to it and how people use super polite language to describe the allegations.
The reverence to Johnny Kitagawa and complete refusal to be angry or willing to pay the price for fame. It got me thinking about all the parents who wanted their kids to be Johnnys knowing what would happen to their kids. I guess its parents using their kids to lift them out of poverty.
I was amazed the reporter managed to get 3 people to speak on record and it was so confronting. I encourage everyone to watch it and its the youtube video on the top. Clips are up on BBC news Japan and I am just reading the comments on the video. As the comments say, Japanese media is not really free and there is a lot of collusion between news and entertainment companies. You can read an article on ABC here.
Edit: Looks like another Johnny has spoken out:
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