<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">and this is an excellent Nèojaponisme’s thread on twitter on how “<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica;">Johnny Kitagawa of Johnny's Jimusho was incredibly detrimental to quality of music in the Japanese music industry over the last four decades”: </span><div><br></div><div><a href="https://twitter.com/neojaponisme/status/1148766664952934400?s=21">https://twitter.com/neojaponisme/status/1148766664952934400?s=21</a><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Matteo Boscarol<br></span><div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ボスカロル マッテオ</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">記憶ただ陽炎のゆらめき</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Documentary in Japan and Asia</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com">http://storiadocgiappone.wordpress.com</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px;">- Film writer for Il Manifesto</div></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><a href="http://ilmanifesto.it">http://ilmanifesto.it</a></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><br></div><div style="line-height: 24px;"><br></div><div><span style="line-height: 24px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jul 19, 2019, at 19:02, Markus Nornes via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Mark Schilling writes the straight dope on notorious Johnny Kitamura, who recently passed away. I didn’t read the papers since the death, but I did see several television tributes to the man and all of them were hagiographic cleansings. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mark’s piece is unflinching. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">“<span style="font-family:"Graphik Web",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">What the mass media elided, however, were allegations that Kitagawa sexually abused the young male talents in his employ. The first to make such charges, in graphically explicit diaries published in 1988, was a former member of the Four Leaves, a group that Kitagawa launched in 1968 and was his first to achieve chart-topping success. Another former Johnny’s talent made similar claims in a 1996 tell-all book, saying he had witnessed Kitagawa forcing a boy to engage in sex in an agency dormitory.</span></div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:"Graphik Web",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px"></p><div dir="auto">The culmination, however, was a 1999 series of articles in the weekly tabloid Shukan Bunshun that described sexual abuse of ten teenaged male talents. A Parliamentary hearing examined the claims, but Kitagawa denied everything and sued the magazine.”</div><p></p><div dir="auto"><div><a href="https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/johnny-kitagawa-power-abuse-japanese-media-omerta-1203271575/">https://variety.com/2019/film/asia/johnny-kitagawa-power-abuse-japanese-media-omerta-1203271575/</a></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The other story here is whether Johnny’s death will lead to a loosening of the grip the agencies have over both their talent and the entertainment business itself.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">M</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div>
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