Scandal-Plagued J-Pop Agency Johnny’s Changes Name to Smile-Up ...Middle East

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The Japanese entertainment company that has acknowledged its founder sexually assaulted hundreds of boys over the span of half a century, took a new name on Monday: Smile-Up. It also vowed to focus on compensation for victims of the abuse. Tokyo-based Johnny & Associates, founded in 1975, will eventually fold, but its performers can join an independent company that is being set up, said Noriyuki Higashiyama, the company’s new leader and a former star at Johnny’s, as the company is known. Higashiyama, tapped last month to head the old Johnny’s, will now be president of both Smile-Up and the new company. The new com

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