The idol phenomenon in Japan, which emerged in the 1970s, highlights young artists, often teenage girls, who sing and dance ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - When police in Japan's old historic capital of Kyoto nabbed three men this summer for buying child pornography DVDs online, they made history: for the first time, someone in the ...

A former teen idol said on Wednesday he was sexually assaulted repeatedly by Johnny Kitagawa, the founder of Japan's biggest boyband empire, in a rare public allegation against the late mogul. The ...

BEIJING: A 17-year-old Japanese idol was dismissed for a “serious violation of rules” after observant online viewers spotted a man’s reflection on a plastic cap in a photo she posted. Azu Fujisaki was ...

Fukada's new film stars former idol Kyoko Saito and is based on real cases of Japanese idols being sued by their own management agencies for violating so-called "no relationship" clauses in their ...

A 17-year-old Japanese idol was dismissed for a “serious violation of rules” after observant online viewers spotted a man’s reflection on a plastic cap in a photo she posted. Azu Fujisaki was a member ...

Opinions on social media were split regarding Fujisaki's situation. Azu Fujisaki, a 17-year-old member of the Japanese idol group Heroines Research Students, has been dismissed from the group ...