On July 9, 2019, Johnny Kitagawa, president of Janis Offices, died of illness in the hospital, and his last words to the world were: I continue to cultivate talents who can inherit my will, so that I and my employees can bring happiness to everyone in the world through entertainment.
If we really understand what Kitagawa did and his life deeds, we can fully appreciate the horror of this last word.
Johnny Kitagawa was born in Los Angeles in 1931 and is an authentic Japanese-American. After the outbreak of the Pacific War, the United States and Japan declared war, the Japanese in the United States were controlled, and the Kitagawa family was detained in a california shelter.
After the war, Kitagawa followed his sister back to Japan. And got a very interesting job.
Acted as a translator on the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. This department is very interesting, not only involved in local government affairs, but also responsible for espionage and intelligence work.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, Kitagawa as a small soldier in the U.S. Army went to the Korean Peninsula, after the war, with the demobilization and resettlement fee for veterans to go to the International Faculty of Sophia University for further study, during the university he organized a lot of performances and other arts activities, and even formed his own band, gradually expanded his contacts around the art world, accumulated a lot of useful artist management experience, and his entertainment operation ability appeared.
In 1954, something big happened that changed the strategic vision of the United States toward Japan. When the U.S. military experimented with a hydrogen bomb on a bikini reef in the Pacific, it caused casualties among 23 Japanese sailors nearby, and Japanese men admired the samurai spirit, and even after the defeat in World War II, the violent worship of Japanese men was still not eliminated, and militarism still floated over the Japanese island. The new government, made up of Japanese war criminals, still gives Americans a headache.
The death of the Japanese crew provoked hostility and resistance to the United States in Japan, and seeing that another round of anti-American enthusiasm was about to take shape, the United States began a long-term plan to transform Japanese ideas and culture.
In 1962, Kitagawa claimed to have been influenced by the film West End Story and formed the Janis Office. He selected four people from the baseball team, directly used the name of the baseball team, and formed one of the firm's earliest male idol groups, Johnnys.
The artists of the Janis Office have long been active in the U.S. military community in Japan. At a time when the United States was using mass media to promote pro-American culture throughout Japan, the senior leaders of Japan's five major media had unclear personal relationships with the U.S. government (especially the U.S. CIA).
For example, Class-A war criminal Takeho Ogata served as the general manager of the Asahi Shimbun, and another war criminal, Masatoshi Matsutaro, founded Japan's largest Yomiuri Shimbun with the support of the Americans.
Kitagawa's subsequent actions are likely to be related to this renovation plan. Artists at Kitagawa Office also had more opportunities to take to the stage.
Japan is a country with a relatively heavy machismo, the status of women is very low, and the male stars they like are tough guys similar to Ken Takakura, full of masculinity. However, the artists at Janis's firm behave completely differently, all of them are young, thin, soft-looking, and they look completely uninsuring
With the support of the American-controlled media, especially the popularity of television stations, Kitagawa's artists quickly became popular and became a new force in the entertainment industry
In 1965, the firm's first group, Johnnys, took to the stage of the Red and White Song Club in Japan, and the four of them wore tuxedos and top hats, as if they had crossed over from the movie [West End Story], singing and dancing, and engraving the word "idol group" in the hearts of the audience with such a flexible image.
Since then, the Janis office has been out of control. Well-known male idol groups such as Four Leaves, Hiromi Go, Tsutomu Tano, Shibu Persimmon Team, Shonen Team, and Hikari GENJI were launched, but because Kitagawa insisted on brisk stage performances in the early days, the company's development was not ideal.
Japan's real entry into the era of feminine idols was after the 1980s, with the take-off of the Japanese economy, Showa's last tough guy Ken Takakura was no longer attractive, and Janis launched SMAP, TOKIO, KinKi Kids, Arashi, Taki yo Wing, KAT-TUN, Hey! Say! Combinations such as JUMP have almost monopolized the Japanese male idol group industry almost single-handedly.
Through tv dramas, variety shows, and music performances, SMAP, led by Takuya Kimura, a subsidiary of the firm, has gained a unique position in Japan and asia as a whole, and has become a very affinity among stars.
In 1995, a Japanese cosmetics brand invited Takuya Kimura to shoot an advertisement for its new lipstick, in which Takuya Kimura caused an uproar among women for a while with her feminine eyes and sexy smearing. Endorsement lipstick sold 3 million sticks in two months. The power of male femininity culture is so great that other firms and trainees have learned it. The position of the feminine style in the positioning of the boy band has become unshakable
In the same year, the national idol Hideaki Takizawa participated in the interview of the Janis office. Before that, Hideaki Takizawa was a child from a poor family, who could only wear short-sleeved shorts to school in winter, and could not afford to buy pencils. It was during this interview that Kitagawa took a fancy to him and asked him and another boy, Imai Wing, to form the boy group "Taki yo Wing", which became a popular national idol group.
National idol Tomohisa Yamashita joined Janis In 1996 and starred in popular works such as "Deception Hunter", "Marriage Proposal", "Zero Second Shot", "Code Blue" and other popular works, his name is well known, and in 2015, he starred in "Nine to Five Handsome Monks Fall in Love with Me", and his popularity reached its peak.
There are many ordinary Japanese boys like Hideaki Takizawa and Tomohisa Yamashita. Hideaki Takizawa's story is a microcosm of their presence at the Janis office.
For teenagers, Kitagawa is the key that opens the door to their dream stage. Entering Janis means standing in the center of the storm of the younger generation.
Janis & Associates receives 30,000 resumes a month and nearly 400,000 letters a year. At the most, you can even receive 1.5 million envelopes.
More and more children dream of becoming artists under the Janis studio, and many parents are close to madness about this matter, even sending photos of their two-month-old children to the firm.
By 2011, Kitagawa had become "the one who produced the most concerts", "the one who trained the most gold number one singers", and "the person who produced the most gold number one hot songs". According to statistics, Kitagawa has produced 8419 concerts in ten years, and 439 singles of its 47 groups of artists have won the chart, with a total sales of nearly 150 million copies.
There is no doubt that Tachikawa succeeded. At the beginning of its establishment, South Korea's SM Company also imitated Kitagawa's model, scavenging for boys who were beautiful and female, and after the training was completed, they formed idol groups and sold them to the outside world. In 1996, SM also successfully launched its own male idol group, H.O.T
Because of the H.O.T fire, more and more companies have been imitating since then, and more idol groups such as Oriental Shenqi and Super Junior have been produced. Their biggest common denominator is that they are beautiful, weak, and feminine
In the past 40 years, with the expansion of Japanese and Korean cultures, the modern Asian media has become ubiquitous "female pao", "feminine man", "childlike man". And these images are also the perfect man images that modern women admire.
However, I often walk on the side of the road, where there are shoes that are not wet. According to the testimony of 12 boys, kitagawa's "Little Fresh Meat" music group manufacturing factory was founded more than 50 years ago, since the establishment of his first band in the 1960s, he began to rape boys, and then hundreds of boys passed through his system every year, presumably he raped at least hundreds of boys.
The final verdict of the Tokyo court found that the reports of the Sexual Assault of the Janis teenagers by Kitagawa were true.
The 8 million yen compensation spread on the Internet was caused by the janis teen idol reported in the weekly Bunchun that he often drank alcohol in the dormitory, and smoked inconsistencies with the facts.
A Japanese journalist once secretly studied Kitagawa's true history, his relationship with the CIA in the United States. As a result, the reporter was intimidated by the Japanese underworld, and was even imprisoned in a small black house for more than 50 hours, and even his family was threatened by the underworld.
At 4:00 p.m. on July 9, 2019, Kitagawa died in Tokyo due to subarachnoid hemorrhage caused by a brain aneurysm. According to the official announcement of the Janis firm, "In the end, Johnny Sang, surrounded by his beloved children, came to the end of his life. ”
After Kitagawa's death, the vigil and farewell ceremony were only allowed to participate in Janis's artists and trainees, and some Janis groups that had been disbanded for many years, as well as former Janis artists who had quit the show business circle for more than twenty years, came to say a final farewell to Kitagawa.
It was a "farewell ceremony for the family." Kitagawa was able to die surrounded by his carefully cultivated teenagers, and he died without regrets.
Kitagawa may be a part of the Strategic Layout of the United States in Japan, but just like a set of manga drawn by Japanese netizens for him, many Japanese boys like ordinary stones, under his care and cultivation, have become dazzling diamonds, he has made Japanese culture popular all over the world, so that ordinary boys can see the glorious world.
It also perfectly completed the national transformation plan given to him by the beautiful country father.
He devoted his life to guiding Japanese women to worship, like, support, promote, and welcome "Niangpao" to become a "male model" and an "ideal man"
Or convince, brainwash, or mislead men of this race that these "little fresh meats" are women's favorite men, and strong and muscular men are hated by women, making sure that men of this race don't bother to strengthen themselves. Even straight men who want to spend energy on physical shaping will mostly set a goal of being lean.
Whether this culture is good or bad, whether it is a loss or a benefit to the development of the country, I will not expand too much. What I just want to say is that where a country and a nation will go and how spiritual integrity will go is chosen and decided by millions of people.
I hope that the country will be positive and upward, and I hope that our nation will regain its glory.