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"Company XX went bankrupt" that fans talk about all day has really become a reality!
Janis Studio, the largest brokerage company in the Japanese entertainment industry, held a press conference yesterday afternoon to officially announce the news of its company's collapse, and all Japanese TV stations (except TV Tokyo) are broadcasting it live.
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It's another day to witness history.
Witness history again?
The most important content of this press conference is to announce the dissolution of Janis, and then set up a special compensation unit to compensate the victims.
According to the previously established "Victims Investigation Committee", a total of 478 victims have received applications, of which 325 have asked for compensation, and the media speculates that the actual number may be higher.
In order to consider the mood of the victims, the name Janis will also be changed to "Smile Up", which deals with victim compensation, and "Smile Up" will also be disbanded after the compensation is over.
The names related to Janis in Janis's group will also be changed in the future, such as Seki 8 (Kansai Janis 8) and Janis West combination, etc., and the "Janis" element will be removed after winning the opinions of fans and changed to a new group name.
Another key piece of information is that another new company will be formed to replace Janis after that.
The new company will be headed by Noriyuki Higashiyama and Yoshihiko Inohara, who will be in charge of artist management and training.
Noriyuki Higashiyama may be familiar to everyone, a member of the boy idol group Junior Team of Janis.
The Tigers first imitated his group, and "Green Apple Paradise" was a direct cover of "What's Your Name" by the Junior Team.
On the far right is Noriyuki Higashiyama
Later, Noriyuki Higashiyama was mainly active on the stage of TV dramas, such as "The Tale of Genji: The Mystery of a Thousand Years" and the longevity drama "Criminal Police Seven" and so on.
Because of his deep qualifications, fans of the J family affectionately gave him the nickname "The Great Prince".
Yoshihiko Inohara, who is also a Janis idol, may not have heard much of his group V6 Entertainment, but the songs of their group must be familiar to everyone.
Inuyasha's theme song "Change the World" was sung by their group, and the Diga Ultraman's Human Body Daigu is also played by V6 member Hiroshi Nagano.
Yoshihiko Inohara, who has also been developing in film and television dramas in recent years, not only starred in the 12-season longevity drama "Warning Search Section 9 Series", but also starred in the movie "The 461st Bento" with his junior Michieda Junyu.
The two idols are now leaders behind the scenes and were key figures in the collapse of the Empire State Building, starting with the BBC-produced documentary Predators: The Secret Scandal of Japanese Pop in March.
The sexual assault scandal that shocked the world
Janis, arguably, is the originator of the entire Asian idol culture.
Janis's past and present
From Takuya Kimura, Jun Matsumoto, Kazuya Kamanashi in the early years, to Meguro Ren, Michieda Junsuke, etc., who have become popular in recent years, most of the Japanese male idols we know are their artists.
Founder Jeni Kitagawa is also known as the founder of Japanese idols.
Every year, hundreds of boys with idols dream of submitting their resumes to Janis Office. If you pass the resume, you will have the opportunity to become Johnny's Junior (JR), or trainee.
After entering Janis, the teenagers enter the company's dormitory life and start their idol journey, and the first dormitory is Kitagawa himself's house.
In the BBC documentary, three whistleblowers who used to be trainees in Janis all mentioned that President Kitagawa would do something to them in the dormitory.
Whistleblower A said that he was only 15 years old when he entered Janis, and was called by Kitagawa to take a shower in the bathroom on the first night he checked into the dormitory. When Kitagawa took off his pants, he refused, but Kitagawa was terrified by his subsequent silence.
In the end, he was completely stripped naked by Kitagawa and put in the bathtub, and "he washed my whole body like a doll."
After taking a bath, Kitagawa asked A to watch TV with him, molesting him in the name of massage while watching, and this process continued intermittently until dawn.
There was not only one child in the dormitory that night, and after the incident, the other children in the dormitory said to him, "Your dream is shattered, but if you don't accept it, you can't be famous!" ”
"Will be moved by Kitagawa hands" is not only something that every Janis teenager defaults to, but even the parents of the teenagers know.
Another whistleblower B said that "the fact that Kitagawa is gay is tacitly known in Japan", but these parents rushed to send their children in, and even parents would say to their children, "You better cock your ass high when facing Kitagawa ".
Long before this documentary, Wen Chun had exposed these "secrets" of Kitagawa in 1999.
At that time, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy walked into the Wenchun newspaper office and told reporters about Kitagawa sexually assaulting him more than ten or twenty times.
At first, Wen Chun's reporters thought that the teenager was lying, but later several teenagers told similar stories to reporters, and reporters began to believe their words.
The teenagers said that there were many beds in the dormitory side by side, and they could clearly hear what was happening in the next bed, and Kitagawa would sleep bed by bed, and the teenagers could not escape even if they pretended to sleep.
The reporter still has the layout of Janis's dormitory drawn by the teenagers according to his memory.
When Wenchun's reporters published these stories in anger, they received no response.
Japan's mainstream media were threatened by Janis and collectively lost their voice. It was as if it had never been there.
Later, Janis also sued Wen Chun for damage to his reputation, claiming more than 100 million yen.
Wen Chun lost the case in the first instance, and Wen Chun continued to appeal against him. The second-instance ruling found that Wen Chun's reports on homosexuality and sexual harassment were credible and cancelled this part of the compensation, but Wen Chun still had to pay Janis 1.2 million yen.
Since then, Janis has formed a bond with Wen Chun, cutting off all cooperation between its artists and Wen Chun, and Wen Chun is not to be outdone, as long as it is a scandal about Janis, it will be made a special explosion.
In addition to Wen Chun, the former Janis artist is also actively speaking.
Kita Kōji, a member of the former Janis group "Yotsuba", published a book as early as 1988 detailing his repeated sexual assault by Kitagawa .
The title of that book is "To Hikari Genji", Hikari Genji was Janis's most popular idol group at that time, and Kitakoji seems to want to persuade his juniors to stay away from Kitagawa and protect themselves from the position of their predecessors.
There is also a reserve member of Hikari Genji, Masago Kiyama, who also published a book called "To Smap, and to All Those Who Have Been Sexually Harassed by Janisnis" in the name of paying tribute to his predecessors.
Someone previously broke the news that Kitagawa would inject estrogen into underage boys, just to make them develop slower and stay in their tender teenage years for a longer time, which is also mentioned in Masago Kiyama's book.
He said that he saw a syringe on the president's office table, and because he was afraid of being beaten with estrogen, he kept avoiding the practice room and office, and finally he was kicked out of the debut list.
These voices have not received mainstream attention, but are considered by the public to be fake news that creates topics and attracts attention.
Until Kitagawa died in 2019, the Japanese mainstream media was still singing the praises of him as an excellent producer, and no media mentioned his sexual assault scandal.
There is more than one predator
After the release of the BBC documentary, it finally attracted global attention and discussion.
Originally, Janis still pretended that nothing had happened like the previous twenty years, but this time, former Janis artists continued to come forward and accuse Kitagawa of sexual assault.
After public opinion fermented, Keiko Fujishima (the only daughter of founder Jeni Kitagawa sister Mary Kitagawa ) said that a third-party investigation committee would be established to thoroughly investigate the matter.
At the end of August this year, the results of the three-month investigation were officially released, and Kitagawa was established for sexual assault, and he violated hundreds of victims for more than 40 years.
Later, Janis held a press conference to acknowledge this fact. Keiko Fujishima stepped down as president and was succeeded by Noriyuki Higashiyama.
Ironically, the newly appointed president, Noriyuki Higashiyama, has also been exposed to rumors of sexual harassment.
Masago Kiyama wrote about being sexually harassed by Noriyuki Higashiyama in his book.
According to the book, Noriyuki Higashiyama had a high prestige among Janis artists in his early years because he was loved by Kitagawa .
"He was only a teenager at the time, but just like Kitagawa son, he already had the momentum of the second generation of president, did not treat everyone as friends, only gave all kinds of orders, and did things that others could not imagine."
For example, use a massage stick to put between the legs of the teenagers and stimulate them with their feet, and happily watch the teenagers react physiologically.
While everyone was eating, he put his own JJ on the plate in front of him and commanded, "Eat my sausage!" (俺のソーセージを食え)
At the press conference on September 7, when the reporter asked the Dongshan reporter with the word "sausage", he did not even directly deny it, but only vaguely replied: "Even if I think back, there are many things I don't remember, maybe I did it, I may not have done it."
Then "My Sausage" appeared on the hot search in Japan.
After that, major advertisers announced the suspension of endorsement contracts, TV stations also reduced cooperation, and the "Japanese Spring Festival Gala" "Red and White Song Party" that Janis artists must attend every year did not send out invitations this year.
It was even boycotted by peers, and Takuya Kimura's "Teaching Field" suffered a postponement of filming because many actors refused to act with him because they did not want to destroy the image.
It was precisely because the public was dissatisfied with Janis's handling that there was this second press conference yesterday.
The press conference did not save any prestige, and after the press conference, its artist Junichi Okada announced that he would quit Janis at the end of November.
It is no longer clear that this is the first Janis artist to announce his withdrawal this year, and it is estimated that there will be people to follow behind, and the collapse of the idol building has become a foregone conclusion.
Sister E's epilogue:
The fall of Janis, the idol empire, is not because of this documentary, but because of the decades of indifference to victims and connivance of the injured.
In the past, people turned a blind eye not only to the silence of Janis's authority, but also because Japanese culture avoided the topic of homosexuality and was deeply influenced by the "culture of shame". They will feel that this is a personal matter and should not be talked about, or even reluctant to believe the reports.
The reason why this BBC documentary can cause a sensation, in addition to the persuasiveness of the film itself, in the final analysis, is that everyone's concept is changing.
Now, even if the Janis Company erases the existence of Jeni Kitagawa from its name, it cannot erase the fact that the company's criminals harbor is from the root.
It is only that the initiator of hatred has turned into ashes, and there is no need to accept any punishment, such a company, don't talk about any reform and innovation, just go bankrupt, don't come out to harm teenagers and children again.
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