Smile-Up Inc., the company formerly known as Johnny & Associates Inc., announced that its new name will be Starto Entertainment and has selected Atsushi Fukuda as its president. Yoshihiko Inohara, ...
The new company that has taken over the talent management business from the former Johnny & Associates Inc. (now Smile-Up Inc.), which has been embroiled in a massive sex abuse scandal, has started ...
A U.S. court has ordered X to disclose information on fake Starto Entertainment profiles that aimed to steal credit card information from fans, the talent agency said Wednesday. Starto Entertainment ...
NHK said Thursday that it will resume using TV personalities and performers from Starto Entertainment, an offshoot of the former Johnny & Associates talent agency that inherited its entertainment ...
Following a spectacular sold-out performance at Tokyo Dome, STARTO ENTERTAINMENT’s annual New Year’s Eve extravaganza, "COUNTDOWN CONCERT 2025–2026 STARTO to MOVE," is now available for global ...
Serious Reforms or a Simple Façade? On March 7, 2023, the BBC aired a documentary titled Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, the first TV program to publicly expose Johnny Kitagawa’s sexual abuse ...
Johnny & Associates, the Japanese talent agency that has been embroiled in a huge sexual abuse scandal, is rebranding itself as Starto Entertainment. The name is derived from the words ‘star’ and ‘to’ ...