The men who came forward to allege they were sexually abused as teenagers by Japanese boy band producer Johnny Kitagawa now have a powerful listener: the United Nations.
Seven men appear at a news conference on their talks with the U.N. Working Group on Business and Human Rights about the sexual abuse on children that allegedly happened at Johnny & Associates at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 4, 2023. From left, anonymous man who was identified by surname Hayashi, Yasunobu Shiga, Kazuya Nakamura, Junya Hiramoto, Shimon Ishimaru, Aiimasa Nihongi and another man who was identified only as Izumi. Damilola Olawuyi, chair of the U.N.
Junya Hiramoto, one of seven men who talked with Olawuyi’s team, was moved to tears by the U.N. official's remarks.Pichamon Yeophantong, a fellow member of the U.N. group who appeared with Olawuyi at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, urged the Japanese government to do more. A full report is set to be presented to the U.N. Human Rights Council in June, which will include recommendations for change.
Kitagawa was never charged. He was revered over the years, although allegations about abuse popped up now and then, only to be eventually shrugged off. After a BBC documentary about Kitagawa aired this year, musician Kauan Okamoto spoke in April at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Tokyo, the first person in decades to make such allegations under his real name.
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