Kauan Okamoto says Kitagawa evaded justice because victims knew speaking out would end their careers
Johnny Kitagawa, one of the most powerful figures in Japanese entertainment, sexually abused multiple boys but evaded justice because his victims knew speaking out would end their pop careers, according to a former protege who has decided to go public with his allegations., a Japanese-Brazilian singer-songwriter, said Kitagawa had sexually abused him at least 15 times over a four-year period from 2012, when the pop hopeful was aged 15.
“I believe that almost all of the boys who went to stay at Johnny’s place were victims,” Okamoto told reporters at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan on Wednesday. “If you stayed there, you were unlikely to evade him. I would say 100 to 200 boys stayed there on a rotation basis during my four years at the agency.”
Okamoto, one of only a handful of former Johnny & Associates performers who have spoken publicly, said he had stayed at Kitagawa’s apartment about 100 times and had experienced abuse of a similar nature on 15 to 20 occasions by the time he left the agency in 2016.
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