2023-09-25 21:00:00
At a press conference where Johnny & Associates Inc. admitted to sexual assault by founder Johnny Kitagawa (who passed away in 2019), new president Noriyuki Higashiyama said, “I had heard rumors regarding sexual assault.” A former member of Johnny’s Jr. has doubts. He testified to this newspaper that Mr. Higashiyama was nearby when the attack occurred, saying, “I should have known that Mr. Johnny was trying to attack me,” he said angrily. (Imochi Mochizuki)
◆“I should have known that Mr. Johnny was trying to attack me.”
“I mightn’t help but scream at the TV screen, “You’re lying! Don’t lie!” When the top executives say something different like that, no one can say the truth anymore.” A man in his 50s, a former junior, was angry at Higashiyama’s “rumorous” remarks made at a press conference on the 7th of this month.
Before the idol group Shonentai, of which Higashiyama is a member, debuted, the man stayed at a training camp in Harajuku, Tokyo regarding 10 times when he was a junior. Around 1981, Higashiyama and his friends did not have a private room, so they were sleeping together on futons.
New president Noriyuki Higashiyama (right) and Johnny’s Island president Yoshihiko Inohara hold a press conference in Tokyo on September 7th.
According to the man, Johnny came into the futon one night, and the junior member who was sleeping on his left yelled, “President, stop!” Johnny then came between him and Higashiyama, who was sleeping on the right side of the man, and attacked him. He had heard rumors from the other members, so he tightened the laces of his pants and resisted them pulling them down. Johnny reportedly whispered in her ear many times, saying things like “You’re so cute.”
The man said, “Mr. Higashiyama must have known that Mr. Johnny was trying to attack him, just as he heard the person next to him say, “President, please stop.”
◆Three members of the boys squad who were with him disappeared from the room that night.
When the man was 17 years old, he was playing video game consoles in the living room of his training camp when, at a certain time in the evening, three members of the boy’s team he was with disappeared from the room. As I was thinking, “Oh, where did everyone go?” Mr. Johnny showed up and sexually assaulted me.
“I was shocked. The training camp was fun and interesting, like a school trip, but following the damage occurred, I was so shocked that I didn’t want to go. Now that I think regarding it, the reason why all three boys were gone was… I think it was because he knew Mr. Johnny was going to attack him.”
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