The Great Survivor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2134622 |
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| Authors | Dougal Mcneill (0000-0003-0049-1770, corresponding author), David Mcneill (0000-0002-6892-5902) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1557466019015419 |
| OpenAlex | W4408501049 |
| Language | EN |
The late Johnny Kitagawa was Japan's most successful talent mogul, enabled by an entertainment industry that turned a blind eye to his serial sexual abuse of childrenAs might be expected, the death of Johnny Kitagawa from a stroke on July 9th was met with grief and apparently genuine affection in Japan's entertainment industry. Kitagawa (87) had, after all, helmed arguably the country's most powerful talent agency. Johnny & Associates had ignited the careers of some of the best-loved Japanese pop acts of the last five decades, among them Four Leaves, Tanokin Trio, Hikaru Genji, SMAP, TOKIO, Kinki Kids and V6. Yakumaru Hirohide, a former member of Shibugakitai, an eighties boy band managed by Kitagawa, said he had "cried all night" on hearing about his death - a not untypical reaction
Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Music History and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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