Johnny Kitagawa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johnny Kitagawa

Japanese businessman

Date of Birth: 23-Oct-1931

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Death: 09-Jul-2019

Profession: businessperson, entrepreneur, record producer

Nationality: Japan, United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Johnny Kitagawa

  • John Hiromu Kitagawa (??? ?, Kitagawa Hiromu, October 23, 1931 – July 9, 2019), known professionally as Johnny Kitagawa (???????, Jani Kitagawa), was a Japanese businessman and talent manager.
  • He was the founder and president of Johnny & Associates, a production agency for numerous popular boy bands in Japan.
  • Kitagawa assembled, produced and managed more than a dozen popular bands, including Tanokin Trio, Hey! Say! JUMP, SMAP, Arashi, Kanjani8, V6, NEWS and KAT-TUN.
  • Kitagawa's influence spread beyond music to the realms of theatre and television.
  • Regarded as one of the most powerful figures in the Japanese entertainment industry, he held a virtual monopoly on the creation of boy bands in Japan for more than 40 years.From 1988 to 2000, Kitagawa was the subject of a number of claims that he had taken advantage of his position to engage in improper sexual relationships with boys under contract to his talent agency.
  • Kitagawa denied these claims, and in 2002 was awarded an 8.8 million yen judgment against the magazine that had published such allegations.
  • An appeal by the magazine followed, resulting in a partial reversal of the judgment.
  • The Tokyo High Court reduced the damages to Â¥1.2 million, concluding that the reports of drinking and smoking were defamatory but that the allegations of sexual exploitation of adolescent boys by Johnny Kitagawa were true.
  • A 2004 appeal to the Supreme Court by Kitagawa was rejected.

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