FOCUS: Johnny's decades-long abuse coverup relied on cozy ties with media

Japan's top male talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. has acknowledged that its late founder Johnny Kitagawa sexually abused aspiring teenage pop singers for decades. But the question remains: how was he able to get away with it for so long?While an overconcentration of power within the agency's founding family has been cited as a major factor in the long-term coverup of the abuse, Japanese mainstream media also long turned a blind eye.A third-party body set up by the agency to investigate the scandal said in a report in August that it believed Japanese media refrained from reporting the …READ FULL ARTICLE