A TV Scandal Shows "Japan Inc." Is No Longer Okay With Sexual Misconducts

What the Fuji Television scandal says about changing tides in Japan

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May 02, 2025

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For decades, Japanese corporate culture has had a paradoxical relationship with celebrity misconduct—particularly when it comes to sexual assault. It has ignored it, dismissed it, and in some cases, quietly enabled it. But the scandal currently engulfing Fuji Television suggests something remarkable: Japan has changed.

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