The niche they carved out in the Japanese entertainment industry is now filled by popular idol groups like AKB48, Nogizaka46, and Momoiro Clover Z. But the idol industry has a dark side.

A former teen idol who says he was sexually abused by a talent industry mogul kept quiet about the activity so as not to alarm his parents, who were struggling to make a go of things in Japan ...

In her day job, the young Japanese woman is one of the seven members of the popular K-pop group Billlie. “I want to be a bridge between Japan and South Korea,” Tsuki said. Her radio program ...

Nakai is a former member of the now-defunct Japanese pop idol group SMAP. The scandal surfaced in December when weekly magazines reported that the 52-year-old celebrity got into "trouble" with the ...

Fast forward and I am making my way up the escalator to the Samsung Hall at SM Aura Premier, and I could already make out the many fans of ‘Phantom Siita’ the very Japanese Idol group formed ...