Johnny & Associates to be renamed ‘Smile-Up’ to handle victim compensation, will create new fan-named company to manage artists + 478 victims come forward

At their last press conference about a month ago, Johnny & Associates announced that while they would be making changes in response to the report on founder Johnny Kitagawa’s sexual abuse, they would not be changing the name. However, recently in the follow-up press conference, they have backtracked on that after considerable backlash, deciding to …