A 35-year-old actress confronted undesirable sexual advances from presidents of not less than two of her leisure businesses, displaying that the Johnny & Associates Inc. sexual abuse scandal will not be an remoted case.

In the 2010s, her company’s president approached her, saying, “Since I first met you, I have thought you are a woman after my own heart.”

The lady had believed that the president, who was keen about selling her, was an individual she may depend on.

However, he grew to become violent and hit her within the eye when she rejected his advances.

After she moved to a different company, she was approached by its president and different individuals.

Predators demanded sexual intimacy in alternate for advancing her profession, profiting from the overwhelming hole in energy between them.

She even thought {that a} bodily relationship with a supervisor may be a given within the leisure business and puzzled if she was simply being naive.

Someone instructed her that she couldn’t survive within the commerce except she “likes” intercourse.

Today, nevertheless, she is assured that such managers are merely abusing their positions of affect.

Actress Megumi Morisaki stated the plague of sexual abuse within the business will not be restricted to the Johnny & Associates leisure company, which has admitted that its late founder, Johnny Kitagawa, had sexually abused boys below his administration over a long time.

Morisaki is the president of the Arts Workers Japan Association, which helps actions of actors, musicians and others within the arts and leisure world.

In a survey the affiliation carried out between February and May masking 245 actors, celebrities and others, 61.2 p.c stated they skilled harassment whereas on the job, and 21.5 p.c stated they’d witnessed or heard about harassment in opposition to others.

In a separate survey carried out final 12 months, 58.8 p.c of respondents who skilled harassment stated they had been focused by their superiors, seniors or managers.

A respondent stated she was raped after being instructed to obey the perpetrator’s calls for if she wished to work. 

Lawyer Hironori Takaki, who’s accustomed to authorized affairs within the leisure business, stated that employees within the business are vulnerable to harassment as a result of lopsided “supply and demand.”

While a restricted variety of leisure businesses can provide enticing alternatives, an amazing variety of expertise are searching for work, he stated.

Takaki additionally stated the difficulties for expertise in switching leisure businesses resulted in an enormous hole in energy between the 2 events.

In its report, a particular staff arrange by Johnny & Associates to analyze Kitagawa’s sexual abuse allegations additionally pointed to absolutely the energy {that a} well-known producer holds over celebrities as an element behind sexual violence within the leisure business.

“Given the lack of objective standards for becoming a star, aspiring celebrities have no other choice but to endure sexual abuse from a producer and others,” the report stated.

The movie business has taken a step to handle the issue after victims of sexual harassment spoke up in opposition to administrators and actors final 12 months following the worldwide #MeToo motion that began in Hollywood.

A gaggle of film studios formulated tips calling on firms to assign some extent individual liable for stopping harassment on every movie shoot and supply anti-harassment coaching for all employees members.

The group additionally created a system to test whether or not the rules had been being correctly applied.

Meanwhile, an official with a serious leisure company stated sexual and energy harassment ensuing from the connection between the ruler and the dominated can happen wherever and that it’s a mistake to say harassment is attributable to an issue distinctive to the leisure business.

Lawyer Kunitaka Kasai, who handles lawsuits involving the leisure business, stated harassment and violence within the business are available in many various kinds and that assist from outdoors the business is important for coping with them.

“An effective response may be expected if the central government and other authorities provide a consultation service covering the industry and introduce police, lawyers and other experts depending on the problems that victims face,” Kasai stated.

(This article was written by Haruto Hiraoka, Bunna Takizawa and Yohei Goto, a senior employees author.)