#259: The “Godfather Of J-Pop” Assaulted Male Trainees In Exchange For Making Them Stars (Johnny Kitagawa)
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How to Survive Sexual Abuse in Japan
"If it happened to me I would have just accepted it. No one really dug deep into it, everyone knew that it was just something that you have to go through as part of J&A but nobody really cared too much about it," she says. "There were rumors that if you accepted Johnny's advances you would be famous so I don't think you can blame either side." The BBC doc did interview Nabuki, a therapist who specializes in helping male survivors of sexual abuse. He said: It can be self-protection in some ways to deny that it was abuse. In order to survive you don't want to fight the abuse.
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