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Johnny Kitagawa

1931 - 2019

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John Hiromu Kitagawa (Japanese name Hiromu Kitagawa; October 23, 1931 – July 9, 2019), known professionally as Johnny Kitagawa, was a Japanese business magnate, promoter and record producer. He was best known as the founder of Johnny & Associates, a talent agency for numerous popular boy bands in Japan. In 2023, after his death, a BBC documentary, Predator: The Secret Scandal of J-Pop, reignited discussion of allegations that he had taken advantage of his position to engage in improper sexual relationships with boys under contract to his talent agency. This led to an independent probe which concluded that Kitagawa had "repeated and widely" abused boys in his organizations since the 1970s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johnny Kitagawa is the 319th most popular businessperson (down from 162nd in 2019), the 3,829th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,782nd in 2019) and the 105th most popular American Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Johnny Kitagawa ranks 319 out of 847. Before him are Reggie Fils-Aimé, Maryana Iskander, Eric Schmidt, Hans Riegel, Edoardo Agnelli, and Guy de Rothschild. After him are Stefan Persson, Jorge Paulo Lemann, Isabella Beeton, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Clyde Cessna, and Julius Maggi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Johnny Kitagawa ranks 186. Before him are Umberto Lenzi, Heisuke Hironaka, Shintaro Katsu, Larry Silverstein, Atsuko Ikeda, and Rajko Kuzmanović. After him are Carl Brashear, William P. Clark Jr., Sergio Sebastiani, Lucio Urtubia, John Houghton, and Philip Baker Hall. Among people deceased in 2019, Johnny Kitagawa ranks 169. Before him are Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Goro Shimura, Luigi Colani, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Keith Flint, and José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez. After him are Claude Goretta, Pim Verbeek, Karin Balzer, Juice Wrld, Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, and George Hilton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Johnny Kitagawa ranks 3,829 out of 20,380. Before him are Terry Brooks (1944), Robert Davi (1953), Candice King (1987), Arthur Janov (1924), Mildred Dresselhaus (1930), and Cy Twombly (1928). After him are Captain Beefheart (1941), Carl Brashear (1931), Gerard Damiano (1928), Dee Wallace (1948), Kenny Loggins (1948), and Peter Strauss (1947).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United States

Among businesspeople born in United States, Johnny Kitagawa ranks 105. Before him are Kirk Kerkorian (1917), John C. Bogle (1929), Katharine Graham (1917), Larry Silverstein (1931), Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961), and Eric Schmidt (1955). After him are Clyde Cessna (1879), James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841), Mike Markkula (1942), Carl Laemmle Jr. (1908), Linda Yaccarino (1963), and Bob Iger (1951).

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