This is the “purity tax.” Female entertainers in Japan are legally adults but culturally treated as perpetual minors. Male idols face less scrutiny, though the 2023 exposé of Johnny Kitagawa—the late founder of Japan’s most powerful boy-band agency, posthumously found to have sexually abused hundreds of teenagers—revealed that the system protects predators as fiercely as it polices performers.
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