Four Corners: Predator (ABC TV Monday 10 April 2023)

What is Four Corners about Tonight?

Predator, tonight on Four Corners, takes a look at the underground sex scandal sweeping Japan. Johnny Kitagawa is revered as the patriarch of Japan’s entertainment industry.

More successful musicians, songs, and tours are attributed to him than to any other music executive in the world.

Kitagawa has been accused of sexually abusing young men who worked for his talent agency for decades, but this truth has been kept hidden in Japan for almost 50 years.

The Japanese media kept mostly mum even after the music mogul’s death in 2019 as to what actually occurred behind closed doors.

Mobeen Azhar, a BBC journalist, investigates the oppressive realities of being a J-pop idol, the impact Kitagawa had on the media, and the devastating ramifications of turning a blind eye.

In this documentary, the Japanese complicity in the atrocities and subsequent cover-ups is explored.

Predator is a BBC production.

When Is Four Corners On

The ABC news programme Four Corners airs every Monday at 8.30 pm. and is rebroadcast the following day at 1 p.m. and again at 11 p.m. You can also watch episodes of Four Corners on ABC iView.

Here is a sneak peak at the episode