Two women have told Tokyo police that Matt, the 32-year-old model and TV personality, had nonconsensual sex with them, Bunshun Online reported on Oct 28, 2026. Three complaints were filed with the Metropolitan Police Department between 2024 and 2026, according to the report.
One of the women told the outlet she was filmed during the act. "It was truly humiliating," she said. Reporters approached Matt's father, former Yomiuri Giants pitcher Masumi Kuwata, and the two were questioned directly, the report says. Matt is known in Japan as a model and the son of Kuwata, with whom he has appeared in SoftBank commercials; he has more than 350,000 followers.
The allegations against Matt are among a run of entertainment-industry stories published by the weekly in 2025 and 2026, covering contract terminations, on-set abuse and a sexual-assault scandal that reached the upper levels of Fuji TV.
timelesz member arrested, then dropped
On Sept 19, 2026, police arrested Shuto Inomata, a 25-year-old member of the boy band timelesz, on suspicion of assaulting a woman. STARTO ENTERTAINMENT, his agency, canceled his contract on Oct 1, 2026.
The arrest followed a woman's shout of "I've been hit by my boyfriend!" outside a convenience store at night, according to the report. Police took Inomata into custody on suspicion of causing injury. A witness described the scene, and the agency had been concerned about his behavior toward women, the report says. His father and grandmother also spoke about him.
On Oct 15, 2026, the report covered what happened behind the seven-member apology press conference the group held after the contract was terminated. The same story described a letter Inomata wrote to his mother and what the report called his betrayal of fellow member Fuma Kikuchi.
Abuse claims on drama sets and at broadcasters
TBS has kept quiet about an injury suffered by an assistant director on the set of "VIVANT" season 2, the hit drama about a Japanese agent working abroad. The director, Katsuo Fukuzawa, 62, broke the assistant director's bone in an incident that required about a month to heal, according to the Sept 16, 2026 report. The network treated the matter as confidential, the report says.
At Nippon TV, Taichi Kokubun, 51, admitted to two incidents of indecent conduct during questioning on June 18, 2025, the outlet reported on Nov 26, 2025. Kokubun was summoned by the network and questioned by compliance staff and a lawyer. He described drinking alone in a hotel room with a female program staffer, the report says.
At Fuji TV, a veteran producer known for the show "Chidori no Ki Renchan" left the program over power harassment — the abuse of a superior's position — in December 2025, according to a Jan 7, 2026 report. A network source said the producer had been removed from tapings.
JO1 departure and the Nakai case
Sho Ohira, 26, left the boy band JO1 at the end of May 2026 and will leave the agency LAPONE Entertainment, the outlet reported on April 27, 2026. The report linked his departure to a relationship with a member of the group ME:I and said he had been weighing a return to activity.
The weekly's coverage of Masahiro Nakai and Fuji TV ran across several installments in 2025. A former TV host, Nakai was accused of sexual assault by a woman identified as X. A notice sent by her lawyer to Nakai's side carried the words "nonconsensual intercourse," according to an Aug 6, 2025 report. Nakai's side has said no sexual violence was confirmed.
Earlier installments described a barbecue party at which a Fuji TV programming executive led the woman to Nakai shortly before the incident, and reported that another woman said she too had been "offered up" by a network executive. Bunshun Online confronted the executive, who said Nakai's home was an easy place for gatherings. A third-party committee is investigating why the network did not report the woman's complaint to its compliance division and kept Nakai's programs on air, the report says.