Turning Japanese: The seedy underworld of music moguls

Late last year the almost impenetrable iron curtain guarding the upper echelons of Japan's shady pop industry was momentarily broached, when the super-rich and super-smug ("I've got so much money I can't keep track of it") producer Tetsuya Komuro was arrested on suspicion of defrauding an investor of ¥500m. In the months since, he's largely been let off the hook, after promising to pay the money back and doing much conciliatory bowing to prove he is really sorry and won't do it again … ...

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