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In civil trials held in the 1970s, obscene acts were suggested but the boys denied anything was happening. .It was said the that people had been accused of harm or had almost been harmed. Some former members of the group (Koji Kita(北公次), Junya Hiramoto(平本淳也)) published books that included information about boys being raped. In 1999, the magazine Shukan Bunshun reported about people claiming there was sexual abuse by Kitagawa.