Johnny & Associates
On April 12, 2023, Kauan Okamoto held a press conference. He said that from the time started working at Johnny's Entertainment, at the age of 15,  until he left the company, he was abused  twenty times by Kitagawa. After this press conference, NHK reported on the abuse on April 13. This was the first television report on Kitagawa's sexual assault by a Japanese media. It was only broadcast for two minutes at 4 p.m. At that time of day, there were very few people watching television.