Editorial

15:05 JST, June 26, 2025

Fuji Media Holdings Inc., which has been rocked by the sexual assault scandal involving former TV personality Masahiro Nakai, has received shareholder approval for its new management structure.

The road to restoring trust in the company remains steep. The company needs to take thorough measures to prevent a recurrence of a similar incident and work to urgently improve its corporate value.

Fuji Media Holdings, the parent company of Fuji Television Network Inc., held its annual general shareholders meeting, where all 11 candidates proposed by the company for the board of directors were approved by a majority vote.

On the other hand, all 12 candidates proposed by U.S.-based Dalton Investments, which is an activist shareholder of the holdings company that strongly seeks reforms, were rejected. The candidates included Yoshitaka Kitao,........

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