Japan’s Smile-Up continues its compensation campaign for survivors of sexual abuse by disgraced Japanese talent agent Johnny Kitagawa, saying that as of 15 May, the Victim Relief Committee had received compensation claims from 1,027 people.

Of these, 564 people have been notified of compensation details; 557 have accepted the compensation and 552 of them have already received payment.

Claims from 222 people have been dismissed. 234 people have not yet responded to the committee, despite multiple follow-up attempts.