boy bands from other agencies. On July 18, 2019, Johnny & Associates was investigated by the Fair Trading Commission for potentially violating the Anti-Monopoly Act due to accusations of pressuring the media to reduce coverage on Atarashii Chizu, a group made up of former SMAP members Shingo Katori, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, and Goro Inagaki. Despite lack of hard evidence, Johnny & Associates received a warning. Current artists Recording artists Groups TOKIO KinKi Kids Arashi NEWS Kanjani Eight KAT-TUN Hey! Say! JUMP Kis-My-Ft2 Sexy Zone A.B.C-Z Johnny's West King & Prince SixTones Snow Man Naniwa Danshi Travis Japan Sub-units Busaiku Soloists Takuya Kimura Junichi Okada Ken Miyake Yuma Nakayama Actors/Entertainers Actors Noriyuki Higashiyama Takuya Kimura (until May 2, 2023) Junichi Okada Toma Ikuta Hiroki Uchi Shunsuke Kazama Keito Okamoto Entertainers Yudai Tatsumi Trainees Trainees are known as Johnny's Jr. and have traditionally performed on Johnny's related variety shows and as backup dancers for the agency's groups. However, in recent years select Junior groups have taken on levels of visibility akin to mainstream senior acts, including national commercial sponsorships, solo concerts, national tours, and starring film and television roles. Notable trainees HiHi Jets (ja) - formed 2015 Bi Shonen (美 少年) - formed 2016 7 Men Samurai - formed 2018 Shonen Ninja (少年忍者) - formed 2018 Jr. SP (ja) - formed 2018 IMPACTors (ja) - formed 2020 Go!Go!Kids (ja)- formed 2022 Lil Kansai (Lil かんさい) - formed 2019 Ae! group (Aぇ! group) - formed 2019 Boys be (ja) - formed 2020 AmBitious (ja)- formed 2021 Former artists Former recording artists Johnnys (1962-1967) Hiromi Maie (1962–?) Osami Iino (1962–1968) Ryo Nakatani (1962–?) Teruhiko Aoi (1962–1967) Four Leaves (1968-1976) Kōji Kita (1966–1989) Takashi Aoyama (1966–1978) Toshio Egi (1966–?) Masao Orimo (1966–?) Eiji Nagata (1966–1977) Hiromi Go (1971–1975) Teruyoshi Aoi (1973–1976) Jo Toyokawa (1975–1979) Little Gang (1975-1976) Mayo Kawasaki (1976–1989) Masahiko Kondō (1977–2021) Toshihiko Tahara (1979–1994) Ippei Hikaru (1980–1985) Shibugakitai (1982-1988) Hirohide Yakumaru Toshikazu Fukawa Masahiro Motoki Shigeyuki Nakamura (1982–1993) The Good-Bye (1983-1990) Hikaru Genji (1987-1995) Mikio Ôsawa (1982–1994) Kazumi Morohoshi (1984–1994) Hiroyuki Satō (1983–1994) Junichi Yamamoto (1986–2002) Akira Akasaka (1987–2007) SMAP (1990-2016) Katsuyuki Mori (1987–1996) Goro Inagaki (1987–2016) Tsuyoshi Kusanagi (1987–2016) Shingo Katori (1988–2016) Masahiro Nakai (1986-2020) Otokogumi (1988-1993) Shoji Narita Kazuya Takahashi Koyo Maeda Ninja (1990-1997) TOKIO Hiromu Kojima (1990–1994) Tatsuya Yamaguchi (1989–2018) Tomoya Nagase (1992–2021) V6 (1995-2021) Go Morita (1995–2021) Coming Century (1995–2021) Tackey & Tsubasa (2002-2018) Tsubasa Imai (1995–2018) NEWS Hironori Kusano